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Special Report Math & AI: Can They Work Together?
Many math teachers are testing out AI tools in their classrooms, but skepticism remains about the technology's instructional value. 
March 24, 2025
Custom illustration of a profile (could be a student or a teacher) within a large dark purple sphere and surrounded by additional blue and red spheres filled with AI icons and math equations, and AI app icons.
Stephanie Dalton Cowan for Education Week
Special Report How AI Is Reshaping Teachers’ Jobs
Artificial intelligence is changing the way teachers work, learn, and teach.
February 14, 2025
Photo collage of woman working on laptop computer.
Education Week + Getty
Special Report Social-Emotional Learning 2025: New Priorities Emerge
Schools are using social-emotional learning to address growing concerns about students' behavior and ability to think and act independently.
January 13, 2025
Social Emotional Learning priorities emerge.
Anna Godeassi for Education Week
Special Report The Transformative Potential of AI: 6 Big Questions for Schools
When it comes to artificial intelligence, thoughtful leadership at the district, school, and classroom levels is more important than ever.
December 9, 2024
Custom cover illustration by Stuart Briers showing a butterfly with a motherboard pattern on its wings that has landed on a stack of books. There is an illuminating tech pattern coming from the butterfly and a blurred blue background showing a laptop.
Stuart Briers for Education Week
Special Report Different Subjects, Different Reading
How can teachers help students master each content area's specialized vocabulary, tools, and ways of communicating?
October 28, 2024
Illustration of student with multiple books.
Dan Page for Education Week
Special Report Understanding Learning Differences
This special report explores neurodiversity and some key issues shaping the experiences of students with learning and thinking differences.
October 7, 2024
Silhouettes of diverse students, each growing a different type of plant. Neurodiversity represented by biodiversity.
Nix Ren for Education Week
Special Report Competency-Based Education: What It Is and How to Pull It Off
Competency-based education can upend more than a century of tradition in K-12 schools. How schools have made it work.
September 16, 2024
Collage illustration of the backs of two students wearing bookbags and walking over a large computer keyboard with collage pieces like sky, numbers, checkmarks, letters, lines, and shapes.
Nadia Radic for Education Week
Special Report STEM Teachers: How to Find the Good Ones and Keep Them
See how schools are making progress, and where they are falling short, in addressing chronic teacher shortages in STEM fields.
September 9, 2024
STEM
Collage by Laura Baker/Education Week with Getty and Canva
Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas for Upending Polarization
Educators feel divisions in their classrooms, schools, and districts. Research—and history—can explain the causes and offer solutions.
August 26, 2024
People come together together from both sides of the chasm between a split public school
Eva Vázquez for Education Week
Special Report Motivating All Students to Be STEM Problem Solvers
Motivating students in STEM-related classes can be difficult. But competency and confidence in STEM subjects is important for everyone.
May 28, 2024
Photo illustration of teen girl working on soldering board.
F. Sheehan for Education Week + iStock / Getty Images Plus
Special Report Special Education: Adapting to Challenging Realities
Exploring how special education services are adapting to unprecedented challenges and opportunities in education, from teacher shortages to technological advancements.
May 13, 2024
Student standing in front of a school that's distorted, hinting at changing realities.
Nicole Xu for Education Week
Special Report Relationships Matter: Building Strong Student-School Connections
More students on track, more students at school, better behavior. See how schools are harnessing the power of student relationships.
April 14, 2024
Students at Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Woodinville, Wash., play during recess on April 2, 2024. Students have access to cards with images and words on them so all students, including those who do not speak, can communicate on the playground.
Students at Ruby Bridges Elementary School in Woodinville, Wash., play during recess on April 2, 2024. Students have access to cards with images and words on them so all students, including those who do not speak, can communicate on the playground.
Meron Menghistab for Education Week

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