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Big Ideas in Education

Big Ideas is Education Week’s annual special report that brings the expertise of our newsroom—and occasionally those beyond our newsroom—to bear on the challenges you might be facing in your classroom, school, or district. Big Ideas questions the status quo and explores opportunities to help you build a better, more just learning environment for all students. Browse our collection below.

The report is committed to supporting you and the work you are doing. And so we want to hear from you. To share your thoughts, please use #K12BigIdeas on social or email us at bigideas@educationweek.org.

—Elizabeth Rich, Executive Project Editor for Big Ideas

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
Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas to Solve New and Persistent Challenges in Education
A look at the substantive divides in education—over how we pay teachers, how we teach reading, how we integrate AI, and much more.
September 1, 2023
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Traci Debarko for Education Week
Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas for Transforming K-12 Education
Could thinking differently about equity, mental health, how we communicate—even change, itself—usher in education transformation?
September 6, 2022
Colorful conceptual illustration of a sprout growing from a broken pencil
Adolfo Valle for Education Week
Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas for Education's Urgent Challenges
This special report tackles big challenges and hard questions, like: What is the purpose of school? Are we leaning on districts too much?
September 14, 2021
Conceptual Image of schools preparing for the pandemic
Pep Montserrat for Education Week
Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas for Confronting Racism in Education
There’s no single solution for combating anti-Black racism in schools. That’s why we filled an entire special report on the subject.
September 23, 2020
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Big Ideas in Education Special Report 10 Big Ideas in Education 2020
Education Week reporters and editors question some of the basic assumptions that underpin public education and stand in the way of transformation.
January 8, 2020
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Big Ideas in Education Special Report 10 Big Ideas in Education 2019
Education Week reporters and editors identify 10 of today’s most pressing challenges in education and offer bold ideas for addressing them.
January 9, 2019
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Daryn Ray for Education Week
Big Ideas in Education Special Report 10 Big Ideas in Education 2018
Part opinion writing, part conversation, and part journalism analysis, this special report explores game-changing disruptions to the field of education that have the potential to shake up the schoolhouse and the classroom.
January 10, 2018
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