1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1053+ words) Classroom routines, assuming they are reasonable and well thought out, can help students and teachers alike. Today's post begins a short series in which educators share those ones that work best in their classrooms and why. You might also be…...

3+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (500+ words) Alarmed by stubborn patterns of persistent student absences, state lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills aiming to make school attendance a priority. Legislators from both parties in 20 states have filed 49 bills related to school attendance and chronic absenteeism in their…...

3+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (686+ words) Here are six tips for planning school calendars with attendance in mind. It may seem like an oxymoron to give students more days off in hopes of building stronger attendance habits, but some districts are trying it. The aim is…...

3+ mon, 6+ hour ago  (627+ words) It is tough to bring students back to the classroom once chronic absenteeism rates begin to climb. As more districts struggle with historically high absenteeism, new research suggests they may need a more systemic approach to reengaging students. "It's not…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (174+ words) Join the Ed Week Research Center and our sponsor Power School as we examine the state of K-12 finance, based on insights from a survey of more than 1, 800 public and private school teachers and. .. Creative Approaches to K-12 Budget Realities Declining enrollment,…...

11+ mon, 4+ week ago  (878+ words) Several years ago, during a one-on-one conversation with an art teacher at the middle school where I was principal, I came to an unsettling realization. We were wrestling with the fact that our traditional way of grading was doing our…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (745+ words) The amount of homework teachers are assigning in many districts has declined over the past few years. And a deeper dive shows that educators in high-poverty school systems are less likely to give out those assignments to students than are…...

11+ hour, 7+ min ago  (1280+ words) It's a Monday morning in May here, and an unexpected heat wave makes the city feel like July. But neither the temperature nor the time of year has pushed this class of 4th graders at Central Elementary STREAM Academy into the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (291+ words) Students across the country, from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, Milwaukee, and Texas, have organized mass school walkouts to protest the violence and terror that federal immigration officers have inflicted on their families, neighbors and community members. The Trump-Vance administration…...

13+ hour, 26+ min ago  (617+ words) New York teachers can retire five years earlier under "Tier 6" pension reforms that passed Tuesday as part of the next state budget. The $557-million plan, negotiated between Gov. Kathy Hochul and the New York Legislature, will lower the retirement age…...