Parodists strive to imitate my plummy English voice, one of the last to remain outside captivity, but it is beyond their ...

Readers find a classroom trend of assigning shorter texts “troubling.” Also: Reaction to President Trump’s naming of a ...

Kristen Andretta is one of 120 teachers statewide who won a 2025 Exemplary Educator designation from the state Education ...

T he Economist has already chosen a word of 2025. The winner is representative, if not of the whole year, at least of much of the feeling of living in it. It is not a new word, but it is being used in ...

This is what the Defector staff read and enjoyed in 2025. The Trials of Gabriel Ward Murder Mystery Series, by Sally Smith ...

Big anniversaries are coming up in 2026: 200 years since the deaths of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 250 since the signing ...

As of a June 2025 EdWeek tracker, New York is one of 21 states, as well as Washington D.C., that have banned smartphones ...

Long discussed in Rappahannock oral tradition, the village site can now be preserved by the tribe’s modern members.

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

Some local businesses are pivoting to encourage potentially vulnerable customers to stay home as ICE agents arrested dozens ...

Here’s a collection of the English-learner-focused stories that resonated most with EdWeek readers in 2025. In July, the U.S. Department of Justice published guidance on how federal agencies could ...