Evidence of increasing behavioral incidents in South Dakota’s schools is largely anecdotal, not always quantitative, and difficult to track. In other words, educators agree that there’s a problem.

Education Week journalists have consistently heard anecdotes about problems with student behavior and engagement, so for the 2026 The State of Teaching survey, we crafted a few questions about how ...

Student behavior problems continue to plague schools, and educators say they’ve actually grown more serious, according to a recent survey by the EdWeek Research Center. Nearly half of teachers, school ...

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is helping teachers create more inclusive, structured classrooms for autistic students. By using evidence-based strategies, educators can better support communication, ...

Since at least 2022, the education world has been preoccupied with the “teacher exodus”: a troubling trend of teachers quitting at record rates. Though attrition has eased somewhat since its pandemic ...

Passed in 1974, FERPA was never meant to govern cloud-based platforms, artificial intelligence, or the invisible flow of student data across third-party vendors. Our students deserve better.

Assessing student learning effectively is often complicated by relying on ambiguous proxies such as grades, quiz scores, or assumptions about students' internal states, such as what they feel, think, ...