Education Week recorded the second-highest number of school shootings in 2024 since it started tracking the incidents in 2018 ...

Principals are middle managers, advice givers, and authority figures rolled into one. They seem to be everywhere all at once—welcoming students at dropoff, analyzing student data in their offices, ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at 100, is best known in education for overseeing the creation of a federal department of education. But his long life was full of intersections with ...

The 39th president helped create the U.S. Department of Education. He had also been a school board member and an education-minded governor.

The Biden administration plans to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Trump from retooling them to ...

A lot happened with the nation’s growing English-learner population in 2024. Here's a look, and a preview of the year ahead.

Parsing historical documents can train students to be critical consumers of information in their own lives, experts say.

EdWeek reporter Mark Lieberman outlines three areas he'll be watching when it comes to school finance under a new Trump administration.