Education

Teacher Audrey Benes speaks to her kindergarten class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois

Mountain West states face growing teacher diversity gaps

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Children sit in a classroom before Prince Harry arrives for a tour of Holy Trinity Primary school during his official visit to Codrington, Barbuda, November 22, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - S1AEUOJGFBAA

WATCH: Generating new evidence to scale quality education interventions

Patrick Hannahan

Monday, December 17, 2018

Students arrive for school in Mahnomen school district in Mahnomen, Minnesota

Want more diverse teachers in more places? Start with diverse principals

Friday, December 14, 2018

Thainara Santos, 22, conducts a lesson with her pupils in a classroom at Sao Jose school in Morro Do Veridiano, Belagua Municipality, Maranhao state, Brazil, October 10, 2018. Picture taken October 10, 2018. According to the 2015 National Household Sample Survey (Pnad), 2.8 million children and adolescents aged 4 to 17 are out of school. More than half (53 percent) come from households whose income per capita does not exceed half the minimum wage, a value of 477 reais (~$123 USD). While Brazil is in the top ten economies in the world, there are still millions of people in the northeast of the country who are in extreme poverty. REUTERS/Nacho Doce - RC15CA4A30B0

The use of 21st century skills assessment data: National and global perspectives

Ross Turner, Claire Scoular, and Alvin Vista

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Youths take part in a National School Walkout anti-gun march in New York City, New York, U.S., April 20, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC129FFE5BA0

To make schools safer, focus on community—not guns

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Students walk in the courtyard of the Law school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S., September 20, 2018. Picture taken on September 20, 2018. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook - RC12527F9EE0

College promise programs may need time to mature for full impact

Jennifer Iriti and Lindsay C. Page

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard speaks with Disney II Elementary School principal Bogdana Chkoumbova in Chicago, September 26, 2011. Disney is one of 13 Chicago public schools which have decided to be early adopters of a plan to add 90 minutes to the school day, a scheme pushed hard by new Mayor Rahm Emanuel who says it is necessary to improve the city's K-12 education. Picture taken September 26, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E79T06IA01

School leadership: An untapped opportunity to draw young people of color into teaching

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Monday, November 26, 2018

Refugee schoolchildren receive their new books on the first day of the new school year at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan, September 1, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - S1AETYUGDXAA

Monitoring for 21st century skills

Hoda Jaberian, Alvin Vista, and Esther Care

Monday, November 26, 2018

Students sit for a university entrance examination at a lecture hall in the Andalusian capital of Seville, southern Spain, June 16, 2015. Students in Spain must pass the exam after completing secondary school in order to gain access to university. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo - GF10000129149

Beyond the midterms: Helping students overcome the impact of No Child Left Behind

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Laurence Steinberg

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Students use a mathematics teaching robot Ovobot during their lesson at the school in Tampere, Finland March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Attila Cser - RC1639E025C0

The robots are coming to school: Now what?

Alina von Davier

Friday, November 16, 2018