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Special Report Different Subjects, Different 69´«Ã½
How can teachers help students master each content area's specialized vocabulary, tools, and ways of communicating?
October 28, 2024
Illustration of student with multiple books.
Dan Page for Education Week
Special Report Understanding Learning Differences
This special report explores neurodiversity and some key issues shaping the experiences of students with learning and thinking differences.
October 7, 2024
Silhouettes of diverse students, each growing a different type of plant. Neurodiversity represented by biodiversity.
Nix Ren for Education Week
Special Report Competency-Based Education: What It Is and How to Pull It Off
Competency-based education can upend more than a century of tradition in K-12 schools. How schools have made it work.
September 16, 2024
Collage illustration of the backs of two students wearing bookbags and walking over a large computer keyboard with collage pieces like sky, numbers, checkmarks, letters, lines, and shapes.
Nadia Radic for Education Week
Special Report STEM Teachers: How to Find the Good Ones and Keep Them
See how schools are making progress, and where they are falling short, in addressing chronic teacher shortages in STEM fields.
September 9, 2024
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Collage by Laura Baker/Education Week with Getty and Canva
Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas for Upending Polarization
Educators feel divisions in their classrooms, schools, and districts. Research—and history—can explain the causes and offer solutions.
August 26, 2024
People come together together from both sides of the chasm between a split public school
Eva Vázquez for Education Week
Special Report Motivating All 69´«Ã½ to Be STEM Problem Solvers
Motivating students in STEM-related classes can be difficult. But competency and confidence in STEM subjects is important for everyone.
May 28, 2024
Photo illustration of teen girl working on soldering board.
F. Sheehan for Education Week + iStock / Getty Images Plus
Special Report Special Education: Adapting to Challenging Realities
Exploring how special education services are adapting to unprecedented challenges and opportunities in education, from teacher shortages to technological advancements.
May 13, 2024
Student standing in front of a school that's distorted, hinting at changing realities.
Nicole Xu for Education Week
Special Report Relationships Matter: Building Strong Student-School Connections
More students on track, more students at school, better behavior. See how schools are harnessing the power of student relationships.
April 14, 2024
69´«Ã½ at Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Woodinville, Wash., play during recess on April 2, 2024. 69´«Ã½ have access to cards with images and words on them so all students, including those who do not speak, can communicate on the playground.
69´«Ã½ at Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Woodinville, Wash., play during recess on April 2, 2024. 69´«Ã½ have access to cards with images and words on them so all students, including those who do not speak, can communicate on the playground.
Meron Menghistab for Education Week
Special Report Technology & Student Wellness: How Tech, SEL, and Mental Health Are Now Linked
See how schools are trying to put student wellness front and center to help kids navigate a world in which social media and AI are all around them.
March 25, 2024
Custom illustration of a young female student in a meditative pose floating above a cell phone. She is surrounded by floating books and wide range of emotions reflected by different emojis. Digital / techie textures applied to the background.
Taylor Callery for Education Week
Special Report 69´«Ã½ Are Using AI. But Are They on the Right Track?
See Education Week's roadmap for how to navigate the rising role of artificial intelligence in K-12 education.
February 19, 2024
A person and a robot study a giant cylinder filled with AI elements
Kathleen Fu for Education Week
Special Report 69´«Ã½ to Understand: Unlocking the Elements of Comprehension
69´«Ã½ comprehension is a complex element of the "science of reading." Learn how schools can foster students’ ability to make sense of texts.
January 15, 2024
First grade students read over a story they crafted together in Megan Gose’s classroom at Moorsbridge Elementary School in Portage, Mich., on Nov. 29, 2023.
First grade students read over a story they crafted together in Megan Gose’s classroom at Moorsbridge Elementary School in Portage, Mich., on Nov. 29, 2023.
Emily Elconin for Education Week
Special Report Strategies for Building a Diverse Staff
Delve into the link between diverse staff and students’ academic performance and explore strategies to recruit and retain diverse staff.
December 4, 2023
Educators listen to Rose Chu's presentation at the Edifying, Elevating, and Uplifting Teachers of Color conference in Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 20, 2023.
Educators listen to Rose Chu's presentation at the Edifying, Elevating, and Uplifting Teachers of Color conference in Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 20, 2023.
Andrea Ellen Reed for Education Week

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