Education Week

Fostering STEM skills in young children is the best way to ensure that the United States remains competitive in a global economy, writes JD Chesloff.

Done right, evaluation policy can help teachers learn and improve, Angela Minnici and Ellen Behrstock-Sherratt write.

The battle underscores the high financial stakes for companies attempting to secure the rights to operate statewide school information systems.

After-school programs play a vital, if sometimes overlooked, role in STEM learning, Anita Krishnamurthi writes.

The president's call for "qualified" teachers stirs questions about the level of education that would be required to teach preschool.

A group of California school districts want flexibility under No Child Left Behind waivers now granted only to states.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on a provision of the Voting Rights Act that affects hundreds of school districts.

The vast majority of middle and high school teachers who are involved in high-level educational programs such as Advanced Placement and the National Writing Project say the Internet has become a key component of their teaching, a Pew survey says.

New research shows that while new teachers get better in their first few years on the job, their rankings don't change much.

Education Week followed U.S. Rep. John Kline, the head of the House education panel, to Minnesota, where his home-district educators told him what they think about the budget, waivers, and other issues.