There were 400 vocational or career and technical high schools in the 2024-2025 school year that enrolled significant numbers of students as their primary institution, according to a Big Local News/Hechinger Report analysis of U.S.
A “brain boost” is backed by research showing that students in academic classrooms need a moment to get up and move their whole bodies, says Will Westphal, physical education teacher at both Taft Elementary, which
Summer isn’t a break — for the families school districts most need to engage with, summer is the time to act, writes Piper Bognar, Superintendent of the Van Dyke Public Schools in Warren, Michigan, in
Most teens today (84%) have negative attitudes toward the news media, describing it as “fake,” “false” and “lies,” according to a survey by the News Literacy Project and reported in Education Week. This distrust affects
Educators at all grade levels are using food to teach science lessons employing hands-on approaches, according to an article in K-12 Dive. Three examples: 1) In St. James Public Schools in Minnesota, health teacher Steve Chapin
Cellphone bans improve discipline over time, but academic impacts are limited, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research paper cited in a K-12 Dive article. Restrictions had little impact on attendance, attention and perceived
Teachers will rely on their own communications with and observations of their students far more than quizzes or test scores to determine if they had a successful school year, according to a survey cited in
Teachers are constantly taking on new responsibilities, according to an Education Week article. A typical teacher works about 54 hours a week, with just under half of that time devoted to directly teaching students, according
AI assistants can support teachers to do their best work, writes Jeremy Caplan, director of teaching and learning at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, in an essay in The 74. AI assistants can help
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