Schoolteachers routinely report feeling ill-prepared to guide their students through difficult conversations about high-profile violent events.
Classmates in grades 3, 4 and 5 are more likely to come from diverse economic backgrounds than their schoolmates in grades 6, 7 and 8.
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In middle school classes, students from lower-income families tended to be concentrated in just a few classrooms, new research from North Carolina has found.
A student listens to a U.S. history lesson in a New Mexico classroom.
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From the founding of the U.S., public schools were seen as a key way to develop an informed, active citizenry. Social studies educators struggle to achieve that goal today.
Misbehavior increases the risk of being bullied.
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Interviews and surveys with hundreds of teachers and school administrators reveal the effect of persistent staffing shortages on school personnel – and on students.
Different types of data can influence how parents select schools for their children.
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Plantation museums could be ideal venues for students to learn about the nation’s history of race-based slavery, but only if they stop whitewashing the horrors of what took place on their grounds.
About 30 million students eat school lunches daily.
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Despite signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced mass departures from the teaching profession.
Teachers with traditional certifications are more likely to continue teaching than those with alternative certifications.
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Teachers who take alternative routes to being certified tend to leave their positions sooner than educators who go through colleges of education, new research shows.
Giving kids time outside for physical and social activity helps them get ready to learn.
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The pandemic and shifts to virtual learning have set many children back academically. The setbacks can be particularly challenging for children with disabilities, but recovery is possible.
Substitute teachers, like this one in Indiana in 2020, are in short supply during the pandemic.
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School districts across the US are starting to pay subs more and make it easier to become a sub – in an effort to keep classrooms operating despite large numbers of staff out sick.
Joy Harrison, a second grade teacher in Oakland, California, helps a student.
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As schools across the US begin to teach students and staff how to prevent human trafficking, a scholar explains five key elements of anti-trafficking education.
Students and teachers alike struggle with digital connectivity – but education is just one area in which technology matters.
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School board elections are becoming increasingly fractious and political events, with candidates focused on one or two issues. An education policy scholar explains why that’s a worrisome trend.
Sports trading cards can be used as teaching tools.
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