Talk of school quality tends to focus on teachers—what they do to affect student achievement, how they succeed or how they fail. But district and building administrators also have an enormous ...

The number of administrators in the Clark County School District has ballooned over the past decade, while the number of teachers has remained almost flat in an era of declining enrollment, a Las ...

Earlier this spring, the U.S. Department of Education issued major changes to Title IX, the rule that protects college students who experience sex-based harrassment, including sexual violence. Since ...

Education Week contributor Elizabeth Heubeck recently wrote about principals who also teach, capturing how the practice helps school leaders better understand the challenges teachers face in the ...

Look only at the trend line showing the slowly climbing percentage of higher education administrative positions held by minority leaders, and it appears colleges and universities are inching toward a ...

The list of challenges facing school administrators as they head into the new year is long and daunting: crippling staff shortages, nasty battles over mask-wearing, deep academic deficits, terrifying ...

Evergreen Public Schools’ board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a new contract with the union that represents the district’s principals and other administrators. The Evergreen Administrators ...

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American universities are not having their finest hour, partly because of Covid-19. But even after the pandemic, they will be weaker and less consequential than they were a decade or even a generation ...

The stories of illiberal and repressive forces on campuses nationwide are seemingly unending. Mob-style cancel culture and violent protests at American universities are no longer exceptional.

F or years, faculty members have pointed to the sluggish growth in the number of tenured professors and complained that university payrolls are filled with too many administrators. This, they maintain ...

Update: The University of Oregon and its faculty union reached a tentative agreement to avoid a strike on Sunday night. For details of that agreement, click here. Roughly 25,000 students at Oregon’s ...