A collection of news stories from this week.

Students who were chronically absent or at risk of dropping out before the coronavirus outbreak are even more at risk now that schools are closed, experts say.

Philanthropies may be moving away from big new investments with a K-12 academic focus and toward areas like social and emotional learning and wraparound services, Grantmakers in Education finds.

The College Board's plan to score students' 'level of disadvantage' based on their schools and neighborhoods has some college counselors asking: Will wealthy parents try to game the system?

An EL Education school in Rochester, NY, shows that giving young children real problems to solve can instill the qualities students will need as adults.

Dig into what two leading Democratic presidential candidates have to say in their platforms about charter schools with Education Week's detailed analysis.

Two high school softball coaches are immune from a student's privacy lawsuit because there was no clearly established law barring school officials from discussing a student's private matters with the student's parent.

A seven-month investigation into an alleged sexual assault by a high school football player in a small Missouri town has set the internet ablaze.

A high school basketball program in Virginia has been suspended indefinitely amid allegations of a sexual assault involving a 16-year-old boy, while junior varsity wrestlers in Oklahoma face similar allegations.

The parents of a 16-year-old who died last fall from football-related brain trauma are suing the New York school districts he played for and the medical responders who tended to him the night he sustained his fatal injury.

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts signed a bill into law Wednesday that expands the state's anti-hazing regulations to elementary, middle, and high schools rather than just post-secondary institutions.

A Chicago-based former Little League team has filed a lawsuit against Little League International over the organization's decision to strip the team's United States championship earlier this year.

The battle stems from Varsity Brands' efforts to gain copyright protection for the design of stripes, chevrons, zigzags, and color blocks that are on its uniforms.

How can you teach students to distinguish right from wrong when they see others violate moral standards shamelessly? Eminent psychologist Albert Bandura explains the perils of moral disengagement.

The question has increasing urgency as coronavirus rates surge and more public health experts say keeping schools open is essential.

School board members in Tucson, Ariz., acted after learning that a controversial economics textbook that hadn't been properly vetted.

The shift could have lasting effects on both public schools and the home-schooling movement.

As an attempt to mitigate a persistent school supply problem, New Mexico plans to give some 23,000 teachers prepaid gift cards for use on classroom materials. One local union calls it a distraction from larger funding issues.

OM Japan and an outreach team encourage and help people who suffered from the tsunami in Ishinomaki and the area around Minami Sanriku.

OM Japan feels honoured to have played a small part in helping bring hope and relief to tsunami survivors.

Despite freezing temperatures and snow, ministry with Café Hope has been both challenging and exciting for Michelle from Singapore.

Responding to God’s call to reach out to survivors of the 2011 tsunami in the Tohoko region, OM Japan starts a ministry called 4 Friends Network.

Two OMers were asked to help a church network deliver relief supplies to churches in Kumamoto after two large earthquakes had struck the area.

It's unrealistic to expect anyone to invest totally dispassionately. But there are ways to transform risk, writes Hannes Viljoen.

Our freedom, and fortunes as a nation, lie with the likes of the independent and professional men and women as those at the head of the SA Reserve Bank, and very much unlike those at the NPA.

Despite criticism of electioneering, the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) has defended its R7 million social-reality television show.

Most time management strategies are dropped as quickly as they are picked up for one key reason: insight is so much more important than theory, says Ian Mann. And this author's insight is invaluable.

Three national educational funders explain a new program that is highlighting innovative practices in schools around the country.

Innovations that schools developed during their rapid transition to online instruction could inspire them to "rethink education," U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said at a web conference with reporters.

Guest blogger Aimée Eubanks Davis says, "We need to address the resource and social-capital network disparities that often exist between elite private and flagship public institutions and their large public counterparts.

Julie Gunlock closes out her week of guest blogging by lamenting how, despite the creative ideas out there, her school district, for example, doesn't seem to be deploying any of the innovative solutions we hear so much about.

In response to one school district's commitment to professional development, research explores teacher PD best practices and reviews the district's offerings.

Countries that score highest on an international measure of student achievement tend to have these three things in common when it comes to professional development for teachers.

A growing number of students have experienced a brain injury that could affect their ability to learn in school. Yet most teachers aren't prepared to work with these students.

Many outside PD opportunities still separate the "haves" from the "have-nots" and uphold systemic oppression.

Mentoring a student-teacher won't hurt a teacher's district evaluation score—in fact, it might even give it a boost, according to a working study.

A panel of experts—including a national teacher's union president and an official from the Department of Education—discussed how to make teaching a more attractive profession.

About two dozen teachers from across the country spent a week wrestling with questions about how to remember the Confederacy.

A recent study found that one organization's instructional-leadership professional development had no impact. Could it be because the topic of instructional leadership needs to be expanded?

In rural Kentucky, teachers and students are awarded innovation grants to solve a challenge facing their community or classroom.

Like other Americans, liberal and conservative teachers perceive news sources' credibility differently. How does that affect their teaching of media literacy?

Teachers are the experts of the classroom, so they should be empowered to lead professional development, educators said at a forum that included the two national teachers' union presidents.

To help ease the transition to remote instruction, educators have launched virtual professional learning communities to share resources, ask questions, and give advice.

Quiz yourself: How have educational professional development needs and interests shifted since the start of the pandemic, and how are schools and districts addressing these changes?

A new process for judging the quality of professional development has made its debut, with the aim of answering a difficult question: Which PD is high-quality and which isn't?

A Kansas teacher of the year explains her approach to offering super engaging professional development in a virtual setting.

Nationally, at least five million children have at least one parent who is undocumented. Supporting those children should be a priority if the threat of a raid is not imminent, advocates said.

A collection of stories from the week that you may have missed.