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  1. The 10 Education Issues Everybody Should Be Talking About

    Education Week reporters and editors identify 10 of today's most pressing challenges in education and offer bold ideas for addressing them.

  2. Four of the biggest problems facing education—and four trends that

    In 2022, we published, Lessons for the education sector from the COVID-19 pandemic, which was a follow up to, Four Education Trends that Countries Everywhere Should Know About, which summarized views of education experts around the world on how to handle the most pressing issues facing the education sector then.We focused on neuroscience, the role of the private sector, education technology ...

  3. Crises converge on American education

    From teacher strikes and a teacher shortage to politics in the classroom and skyrocketing student loan debt, there are many education crises converging. Now new national test score data is being ...

  4. 10 Challenges Facing Public Education Today

    Public education has been a pathway out of poverty for families for generations, but that pathway is blocked when schools are unable to offer a decent education.Too often, low-income students end up in schools with the lowest funding, fewest supplies, the least rigorous curriculum, and the oldest facilities and equipment, according to the U.S ...

  5. The Ongoing Challenges, and Possible Solutions, to Improving

    Board of Education that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, ... School discipline issues were exacerbated because of student trauma.

  6. About half of Americans say public K-12 education is going in the wrong

    Related: Race and LGBTQ Issues in K-12 Schools. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say the public K-12 education system is going in the wrong direction. About two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (65%) say this, compared with 40% of Democrats and Democratic leaners.

  7. How COVID taught America about inequity in education

    "Unequal" is a multipart series highlighting the work of Harvard faculty, staff, students, alumni, and researchers on issues of race and inequality across the U.S. This part looks at how the pandemic called attention to issues surrounding the racial achievement gap in America. The pandemic has disrupted education nationwide, turning a spotlight on existing racial and economic disparities ...

  8. 10 of the biggest problems facing education in 2024

    The 2014-16 West African Ebola outbreak was a severe problem for education in countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone. Ebola put the education of 3 million children in these countries on hold. As a response, we worked with the governments of both countries to deliver lessons by radio.

  9. 10 Ways to Tackle Education's Urgent Challenges

    The cover of this year's Big Ideas report from Education Week and the 10 essays inside reflect this moment and the constellation of emotions we know you're experiencing: hope, excitement ...

  10. Recognizing and Overcoming Inequity in Education

    22 January 2020 Introduction. I nequity is perhaps the most serious problem in education worldwide. It has multiple causes, and its consequences include differences in access to schooling ...

  11. Major Issues in Education: Hot Topics

    In America, issues in education are big topics of discussion, both in the news media and among the general public. The current education system is beset by a wide range of challenges, from cuts in government funding to changes in disciplinary policies—and much more. Everyone agrees that providing high-quality education for our citizens is a ...

  12. Right to Education : Situation around the world

    Universal primary education is a major issue and a sizeable problem for many states. Many emerging countries do not appropriate the financial resources necessary to create schools, provide schooling materials, nor recruit and train teachers. Funds pledged by the international community are generally not sufficient enough to allow countries to ...

  13. The Education Crisis: Being in School Is Not the Same as Learning

    Education reform: The long game is worth it. In fact, it will take a generation to realize the full benefits of high-quality teachers, the effective use of technology, improved management of education systems, and engaged and prepared learners. However, global experience shows us that countries that have rapidly accelerated development and ...

  14. Education 2030: topics and issues

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  15. 11 Critical Issues Facing Educators in 2023

    11 Issues for 2023. ... Politics in education - In the last couple of years, school leaders and teachers have had to fight rumors about teaching critical race theory, and we know states like ...

  16. The global education crisis

    Photo credit: Shutterstock In our recent The State of the Global Education Crisis: A Path to Recovery report (produced jointly by UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank), we sounded the alarm: this generation of students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 percent of today's global GDP, because of COVID-19-related school closures and economic shocks.

  17. Public education is facing a crisis of epic proportions

    Republicans — who see education as a winning political issue — are pressing their case for more "parental control," or the right to second-guess educators' choices.

  18. What Is Development?

    This funding is usually measured to indicate one country's spending toward another country or set of countries abroad, but can also sometimes include spending within a country's own borders on issues like refugee-hosting costs. Humanitarian aid is a significant area of international spending globally.

  19. Issue Brief: The Benefits of SAVE

    A college degree has traditionally been a reliable pathway to the middle class. However, over the past 40 years, college tuition has significantly outpaced many families' incomes. Consequently ...

  20. 2025 EDUCAUSE Top 10

    Once a year, members of the EDUCAUSE Top 10 Panel select a slate of 15-20 topics they believe will be the most important technology issues facing higher education institutions. EDUCAUSE members receive a survey with those topics and are asked to prioritize them. The 10 issues with the highest-priority scores become the EDUCAUSE Top 10.

  21. 5 Big Challenges Facing K-12 Education Today—And Ideas for Tackling Them

    Big Ideas is Education Week's annual special report that brings the expertise of our newsroom to bear on the challenges educators are facing in classrooms, schools, and districts.

  22. School Choice Is the Civil-Rights Issue of Our Time

    A debate between Sen. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) and his Republican challenger Dave McCormick airs on a television in Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 3. Photo: Nathan Morris/Zuma Press

  23. Key issues in District 64 race between Hopper and Brewer: Immigration

    Voters will decide in November to elect Republican Andy Hopper or Democrat Angela Brewer to represent District 64 in the Texas House of Representatives.