List of issues in K-12 education in the United States

This is a list of issues in K-12 education in the United States.
A
Ability grouping
- Academic achievement
- Academic inflation
- Accountability
- Achievement gap
- Active learning
- Adolescence
- Advanced Placement
- Advertising
- Affirmative action
- Agricultural education
- Alternate routes to teacher certification
- Alternative assessment
- Alternative education
- Alternative high school
- Alternative school
- Alternative schools
- Arts in the curriculum
- Art education
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- Assertive discipline
- Assessment
- At-risk students
- Attendance
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Autism
- Autonomous learning
B
- Back to school
- Basic education
- Behavior management
- - Bias in education
- Bilingual education
- Blended learning
- Blindness and education
- Block scheduling
- Board of education
- Book banning
- Boys
- Brain
- Brainstorming
- Brainwashing
- ‘’Brown v. Board of Education’’
- Budgets
- Bulletin boards
- Bullying
- Bullying in teaching
- Burnout
- Buses
C
- Cafeteria
- California Virtual Academies
- Career education
- Character education
- Charter schools
- Cheating
- Chemistry education
-
- Child
- Citizenship
- Civics
- Class lists
- Class size
- Civic, Social and Political Education
- Class ring
- Classical education
- Classroom management
- Coaching
- Collaborative learning
- Community involvement
- Community learning centers
- Community service
- Compensatory education
- Competitive foods
- Comprehensive school
- Compulsory education
- Computer assisted instruction
- Computer Based Learning
- Computer Supported Cooperative Learning
- Conflict resolution
- Conservation
- Constructive criticism
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- Cooking
- Cooperative education
- Cooperative learning
- Core curriculum
- Corporal punishment
- Corporal punishment
- Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations
- Courses
- Course catalog
- Counseling
- Creative problem solving
- Creativity
- Creativity techniques
- Credential inflation
- Critical pedagogy
- Critical thinking
- Cultural learning
- Culturally relevant teaching
- Curriculum
- Curriculum-based measurement
- Curriculum control
D
- Data
- Debates in the Classroom
- Democracy
- Desegregation busing
- Differentiated Instruction
- Digital Divide
- Disabilities
- Discipline
- Discrimination
- Distance Learning
- Districts
- District Collaborations
- Drama
- Dress Codes
- Dropouts
- Drugs
- Dumbing down
E
- Early childhood education
- Education
- Education control
- Education for All Handicapped Children Act
- Education funding
- Education reform
- Educational devaluation
- Educational inequality
- - - Eighth grade
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- Elementary school
- Eleventh grade
- Emotional disabilities
- End-of-Year
- English as a Second Language
- English in the classroom
- Environment
- Ethics education
- Evolution
- Exercise
- Extracurricular activities
F
- Facilities
- Federal education policy
- Female education
- Field trips
- Fifth grade
- First grade
- Financial literacy
- First-year teachers
- Fitness
- Foreign languages
- For-profit education
- Fourth grade
- Free and appropriate public education
- Free education
- Fundraising
G
- Gap year
- Geography
- Gifted education
- Grading
- Grade configurations
- Grade inflation
- Grade level transitions
- Grade retention
- Grants
- Green Cleaning
- Green Schools
H
- Handwriting
- Hazing
- Health Education
- Health services
* High school
- High-Stakes Testing
- History
- Holidays
- Homeschooling
- Homework
- Humor
I
- In-School Suspension
- Incentives
- Inclusion
- Integration
- Interdisciplinary jobs
J
- Junior high
- Juvenile justice
K
- Kindergarten
- Knitting
L
- Language arts
- Leadership
- Learning disabilities
- Learning styles
- Library
- Literacy
- Literature
- Looping
M
- Magnet schools
- Manners
- Marketing in schools
- Math
- Math-verbal achievement gap
- Media literacy
- Mental health
- Merit pay
- Student mentoring
- Middle school
- Minority educators
- Minority students
- Mobility
- Student motivation
- Multi-age classroom
- Multicultural education
- Multilingual education
- Multiple intelligences
- Museums
- Music
N
- National Board Certification
- Native American schools
- Native Americans
- Noise
- Nutrition
O
- Online learning
- Online safety
- Opportunity trap
- Oppositional culture
- Organizational skills
- Outdoor education
P
- Parents
- Parent Conferences
- Parent Involvement
- Pay-for-Performance
- Peer Mediation
- Peer Review
- People’s History
- Physical education
- Physical education, lack of
- Plagiarism
- Poetry
- Portable Classrooms
- Portfolios
- Praise
- Pregnancy
- Principals
- Principal Assessment
- Private Schools
- Professional Development
- Promotion
- Public Relations
R
- - Racial achievement gap in the United States
- Ragging
- Reading
- Recess
- Reform
- Religion
- Report cards
- Restorative practices
- Restorative justice
- Retention
- Rewards
- Rural schools
S
- SAT subject tests
- Scheduling
- Schools
- School calendar
- School commercialism
- School buildings
- School community
- School culture
- School district
- School improvement
- School issues
- School nursing
- School refusal
- School safety
- School schedules
- School shooting
- School size
- School standards
- School uniform
- School violence
- School voucher
- School-to-work
- Science
- Scientific literacy
- Senioritis
- Second grade
- Secretaries
- Self-control
- Self-esteem
- Senior high school
- Service learning
- Seventh grade
- Sex education
- Sexual harassment in education
- Single-sex education
- Sixth grade
- Sleep issues
- Social networking
- Social promotion
- Social sciences
- Special education
- Staff meetings
- Small schools movement
- Standardized test
- State education agency
- Strategies
- Student achievement
- Student-centered learning
- Student-led conferences
- Student-teacher ratio
- Student assessment
- Student support programs
- Student engagement
- Student leadership
- Student rights
- Student voice
- Study skills
- Substitute teachers
- Superficiality
- Superintendent
- Supplies
T
- Teachers
- Teacher assessment
- Teacher evaluation
- Teacher burnout
- Teacher education
- Teacher leadership
- Teacher mentoring
- Teacher motivation
- Teacher recognition
- Teacher recruitment
- Teacher researchers
- Teacher retention
- Teacher reviews
- Teacher salaries
- Teaching careers
- Teaching for social justice
- Technology
- Testing
- Textbooks
- Thinking skills
- Time management
- Title I
- Tolerance
- Tracking
- Truancy
U
- Uniforms
- Urban Schools
V
- Violence
- Vocational education
- Vouchers
W
- Wellness
- Working class education
- Writing
X
Y
- Year-round schools
Z
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