Educated Reporter
Read practical advice from EWA staffers and guest journalists from around the United States about all things education.
Educated Reporter
The Council of the Great City Schools reported that students take an average of 113 high-stakes tests between prekindergarten and 12th grade....
Urban education leaders crammed a marathon of Chicago’s public education woes and wonders into a 45-minute session (more akin to a 5K race) at the Education W...
Why would young people today want to become teachers? Or perhaps more importantly, why wouldn’t they?...
In the conversations surrounding low-income students’ access to college, there’s one statistic that Harold Levy finds most worrisome: Among those students w...
Preschool advocates have had a tough time convincing lawmakers that spending money in the earliest years of a child’s education has a long-term payoff....
The shift from high school to college or the workforce is harrowing enough, but for the 6 million students diagnosed with a disability, the stakes are higher an...
If teachers and principals want students on center stage in their classrooms, they’ll first have to do a lot of work backstage....
What’s most notable about the Chicago kindergarten class where assistant teacher Nichelle Bell is temporarily in charge is what is not happening....
Allen Turner recently recalled the day his grade school teacher said it was time to learn about the U.S. Constitution, beginning with its famous preamble. But T...
