Teaching Profession
Education news, analysis, and opinion about teachers as a workforce and policies affecting them.
See also: Salaries & Benefits, Job Satisfaction, New Teachers, Teacher Diversity, Unions, Teacher Evaluations
The State of Teaching
New national data on the teaching profession, vivid reporting from classrooms, and resources to help support this essential profession.
Special Report
Taking Care of Teachers
This report looks at the many ways stressors related to COVID-19 and racial inequities have affected the teacher workforce, strategies for self-care, and how school leaders and districts can help protect their teachers鈥� social and emotional well-being through the continued uncertainty.
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Social-Emotional Learning 2017
This special collection explores methods for avoiding burnout, reducing stress, and teaching cultural responsiveness.
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Helping New Teachers Thrive
This special report explores the challenges new teachers face, and what schools of education, districts, and other organizations are doing to help them succeed.
Teaching Profession Teaching During Menopause? You May Want to Hear This NewsThe FDA will remove warning labels on HRT, a treatment for menopause. Here's why it matters.
Teaching Profession Letter to the Editor How Teachers Can Take Care of ThemselvesA retired teacher shares recommendations on setting healthy work-life boundaries.
Teaching Profession Letter to the Editor Images Should Reflect Real-Life DemographicsA reader pushes back on the illustration used with an Education Week Opinion essay.
Teaching Profession Should It Be Normal for Teachers to Have a Second Job? Educators Weigh InResearch has shown that most 糖心动漫vlog work multiple jobs. Teachers shared their reactions in an Education Week Facebook post.
Teaching Profession Opinion How a Middle School Teacher Became a Viral SensationA science educator explains how he balances being an influencer with his classroom practice.
Teaching Profession How Uncertified Teachers Went From a Stopgap to an Escalating CrisisUsing uncertified teachers to fill shortages may further destabilize the educator pipeline.
Teaching Profession For Teachers, Work-Life Boundaries Are Harder to Keep Than EverNew surveys find teachers have less flexibility, more intrusive jobs than peers in other jobs.
Teaching Profession 'It's Rough Out Here': Why Most Teachers Work a Second Job (and What It Means)Those with education-related second jobs are more likely to stay than those with non-related gigs.
Teaching Profession How School Leaders Can Help Teachers Avoid BurnoutAdministrators share insights on preventing teacher burnout and supporting staff well-being.
Teaching Profession States Are Experimenting With Teacher Pay Again鈥擝ut the Focus Isn鈥檛 Just Test ScoresRenewed interest could spur another wave of experiments with teacher pay.
Teaching Profession Opinion A New Test for Some Would-Be Teachers Might Just Be a Political MoveThe goal of an assessment shouldn't be performative politics.
Teaching Profession From Our Research Center Educators' Political Preferences Don't Always Reveal Their K-12 Positions (in Charts)Teachers and school and district leaders share their opinions on a host of hot-button issues.
Teaching Profession Opinion I Tied My Self-Worth to Teaching. That's Why I Had to LeaveTrying to be the perfect educator in my second year brought an insane amount of pressure.
Teaching Profession Free-Speech Lines Blur for Teachers in Wake of Charlie Kirk's KillingFallout from teacher reactions to the activist's death led some state officials to threaten to revoke 糖心动漫vlog' licenses.
Teaching Profession Teachers Across the U.S. Get Suspended or Fired Over Posts Linked to Charlie KirkTeachers face discipline for social media posts following the conservative speaker's assassination.
