The State of Teaching

Resilience, resourcefulness, and adaptability: These three skills are arguably the most indispensable to teachers in 2025.

As Education Week’s annual project—The State of Teaching—reveals, America’s teachers are showing stamina and grit amid stagnant levels of student learning and achievement and a rapidly changing educational and political environment.

This year’s project—our second edition—is built on an exclusive, nationally representative survey of America’s K-12 teacher workforce by the EdWeek Research Center and on-the-ground reporting in classrooms from EdWeek journalists. We’ve expanded the scope of our research in Year 2 to provide deeper insights into teachers’ attitudes and experiences, including a state-by-state look at teacher morale.

But our mission remains the same: to enhance the understanding of a critical workforce of 3 million educators through rigorous reporting and analysis of rich data that can inform innovative and effective solutions to empower this essential profession.