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'Jeduca,' new association for Brazil's education journalists, kicks off...

Equity in education and the barriers to accomplishing it, from segregation to school funding to teacher quality, are the meat and potatoes of education reportin...

Though students of color now make up the majority of those enrolled in the nation’s public schools, 82 percent of public school teachers are white, according ...

If there’s been one constant over the last decade in terms of teacher evaluation policies in the United States, it’s been change....

Not long ago, a student who got into a fight at school would likely face an automatic suspension. Now, in schools across the country, that student might be back...

As part of an October EWA seminar on the teaching profession, a group of journalists traveled to the Woodlawn campus of the UChicago charter schools network, to...

What was the big takeaway for education in the 2018 elections? Sorry if this disappoints, but there just doesn’t appear to be a clear, simple story to tell. I...

There is growing interest in the role schools can and should play in fostering social and emotional learning....

Journalists from across the Great Lakes region and the U.S. gathered in Chicago Oct. 18-19 to learn more about the teaching profession during a time of transiti...