Education Week recorded the second-highest number of school shootings in 2024 since it started tracking the incidents in 2018 ...

Principals are middle managers, advice givers, and authority figures rolled into one. They seem to be everywhere all at once—welcoming students at dropoff, analyzing student data in their offices, ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100, is best known in education for overseeing the creation of a federal department of education. But his long life was full of intersections with ...

The 39th president helped create the U.S. Department of Education. He had also been a school board member and an education-minded governor.

The Biden administration plans to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Trump from retooling them to ...

Here are the five most popular stories that Education Week published in 2024 about AI in schools.

Some teachers don’t think slang is distracting, even going as far in some cases to ban it from the classroom . But, as Jill ...

A lot happened with the nation’s growing English-learner population in 2024. Here's a look, and a preview of the year ahead.

K-12 enrollment is dropping, funding is lagging economic growth, and other takeaways from newly available data.

Educators on social media had lots to say about the lawsuit filed against the creators of popular reading programs.

Instead of viewing chaotic online humor as a problem to solve, educators should embrace it as an opportunity to connect.

“There’s a bomb threat,” a voice says. “Get out of the building now.” We do.