Medium “Education” tag statistics
How busy the Education tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 8.6 days
Busier than 56% of 73 tracked tags
31% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 93 stories a day, Education is busier than 56% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (60,931 followers per daily story) is higher than 70% of tags — more readers per story than average.
70% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 31% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 26% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 5.9 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Education stories
| Publication | Followers | Education stories (last 8.6d) |
|---|---|---|
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 17 |
| Age of Awareness | 71K | 10 |
| Curated Newsletters | 22K | 9 |
| Math Games | 7.5K | 7 |
| Stacker News | 6 | 7 |
| Write A Catalyst | 213K | 6 |
| The Gravity | 2.1K | 6 |
| Pen With Paper | 22K | 5 |
| ThinkArt | 11K | 5 |
| Lets Shine Together | 24 | 5 |
Top Education stories right now
- “You Said I Could Trust You”
- The Letter I Still Keep After All These Years
- America Has a Massive Problem. And It’s Not Trump
- The Comfortable Box: Are We Preparing Our Children for Life or Keeping Them Away From It?
- We visit the village of Popeye the Sailor Man!
- The Basic Fundamentals of Life Everyone Should Know
- I Read The Cornell Texts To The Victim And It Hit Me Harder Than I Expected
- So, You Want To Study Mathematics?
- A Different View of Autism
- One Real Space: Reflecting on Our Journey to 1K
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Education tag on Medium?
- About 93 per day (648 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 8.6-day window before our last scan. The tag has 394,092 stories in total.
- Is the Education tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 56% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 60,931 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Education?
- 31% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 70% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.