K-12 Education

A child looks at DJI's Phantom 3 drone at their first flagship store in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China December 20, 2015. Chinese drone developers are racking up an impressive list of aerial solutions for a growing variety of demands, from police surveillance to agricultural mapping and traffic management. Already well established as a world leader in drone manufacturing, China is slowly emerging as a world-class innovator, not just a duplicator of foreign designs. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu - GF10000272196

I moved a drone with my mind. Soon your students will too.

Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, March 8, 2019

Teacher Jenna Rosenberg speaks to her first grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9320AA101

The diversity gap for public school teachers is actually growing across generations

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Thursday, March 7, 2019

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E91H00RI01

The opportunities and risks of K-12 student placement algorithms

Matt Kasman and Jon Valant

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Newark Prep Charter School students listen to academic coach, Robbie Garland, while taking part in an advisory session at the school in Newark, New Jersey

Research and reflections on African-Americans’ experiences in schools

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Elementary school children are seen in a classroom on the first day of class in the new school year in Nice, September 3, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE - Tags: EDUCATION) - PM1E99310WR01

New Education Department guidance on supplement-not-supplant: Sorry not sorry

Marguerite Roza

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks during an interview at City Hall in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Lott - RC1DE62B05F0

Chicago’s mayor sees through the fog on school autonomy

Friday, February 15, 2019

Students from a primary school read books inside a classroom on Ghoramara Island, India, November 16, 2018. Ghoramara Island, part of the Sundarbans delta on the Bay of Bengal, has nearly halved in size over the past two decades, according to village elders. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri SEARCH "CHOWDHURI COASTLINE" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC16F935BB30

Integrating 21st century skills into education systems: From rhetoric to reality

Ramya Vivekanandan

Thursday, February 14, 2019

Teachers, students and members of the community hold a rally in Civic Center Park as Denver public school teachers strike for a second day in Denver, Colorado, U.S., February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Michael Ciaglo - RC1DE9397C20

Denver teachers are next to take to the picket line

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Fifth-grade art class students wait expectantly for a visit from U.S. first lady Michelle Obama at Savoy School, one of eight schools selected last year for The Turnaround Arts Initiative at the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, May 24, 2013. According to the first lady's office, turnaround arts schools use the arts as a central part of their reform strategy, both to dramatically improve the culture and climate, and to bolster academic success in high poverty, traditionally underperforming schools. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION) - GM1E95P04IN01

New evidence of the benefits of arts education

Brian Kisida and Daniel H. Bowen

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Schoolchildren listen to a teacher as they study during a class in the Oudaya primary school in Rabat, September 15, 2015, at the start of the new school year in Morocco. Nearly three years after Taliban gunmen shot Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist last week urged world leaders gathered in New York to help millions more children go to school. World Teachers' Day falls on 5 October, a Unesco initiative highlighting the work of educators struggling to teach children amid intimidation in Pakistan, conflict in Syria or poverty in Vietnam. Even so, there have been some improvements: the number of children not attending primary school has plummeted to an estimated 57 million worldwide in 2015, the U.N. says, down from 100 million 15 years ago. Reuters photographers have documented learning around the world, from well-resourced schools to pupils crammed into corridors in the Philippines, on boats in Brazil or in crowded classrooms in Burundi. REUTERS/Youssef BoudlalPICTURE 40 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226473

To teach or not to teach? It’s a little more complicated than that

Monday, February 11, 2019