Dear Education Week reader,
I’m absolutely thrilled to share our new website at edweek.org. It’s been redesigned, reimagined and completely rebuilt.
You’ll notice the new look, the clean spacing between stories, the bright new fonts, the bigger and better treatment of graphics and photography. You might also notice the long, bountiful scroll through layers of stories and our new, gorgeous presentation of Special Reports, those single-topic deep dives we’ve been doing for years.
But you may not notice, at least at first, our new navigation. You may not realize that we completely overhauled our topic labels and headers — our taxonomy. We spent months scrutinizing our archive of stories and opinion pieces, and then months more thinking about the work we will do in the future and we pushed ourselves to organize all of that under topics and labels that you care about and that you would use.
We asked ourselves over and over, ‘how would a principal look for that?’ or ‘where would a teacher expect to find information on this.’ In the process, we eliminated some old labels and added some new ones like “Recruitment & Retention” and “Student Well-Being,” topics we know are relevant to so many education professionals today.
I know, it’s pretty in-the-weeds stuff, but we’re in-the-weeds kind of people and we know you are, too. And I wanted to point it out because as much as anything it’s the engine behind how this website will serve you better than anything we’ve ever done.
We are excited about our new website and part of what we love about it is that today marks a beginning, not an end. No doubt today’s new website is a gigantic upgrade over our old site (and thank goodness, right?), but we have plans well into the future for continuous improvements. Over time, you can expect more features and more thoughtful presentations. We consider our website to be the foundation of our relationship with you.
The new edweek.org is not just a news site; it’s your professional companion.
Scott Montgomery, Editor-in-Chief/Chief Content Officer
