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Big Ideas in Education

Big Ideas is 澳门跑狗论坛鈥檚 annual special report that brings the expertise of our newsroom鈥攁nd occasionally those beyond our newsroom鈥攖o 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.

鈥擡lizabeth 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鈥攁nd history鈥攃an explain the causes and offer solutions.
August 26, 2024
People come together together from both sides of the chasm between a split public school
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Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas to Solve New and Persistent Challenges in Education
A look at the substantive divides in education鈥攐ver how we pay teachers, how we teach reading, how we integrate AI, and much more.
September 1, 2023
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Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas for Transforming K-12 Education
Could thinking differently about equity, mental health, how we communicate鈥攅ven change, itself鈥攗sher in education transformation?
September 6, 2022
Colorful conceptual illustration of a sprout growing from a broken pencil
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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
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Pep Montserrat for 澳门跑狗论坛
Big Ideas in Education Special Report Big Ideas for Confronting Racism in Education
There鈥檚 no single solution for combating anti-Black racism in schools. That鈥檚 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
澳门跑狗论坛 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
澳门跑狗论坛 reporters and editors identify 10 of today鈥檚 most pressing challenges in education and offer bold ideas for addressing them.
January 9, 2019
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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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