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Teaching Profession Teacher Morale in 2026: Five Takeaways
See five highlights from EdWeek's annual, national survey of U.S. teachers.
Holly Kurtz & Maya Riser-Kositsky
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Teaching Profession Interactive What Was Happening in Education the Year You Began Teaching?
Teachers, what was the big education story when you started teaching? Find out in our interactive timeline.
Stephen Sawchuk & Maya Riser-Kositsky
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Teaching Profession Interactive How Much Did Teacher Pay Change in 30 Years? Draw a Line With Your Best Estimate
Can you guess if teacher salaries have generally gone down, up, or stayed about the same?
Maya Riser-Kositsky
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Social Studies What Makes for a Good Social Studies Curriculum?
A new curriculum review tool makes the case for elementary schoolers to learn more history.
Sarah Schwartz
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Alisson Ramírez, right, listens to her social studies teacher during class Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, in Aurora, Colo.
Alisson Ramírez, right, listens to her social studies teacher during class Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, in Aurora, Colo. Elementary social studies is the focus of a new tool meant to guide curriculum selection that leans more heavily on history content than on skills like weighing primary sources.
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Teaching Profession Quiz Teachers, How Does Your Morale Compare With Your Colleagues'? Take Our Quiz
Take our online quiz and compare your morale score with that of teachers nationwide.
Education Week Staff
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New Teacher Support Coaches engross in a discussion during New Teacher Support Coaches Professional Learning session on November 7, 2025 at Center for Professional Development in Fresno.
Coaches who support new teachers meet on November 7, 2025, at the Fresno, Calif., school district's Center for Professional Development. Nurturing the morale of new teachers is a big challenge for schools across the country.
Andri Tambunan for Education Week
Teaching Profession Gen Z Teachers Grew Up With Tech. Now They're Seeking Better Boundaries for Students
Gen Z teachers grew up in an era of unbridled tech. It shapes how they approach classroom technology.
Sarah D. Sparks
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Katrina Sacurom, a 5th grade teacher, huddles with the Shawnee Trail Elementary School journalism crew to go over how their projects are progressing on Feb. 3, 2026 in Frisco, Texas. She says she wants her students to learn to use technology thoughtfully and has looked for ways to tailor it to be meaningful, not mindless.
Kaylee Domzalski/Education Week
Teaching Profession Why Are Teachers in This Region So Miserable?
It's not clear why New England and Mid-Atlantic teachers feel so burned out. But some fixes could help.
Sarah D. Sparks
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Winter in Lowville, N.Y. on Nov. 29, 2025. “There’s a lot of things here in our area that would certainly impact teacher morale if you let it,” said Zippel Principal Christopher Hallett. “We are very conscious of it here in our region. We are isolated in many, many ways: It’s a low-income population in a very rural area, so as you can imagine, there’s not a lot to do. Getting people to think outside the box about their own mental health and self-care is pretty important up here.”
Winter in Lowville, N.Y. on Nov. 29, 2025. For the past three years, teachers in the Northeast—including New York state—have reported significantly poorer morale than teachers in the West, Midwest, and South, according to the EdWeek Research Center’s annual survey. Said one Maine principal, Christopher Hallett: “There’s a lot of things here in our area that would certainly impact teacher morale if you let it."
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    Reading & Literacy Opinion How Graphic Novels Can Bring Joy to Reading Instruction
    Here's how teachers are using comic books and nonfiction graphic novels in literacy instruction.
    Larry Ferlazzo, March 3, 2026
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    Plumes of smoke from two simultaneous strikes rise over Tehran, Iran, Monday, March 2, 2026.
    Plumes of smoke from two simultaneous U.S. air strikes rise over Tehran, Iran, on March 2, 2026. Providing age-appropriate opportunities for students to talk about war-related topics such as the current U.S.-Iran conflict can help them process those events in more meaningful ways.
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    Social Studies How to Talk to Students About the U.S.-Iran Conflict
    Educators need to let students' questions drive the discussions in age-appropriate ways.
    Lauraine Langreo, March 2, 2026
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    A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at a school in the Queens borough of New York.
    A third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at a school in the Queens borough of New York. At least half of the nation’s states have adopted cursive writing instruction in recent years, reversing a sharp decline in teaching of that skill after the Common Core, launched in 2010, omitted it from its standards.
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    Curriculum Cursive is Making a Comeback. It Won’t Be Without Challenges
    A growing number of states are requiring schools to return to cursive writing instruction.
    Elizabeth Heubeck, March 2, 2026
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    ionCINCINNATI, OHIO - AUGUST 21, 2025 A student wears a translucent backpack while waiting to ride Metro, Cincinnati’s public bus system, to their second day of school on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by Luke Sharrett for Education Week
    Educators have really different opinions about whether students get too much or too little homework, and what role it plays in learning. A student wears a translucent backpack while waiting to Cincinnati’s public bus system, on Aug. 21, 2025 in Ohio.
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    Teaching Homework: Critical Practice or Meaningless Busywork? Teachers Weigh In
    Does homework still have a purpose? The K-12 field appears deeply divided.
    Edér Del Prado, March 2, 2026
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    Students in Cristina Hernandez's International Baccalaureate Math Analysis and Approaches Higher Level 1 work on an assignment during class at Bonita Vista High School on Oct. 10, 2024 in San Diego, Calif.
    Students work on an assignment during a high school class on Oct. 10, 2024, in San Diego. An EdWeek Research Center survey shows that teachers in more impoverished school districts say they're less likely to assign homework.
    Ariana Drehsler for Education Week
    Teaching Homework Assignments Less Common in High-Poverty Districts
    An EdWeek Research Center survey examines out-of-school assignments by poverty level of the school system.
    Jennifer Vilcarino, February 27, 2026
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    Reading & Literacy Letter to the Editor Reading Instruction Must Use Whole Books
    Reading passages serve a purpose but don't compare to reading the whole book, says this letter.
    February 27, 2026
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