The United States has an education problem—low and declining test scores, disengaged students, and growing teacher shortages, among other challenges. In Indiana, fewer high school students are ...

In this episode, Sana Shahid talks with Luthiene Franca from Utah State University’s climate science department, a teaching ...

Columbia Votes student “voter registration genius” Haley Patton (center) moderates a panel as part of “Meeting the Moment” in March 2025. When I started Columbia Votes in 2018, the name accurately ...

What does it take to truly engage students in the classroom and their studies? As instructors report a growing disengagement in their curricula, many are beginning to rethink their teaching practices ...

In 1933, the Oxford Union held one of the most famous debates in its storied history. The resolution before the student organization could scarcely have been more controversial: “This House Will under ...

A recent report from a Harvard College Faculty of Arts and Sciences committee calls attention to two major campus concerns: First, that students frequently self-censor on controversial topics, and ...

The Education Week Spotlight on Empowering Educators and Engaging Students is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on leveraging technology to meet students’ ...

One of our favorite books is How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching by Susan A. Ambrose and others. The chapter we turn to again and again is “What Factors Motivate ...

Another core idea for helping students grasp critical concepts in chemistry is to incorporate examples to which students can relate. This is a central strategy in culturally responsive teaching, which ...

Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

As a writer and scholar yourself, you probably know firsthand that feedback from informed peers is invaluable in clarifying and extending a piece of writing. Similarly, students can benefit from peer ...

Rabbi Dov Wagner didn’t set out to work with students. But when the Toronto native and Chabad shaliach (emissary) came out to California in 2000 and heard there was an opening at University of ...