Faces of the National Spelling Bee – Photo Gallery
Karthik Nemmani, 14, from McKinney, Texas, is presented with the Scripps National Spelling Bee trophy by Adam Symson, president and CEO, E.W. Scripps Company, after he won the bee in Oxon Hill, Md., on...
View ArticleQuality Counts: A Look at Schools in Wyoming and Vermont – Photo Gallery
Shoshoni Schools, a $49 million facility in Shoshoni, Wyo., serves approximately 380 students in prekindergarten through the 12th grade. –Amber Baesler/AP for Education Week States face different...
View ArticleMortar Board Hopes, Dreams and Humor — Photo Gallery
As the 2017-18 school year comes to a close, high school graduates around the country expressed a variety of views and feelings through their mortar board art. Photo editors at Education Week took to...
View ArticleIn a Grieving Texas Town, a Class Reunion Becomes Something More – Photo Gallery
Guests at a reunion of Santa Fe High School alumni walk by the words “SF Strong” on their way to the fundraiser event at Galveston County Fairgrounds last week in Santa Fe, Texas. –Marie D. De...
View ArticleTackling Football and the Flute — Photo Gallery
Dressed in her shoulder pads and jersey, 8th grader Julie Michael, 13, holds her flute before playing the national anthem with the marching band at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey, Fla....
View ArticleA Class of One at Rural Wyoming School — Photo Gallery
Corinne Gaby prepares to ride her horse, Little Red, on the Notch Peak Ranch in rural Albany County, Wyo. Corinne often rides her horse to school. Photos by Shannon Broderick/Laramie Boomerang via AP...
View ArticleEducation Week’s Photos of the Year for 2018 — Photo Gallery
Parkland. Santa Fe. Teacher walkouts and teacher strikes. 2018 was a year of unspeakable tragedy and passionate political action in the pre-K-12 education world. But it was also a time of learning,...
View ArticleWhat It Felt Like to Be at the Los Angeles Teacher Strike: A Reporter’s...
Thousands of teachers rallied through downtown Los Angeles to demand higher pay, more support staff, and smaller classes. UPDATED Education Week reporter Catherine Gewertz and photographer Morgan...
View ArticleTeachers Show off their #BlackHistoryBookShelf “Shelfies”
For Black History Month, we called on teachers and librarians to send in pictures of the books and resources they used to celebrate the month. Educators flooded the #BlackHistoryBookshelf hashtag with...
View ArticleThousands of Teachers March on Maryland’s Capital
By Kaitlyn Dolan for Education Week On Monday, thousands of educators and advocates, clad in red, gathered in Annapolis, Md., to raise concerns about equity, counseling, teacher pay, school funding,...
View ArticleStudents Across the World Demand Climate Action
By Kaitlyn Dolan On Friday, March 15, youth across the world gathered to call attention to climate change and demand action from their respective governments.
View ArticleTeacher Keeps Up Long Tradition of Hatching Chicks With Kindergartners
Cynthia Christopher’s kindergarten class receives chicken eggs to hatch at Stonehurst Magnet School in Sun Valley, Calif. By Meg Oliphant When I think of the Los Angeles Unified School District, I...
View ArticleWhat Does Digital Literacy Look Like in North Dakota
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View ArticleOne Student’s Day at an Elite Public High School
Chicago’s selective enrollment high schools come closer to reflecting the diversity of the community than elite, admissions-based high schools in other big cities. We followed one student through her...
View ArticleA Look at Graduation in America
More than 3.5 million students were expected to graduate from American high schools this spring, according to federal data. This gallery captures how some of them celebrated in communities around the...
View ArticleStudents Become ‘Citizen Scientists’ to Conduct Research on Bugs
Citizen science is a method of involving students and community members in scientific research and exploration using the same parameters as professional scientists. During the Huron River Watershed...
View ArticleTeaching Math Through Tiny Houses
Photos by Whitney Curtis Sophomore Caleb Caraker, 16, attaches plywood sheathing to the roof of a tiny house on Friday, March 22, 2019 at Battle High School in Columbia, Mo. Students in a combined...
View ArticleSpecial Education in Flint, Years After the Water Crisis
By Kaitlyn Dolan Images by Brittany Greeson In the wake of the Flint, Mich., water crisis, the city has new concerns — how do they serve the influx of students in the special education system that may...
View ArticleYoung People Gather Across the Globe in Climate Strike
Gallery By Kaitlyn Dolan Young people across the globe marched, protested, and signaled calls to action today to urge leaders to address climate change. Here’s what it looked like: Lola Jones holds a...
View ArticleOut for Weeks: Schools and Students Amid Coronavirus
An unprecedented number of schools have been ordered to shut down in the midst of fears surrounding the novel coronavirus. Schools have been grappling with big questions around interrupted learning,...
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