K-12 Education

Elementary school children are seen in a classroom on the first day of class in the new school year in Nice, September 3, 2013.

Can states lean on diverse teacher recruitment to stem teacher shortages?

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Students attend class at the Headstart private school in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 9, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz SEARCH "FIROUZ EDUCATION" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC19A8C65A60

The mysteries of communication: What does it take to really listen?

Nicoletta Di Blas and Esther Care

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Mia Moscoso plays on a slide at Riverside Park, which is located on land that had been filled with abandoned mills and decrepit buildings, in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island March 20, 2014. Public pressure, federal funding, data-driven policing and greater community organization are all prompting more experimentation around the U.S. with new ways to get at the roots of urban poverty and crime. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY REAL ESTATE) - GM1EA8U0XP801

Funding childhood poverty programs is key to social mobility

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Andres S. Bustamante, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Thursday, December 28, 2017

A Muslim girl learns to read the Koran at a madrassa, or religious school, during the holy month of Ramadan in the old quarters of Delhi July 31, 2013. REUTERS/Mansi Thapliyal (INDIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E97V1E3P01

A review of education in 2017

Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, December 21, 2017

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish pupils discuss the Bible at the Nahardea school in Nehalim near Tel Aviv January 26, 2010. Inside a modern economy renowned for its innovative high-tech sector, they see a growing problem. Critics say the Jewish pupils who attend ultra-Orthodox schools can recite chapter and verse of the Bible, but most can't spell the name of their largest Arab neighbour, Egypt, in English. Picture taken January 26, 2010. To match feature ISRAEL/EDUCATION REUTERS/Darren Whiteside (ISRAEL - Tags: EDUCATION RELIGION) - GM1E62G19C901

Complementary strategies for teaching collaboration and critical thinking skills

Tara Barnett, Ben Lawless, Helyn Kim, and Alvin Vista

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Trainee math teacher Shaw from Teach for America program teaches class at George Washington Carver Middle School in Los Angeles

It is time for a ‘Rooney rule’ for teachers

Cynthia (CC) DuBois and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Monday, December 11, 2017

Students listen while classmates make presentation to group of visiting venture capitalists during Technology Entrepreneurship class in Stanford

Teaching about economic inequality is political, but not the way you think

Joel Westheimer and John Rogers

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

High school students from the City on a Hill Charter Public School, including Tacra McNeil Davi (C), playing the role of U.S. senators, cast a vote at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston, Massachusetts June 10, 2015. Opened in March, the institute was imagined by the late Democrat, who died in 2009, as a place that could rekindle lost respect for a stalled Senate. The Kennedy Institute also hosts the only full-scale replica of the U.S. Senate chamber, where school groups might be awed not only by the grandeur of the room, but by the potential of the people inside it to chart the nation's future. Picture taken June 10, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - GF10000124042

How do you teach critical thinking when the norm is not to question?

Loren Clarke and Esther Care

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

A Newark Prep Charter School student listens to math teacher, Faiza Sheikh (not pictured), give a lesson at the school in Newark, New Jersey

Discipline disparities and discrimination in schools

Nathan Barrett, Andrew McEachin, Jonathan Mills, and Jon Valant

Monday, November 20, 2017

Teachers Carla Smith and Laura Johnson pose for a picture with their third grade class at Jesse Sherwood Elementary School in the Englewood neighbourhood in Chicago, Illinois, United States, September 23, 2015. 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/Jim Young PICTURE 31 OF 47 FOR WIDER IMAGE STORY "SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD"SEARCH "EDUCATORS SCHOOLS" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000226462

How school district boundaries can create more segregated schools

Richard V. Reeves, Nathan Joo, and Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst

Monday, November 20, 2017