With the Janus case looming before the Supreme Court, teachers' unions are knocking on doors to try to boost membership and mitigate financial loss.

"This lawsuit will enable teachers like me to recover the agency fees that we were wrongly forced to pay against our will," said one of the plaintiffs.

Whether Janus will be a death blow or a turning point for unions depends on what they do now, writes Paul Reville.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., made her first policy pitch on the campaign trail Saturday: A new federal program to boost teacher pay.

Schools are not preparing students to enter an increasingly diverse world, writes high school senior Zoë Jenkins.

Veteran reporter Debra Viadero invites researchers to scrutinize her decades of reporting for racial bias.

Labeling whiteness as "weak" does not reflect the racial terror people of color feel, writes Bettina L. Love.

Black Lives Matter, climate change, family separation? All appropriate classroom topics, writes Christina Torres.

Breaking the cycle of institutional racism includes a quality education for Black students, writes Khalilah M. Harris. Here’s how that could look.

Controversy over a proposal to admit students by lottery to a highly selective school in Virginia echoes a nationwide debate over how to include more Blacks, Latinos, and low-income students in advanced academic programs.

Here's why we chose to dedicate our entire Big Ideas special report to addressing anti-Black systemic racism in schools.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett said it would be "unthinkable" for the landmark "Brown" desegregation decision to be overruled.

The first season of the Netflix political potboiler was rich with education-policy plotlines, and we're hoping for more of the same.

Yesterday, the House passed the Student Success Act, but there's still a ways to go before a final bill. Here's a checklist for a final bill to "fix" NCLB.

'American Graduate Day 2014' is a hodgepodge of entertainment, live interviews, and filmed segments about ways to raise high school graduation rates.

Spotlight Education week continues with "Frontline" reports on for-profit colleges and a "TED Talks" special featuring a mix of education voices.

Eliminating credit recovery as a path to graduation would do more harm than good, writes one assistant superintendent.

Disconnections make it tough for homeless students to stay in school, says a new study, which also details the new requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act that bolster resources for their support.

A collection of news stories from this week.

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.

Two recent studies of Teach to One: Math highlight the tension in math between grade-level-based accountability systems and approaches to instruction that enable more personalized paths to college and career readiness.

In a recent high-profile case, Harvard College rescinded its offer to a school-shooting survivor after racist comments he’d written online surfaced. But how common is it for colleges to take back offers? And do students have any recourse?

A look at the two major political parties' platforms since the first charter school law was passed shows how Democrats' positions on school choice have evolved, including increased calls for accountability.

High-performing urban schools lent moral authority and measurable results to the charter school sector. Why do advocates give them the cold shoulder? Fordham's Robert Pondiscio answers.

By the single most important metric, charter schools are succeeding, argues Bruno V. Manno.

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 17-year-old Utah soccer player accused of killing a referee earlier this year pleaded guilty to third-degree felony homicide by assault.

The three Somerville High School juniors allegedly entered a freshman cabin and sexually assaulted three victims.

The National Labor Relations Board unanimously declined jurisdiction Monday in the case involving Northwestern University football players attempting to unionize.

A federal appeals court has struck down an Indiana school district's policy requiring short hair for boys on the basketball team, ruling that the lack of a similar policy for girls'-team basketball players results in illegal sex discrimination.

A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a proposed plan that would have paid certain student-athletes as much as $5,000 annually in deferred compensation.

Three Ga. high school seniors have been charged with aggravated sexual battery and consumption of alcohol by a minor stemming from an alleged sexual assault during a post-prom party.

Two high school basketball coaches and an assistant principal/athletic director are facing criminal charges stemming from an alleged hazing incident that resulted in the hospitalization of a 15-year-old boy.

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.

USA Gymnastics, which develops the U.S. Olympic team, reportedly failed to inform authorities of numerous allegations regarding sexual abuse by coaches.

Two football players from John Jay High School in San Antonio, Texas, could be facing criminal charges after appearing to intentionally tackle a referee during a game on Friday night.

In the lawsuit, the Chicago-based team's parents allege Little League was aware of potential residency issues, "but chose to ignore and/or deliberately conceal these facts in order to garner higher ratings, publicity, and money."

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.

The 2020-21 academic year remains in a state of limbo because of COVID-19, but states are moving forward with guidelines for local districts to use as they make decisions about when instruction—in-person, online, or a combination of both—will begin.

Since June 2020 Education Week has tracked if & when the over 200 schools named after men with ties to the Confederacy changed their names.

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.

A new evaluation of an Oakland, Calif., school district program designed to wrap black male students in a culturally rich and supportive environment is paying off.

The Chester Upland district has faced financial hardship for decades, and for the second time in four years, teachers will be working without pay.

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

A woman whose home was damaged by the tsunami accepts Christ after witnessing the lives and attitudes of the volunteers working in her house.

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