Teachers have faced escalating verbal and physical aggression since schools reopened following the pandemic, and a threatening school climate makes it both harder to retain teachers and heightens staff stress and anxiety, according an Education
Most educators expect student behavior to be a major challenge in the 2026-27 school year, according to an Education Week article. “Student [mis]behavior has increased significantly over the years,” says a district-level administrator from Georgia.
Eighteen percent of K-12 public teachers say they plan to leave at the end of this school year, roughly flat from last year and 5% less than those who planned to leave in 2022-23, according
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
A new study based on evaluations of 25,000 novice teachers in Tennessee finds the best predictor of a new teacher’s effectiveness and likelihood to remain in the profession is how quickly they learn classroom management skills, including
A recent study from researchers at Harvard University, the University of Maryland College Park, and Stanford University analyzed more than 1,600 transcripts of 4th and 5th grade math lessons from the National Center for Teacher Effectiveness Transcript Dataset,
For the past three years, teachers have cited student misbehavior as one the top causes of low morale in Education Week’s State of Teaching Project. More than 1 in 3 teachers reported student behavior was “a
A recent Education Week survey found 64 percent of teachers report classroom behavior has gotten worse in the past year, according to an article in The Hill. Other survey findings: Smaller class sizes are the most oft-cited
A new analysis of data from the first half of the 2025-2026 school year issued in March shows that an intervention used by a group of school districts across the county has boosted attendance, while progress fighting
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