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America’s child care system relies on immigrants. Without them, it could collapse - The Hechinger Report
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Maggi’s home in a suburban neighborhood here is a haven for local families. It’s a place where after just a few weeks in Maggi’s family-run child care program this spring, one preschooler started calling Maggi “mama” and Maggi’s husband “papa.” Children who have graduated from Maggi’s program still beg their parents to […]
Suddenly sacked
Peggy Carr, the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2021, with her six-year term set to expire June 2027. Carr had been with the Education Department for more than 35 years before the Trump administration placed her on administrative leave on February 24, 2025.
OPINION: Let’s remove the roadblocks to four-year STEM degrees for community college transfer students
Community colleges should be an avenue into high-value STEM degrees for students from low-income backgrounds, but just 2 percent of students who begin at a community college earn a STEM bachelor’s degree within six years. Here are ways to improve the process.
Hard up for students, more colleges are offering college credit for life experience, or ‘prior learning’
There’s new momentum behind letting students cash in their life skills toward degrees, saving them time and money and helping colleges recruit new customers by giving what’s called credit for prior learning.
OPINION: America’s future depends on more first-generation students from underestimated communities earning an affordable bachelor’s degree
An affordable bachelor’s degree remains the No. 1 lever for financial, professional and social mobility in America — and we need more college graduates. Yet supports for first-generation college students are eroding. This needs to change.
International students are critical to US colleges. See which could be hit hardest by a ban
As the Trump administration announces sweeping steps to make it more difficult for colleges and universities to welcome international students, some schools are more vulnerable than others to potential drops in enrollment.
OPINION: Our education system continues to under-deliver civic education for the very students most committed to improving their communities and our democracy
Black youth are frequently among the most civically engaged young people in the country, yet they are too often absent from conversations about civic excellence and receive too little civic education.
From gangs to college
High school staff often treat students they suspect of gang involvement differently, tracking them into classes that leave them unprepared to matriculate and counseling them out of applying to four-year colleges, research shows. One federal program worked to change how gang-involved adolescents view college and are supported through it.
OPINION: We have to work together to improve school culture and make our public schools great places to teach, work and learn
The persistent chaos and confusion and rigid policies in our schools choke the joy out of learning and breed an education culture defined by fear and distrust, turf wars and a widely acknowledged resistance to change. To fix our schools, we must improve school culture.
Colleges are racing to create AI courses in order to keep up with widespread job market demands
Generative artificial intelligence technology is rapidly changing the labor market. In response, colleges are increasingly looking for ways to offer AI courses to their students to keep up with employer demands.
Behind the turmoil of federal attacks on colleges, some states are coming after tenure
Behind the turmoil of the many other challenges to higher education during the new Trump administration, state legislatures across the country are weakening or gutting the long-standing faculty protection of tenure.
OPINION: Clamping down on good, publicly available higher education data will send our system into a dark spiral
Cuts to the Department of Education, including positions that involve data collection and analysis, threaten our domestic progress and could trigger a decline in the very qualities that have made American higher education the envy of the world.
OPINION: Teaching children through diverse and inclusive books improves their educational outcomes — Mahmoud v. Taylor could end that
In Mahmoud v. Taylor, parents claim that a Maryland county’s board of education violated their religious rights by failing to provide an opt-out for their children from a read-aloud of a book with LGBTQ+ themes. The decision could have wide ramifications.
OPINION: Trusted reporting is needed more than ever, so let’s have school newspapers pave the way for the next generation
Americans are losing trust in journalism and turning away from legacy media and local newspapers are closing at an alarming rate. There is a great way to address these challenges: School newspapers. But too few schools have them.
STUDENT VOICE: The Trump administration creates a moment of reckoning for higher education
The Trump administration has undertaken draconian efforts to gut education research and dismantle public education, including our higher education system, often considered to be the world’s best. We need to defend education.
Education researchers lose to Trump administration in first round of court challenge
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., denied a request by four education research trade associations for a preliminary injunction, which means that the Education Department doesn’t have to temporarily reinstate fired employees and canceled contracts within its research and data arm, the Institute of Education Sciences.
A South Dakota museum takes students on flights to the stars, but future trips are in question because of cuts from the Trump administration cuts
The Institute for Museum and Library Services was established in 1996 and is the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries like the South Dakota Discovery Center in Pierre. The Trump administration wants to cut IMLS because officials say it provides money to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, but cutting the program could imperil small libraries and museums.
OPINION: Educators have the tools but not the training or ethical framework to use AI in education wisely. And that’s a problem
The use of AI in education has risks, but it could help personalize learning and free teachers to spend more time doing what only humans can do: connect, mentor, care. Let’s ensure we get this right — by aligning educators and tech experts around what matters most: student outcomes.