K-12 Education

Alfonso Calderon (C), a student who was at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting, greets the police officer Brad Griesinger in front of the school, after the police security perimeter was removed, in Parkland, Florida, U.S., February 18, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins - RC1735C2F100

Does more policing make middle schools safer?

Kenneth Alonzo Anderson

Thursday, November 8, 2018

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump looks on as his choice for U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks at a "Thank You USA" tour rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. December 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar - RTX2UD61

New report on ESSA Accountability regulation examines agency responsiveness and rule durability

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Smoke rises from a coke factory in the village of Lukavac near Tuzla, Bosnia, October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Marko Djurica - RC1B6001ACA0

Climate confusion: Content and strategies, not controversy, are the biggest challenges for science teachers

David Devraj Kumar and Michael Hansen

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Students cross a street to enter for the first day of classes at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, U.S. August 15, 2018. REUTERS/Joe Skipper - RC1EFE4D0510

Schools need to educate our sons and daughters that no means no

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard (R) speaks with Disney II Elementary School principal Bogdana Chkoumbova (C) 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) - GM1E79T05FP01

Strong principals retain effective teachers—and don’t retain ineffective ones

Jason A. Grissom

Friday, September 28, 2018

Students attend political debate at the Cathedral School in Hamar, Norway September 1, 2017. Picture taken September 1, 2017. REUTERS/Lefteris Karagiannopoulos - RC1EC9E155C0

A counterintuitive proposal for improving education and healing America: Debate-centered instruction

Robert E. Litan

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Students listen to their teacher during a lesson at the Islamabad College for girls in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 13, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz SEARCH "FIROUZ EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC15B45AD320

Lessons from a girls’ education advocacy initiative in Pakistan

Thursday, September 6, 2018

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As kids go back to school, these are the education story lines experts are watching

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Teachers walk the picket line as they strike outside Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington September 9, 2015. Classes were cancelled for 53,000 students as Seattle teachers and support staff marched in picket lines on Wednesday on what was supposed to be the first day of school, waging their first such strike in three decades after contract talks between the school district and the teachers' union failed. REUTERS/Matt Mills McKnight - GF10000199643

Teachers aren’t getting younger, we’re just paying them less

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

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Millennial teachers of color will change public schools—if given the chance

Mary E. Dilworth

Friday, August 24, 2018