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Education Week
United States
Приєднався 15 січ 2008
Education Week is your source for compelling videos on K-12 education, including powerful stories about schools across the nation, news coverage, explainers, unique perspectives on education debates, and profiles of exemplary educators.
About Education Week:
Education Week (edweek.org) is America’s most trusted source of independent K-12 education news, analysis, and opinion, with comprehensive coverage of education policy and practice in print, on the web, in video, and via live and virtual events. Our work serves to raise the level of understanding and discourse about education among policymakers, school and district leaders, teachers, researchers, and the public. Education Week has been providing award-winning coverage of the field for over 35 years.
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About Education Week:
Education Week (edweek.org) is America’s most trusted source of independent K-12 education news, analysis, and opinion, with comprehensive coverage of education policy and practice in print, on the web, in video, and via live and virtual events. Our work serves to raise the level of understanding and discourse about education among policymakers, school and district leaders, teachers, researchers, and the public. Education Week has been providing award-winning coverage of the field for over 35 years.
Interested in licensing? Contact reprints@epe.org
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How a State Seal of Biliteracy Inspired This District to Teach a New Language
Переглядів 97День тому
The Karen language hasn’t been taught in schools anywhere in the world since the 1960s in Burma. The St. Paul public schools in Minnesota, however, have set out to change that. Karen, which is indigenous to southern Burma (now called Myanmar) and bordering regions of Thailand, is the home language of several families in the district. But while those who speak the language at home, known as heri...
Why Some Teachers Are Excited to Teach the 2024 Election
Переглядів 1032 дні тому
A collection of teachers spanning grade levels and subject matter who attended last week’s American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston shared how they’re planning to discuss the current election cycle and this summer’s series of unprecedented, historically significant events in their classrooms this fall.
Book Bans and Gun Control: 3 Minutes From Kamala Harris’ Speech to Teachers
Переглядів 1,9 тис.6 днів тому
Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the American Federation of Teachers at the union’s convention in Houston on July 25. She contrasted her party’s desire to ban assault weapons with book bans that have proliferated around the country at the urging of conservative community members. “Book bans in this year of our Lord 2024. Just think about it,” she told the crowd of about 3,500. “So we want...
What Educators Need to Know About AI’s Limits and Possibilities
Переглядів 2346 днів тому
Teachers and other educators are grappling with how to use artificial intelligence to help with student learning and staff workloads, while avoiding the technology’s pitfalls. Here, Education Week examines the role of AI in K-12 education.
This District Was Struggling to Find Teachers-So It Started Recruiting Abroad
Переглядів 17812 днів тому
Hutto Independent school district is one of the fastest growing districts in central Texas, with a new school expected to open in each of the next three years. To staff those schools, and meet the needs of their students, the district opted to recruit international teachers on J-1 visas at the beginning of the 2023-24 school year. Those teachers are filling some of the openings in the district’...
How This State Is Creating an Inclusive Experience for Special Education Students
Переглядів 1,2 тис.20 днів тому
After ranking 44th in the nation for inclusionary practices-defined by how many students with disabilities are learning alongside their general education peers-Washington state began working to change that trajectory. Here’s how it’s working to improve the experience of special education students in K-12, and the research behind its efforts.
What Happens When a K-12 District Leader Testifies Before Congress? Here’s One Leader’s Story
Переглядів 19823 дні тому
NYC Chancellor David Banks' blunt take on appearing before Congress and leading schools in divisive times.
Should Teachers Carry Guns? How Two Principals Answer This Question
Переглядів 14323 дні тому
In April, Tennessee became the 34th state to allow teachers to carry guns at school, joining a club that’s burgeoned in the last decade, after South Dakota became the first state in 2013 to enact legislation allowing educators to be armed. The strategy is controversial but increasingly popular with Republican-led state legislatures as schools continue to grapple with the threat-and reality-of g...
11 Million Students Live in Poverty. How Educators Can Teach The Issue
Переглядів 19029 днів тому
In America, 16.3 percent of children are growing up in poverty. This puts them at greater risk for a number of challenges that affect their lives inside and outside the school building, including higher absenteeism and dropout rates, and a greater likelihood for developmental delays. In his book, Poverty, By America, Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the state of pover...
School Cellphone Ban Is Critical for ‘Addicted’ Students, NYC Chancellor Says
Переглядів 346Місяць тому
The nation’s largest school district is poised to ban students’ cellphone use during the school day a few months into the 2024-25 school year, providing a major boost to a national movement to keep students away from their smartphones so they can focus on learning and in-person interactions with classmates and teachers. Here, New York City public schools Chancellor David Banks discusses the plan.
How AI Can Save Teachers Time, According to a Google Executive
Переглядів 391Місяць тому
The head of education impact for Google, Jennie Magiera, says introducing artificial intelligence can help solve some of the problems schools are facing right now, but recognizes its limitations too. Education Week spoke with Magiera at this week’s International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in Denver, Colo., where she shared her thoughts on the technology, and its place...
'The Work Is Therapy': Principals Help Each Other Recover From School Shootings
Переглядів 117Місяць тому
The Principal Recovery Network is a club that no school leader wants to join. Yet when its members meet, they greet and joke with each other like family. “If people saw us together, and if they knew why we gather, they’d think there’s something wrong with us,” quipped Andy McGill, the assistant principal at the rural West Liberty-Salem High School in West Liberty, Ohio. In 2019, McGill came tog...
‘Students Never Forget': Principals Call for Help After School Shootings
Переглядів 170Місяць тому
On a bright and sunny day in mid-June, a group of 16 school leaders arrived at the U.S. Capitol with a sole objective: to garner more funds and resources to support schools that have experienced a school shooting. This group, the Principal Recovery Network, is uniquely poised to make these demands to legislators-each of them have experienced a school shooting, or the aftermath, on their campus....
Los Angeles Unified Is Banning Cellphones: A Board Member Explains Why and How
Переглядів 609Місяць тому
Los Angeles schools gave a major boost to the movement to ban cellphones in schools when the board of the second largest district in the country voted to do just that. But passing a resolution is only the first step for the Los Angeles Unified School District-the hard part of implementation comes next. Like other districts that have taken this step, the school district must figure out how to ad...
Students With Disabilities ‘Have Gotten Their Dignity Back’ at This High School
Переглядів 328Місяць тому
When students who have disabilities arrive at Monroe High School, they’ve often spent nearly a decade learning that their differences mean they’ll be taught separately from their peers who spend their days in general education classrooms. But that all changes when they start classes at Monroe High, northeast of Seattle, where school leaders have created a system in which all students learn in g...
Wow! I am a 41 year old mom of 3! 2 still in school and I admire what you did. I wish I could do that for my children.
Great video!
Excellent video!
Excellent video!
it TAKES ALMOST 11 MINUTES TO GET TO THE LECTURE PART
awesome video
She’s a moron.
DRESS CODES AND LUNCHES??!!?? What a bunch of TOTAL BS! When you have compulsory education where students are required by law to attend--then told to sit down and shut up to listen to a government employee lecture -- learn/retain the info and be tested on it -- This is as close to slavery of thinking as you can get. This interview is like interviewing the slave owners about slavery in 1850! They haven't a clue :-(