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Nurses are in high demand but nursing schools struggle tp provide enough slots to train them
Across the country, there is enormous demand for nurses, as retirement or burnout push many from the field. Despite tens of thousands of students fighting to get into nursing programs, schools can’t accommodate that demand, for two major reasons: They can’t find enough faculty to teach classes and there is a dearth of the required hands-on training opportunities in hospitals and health care facilities.
OPINION: Higher Education must help shape how students learn, lead and build the skills employers want most
The real question about college isn’t whether it prepares students for careers. It’s how. And the “how” of the college experience is more complex, personal and misunderstood than most people realize.
STUDENT VOICE: Learning to debate is an important facet of education, but too often public school students are left out
Debate is an effective way to strengthen students’ comprehension, critical thinking and presentation skills. Yet for many, a lack of school support is a major entry barrier. It has turned debate into another private-school-dominated space. This should change.
Education Department takes a preliminary step toward revamping its research and statistics arm
A request for public comment about reforming IES adds to the signs that the Trump administration is partially reversing course and wants the federal government to retain a role in generating education statistics and evidence for what works in classrooms.
OPINION: After-school and summer programs can help more students learn to embrace numbers and become ‘math people’ after all
In everyday life and across nearly every industry, mathematical reasoning is becoming more essential. We need to rapidly expand access to the after-school and summer programs that help young people develop the confidence and curiosity to build math skills.
Explore the earnings for graduates of beauty schools, other certificate programs
A Hechinger Report analysis of federal data found at least 1,280 certificate programs could have been at risk of their students losing access to taking out federal student loans — but a successful lobbying effort excluded them from the accountability measures.
Cosmetology schools and other certificate programs got exemption from rules on graduates’ earning levels
Cosmetology schools and other certificate programs (short-term programs for specific trades) were exempted from new legislation requiring that all colleges whose graduates don’t earn at least as much as someone with a high school diploma will risk losing access to federal student loans.
Rural Ohio relies on Head Start. Trump is worrying people in the region who need this free child care
Close to half of its seats in this federally funded free program are located in areas outside towns and cities. But federal staff cuts and funding showdowns may hurt some of the same voters in rural areas in Ohio and elsewhere who swept the administration into office.
OPINION: Rural community colleges are uniquely positioned to tackle complex regional challenges and drive community transformation. Here's how.
Rural community colleges must become rural development hubs, delivering value by bridging economic, social and civic sectors to address regional challenges. Here are three lessons from high-performing rural community colleges on how to meet that challenge.
Public school kids were already going missing. Now schools are poised to see sharper enrollment declines
Between students gone missing, the choices some Black families and families in high-poverty districts are making and how many kids are being born, public school enrollment is dramatically decreasing.
OPINION: With students back on campus, schools need a broader approach for addressing their mental health needs
Many colleges are facing a steady surge in mental health crises, but the infrastructure hasn’t kept pace. Institutions need to create systems to foster early identification and broad community support.
OPINION: We cannot afford to dismantle Head Start, a program that builds futures, strengthens families and delivers proven returns
For many families, Head Start is the first place outside the home where a child’s potential is nurtured and celebrated. Yet, this program that builds futures and strengthens families is now under threat, and it’s imperative that we protect it.
OPINION: NAEP scores show we need new approaches, more resources and all hands on deck to address underlying education problems
The latest NAEP scores paint a grim picture, but progress in American education has generally been stalled for at least a decade. Leaders at every level need to stop using the pandemic as an excuse and start looking for solutions.
A window into America’s high schools slams shut - The Hechinger Report
This story was reported by and originally published by APM Reports in connection with its podcast Sold a Story: How Teach Kids to Read Went So Wrong. The choices you make as a teenager can shape the rest of your life. If you take high school classes for college credit, you’re more likely to enroll at a university. […]
OPINION: Let's reshape the liberal arts with a focus on applied learning, internships and training for jobs of the future and let faculty lead the way
The liberal arts evolved to meet the needs of society and the state of knowledge but were created for the industrial era. They are badly dated and must be rethought to prepare students for the global, digital, knowledge economy in which they will live their lives.
Lawsuit saves massive reading experiment
The Trump administration tried to kill the largest reading experiment ever funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s research arm — just months before the yearslong study was complete. The administration agreed to finish the research only after it was sued.
OPINION: As they face conflicting messages about AI, some advice for educators on how to use it responsibly
Even as educators are optimistic about AI’s potential, they are cautious and sometimes resistant to it. What should responsible educators do? As a learning scientist who has been involved in research about AI and about learning for decades, I have some ideas.
OPINION: If we are going to build AI literacy into every level of learning, we must be able to measure it
Students and workers are being told to “learn AI.” But while definitions of AI literacy are starting to emerge, we still lack a consistent, measurable framework to know whether someone is truly ready to use AI effectively and responsibly.
OPINION: AI can be a great equalizer, but it remains out of reach for millions of Americans; the Universal Service Fund can expand access
The digital divide is a persistent crisis — exacerbated by AI — that deepens societal inequities, and we must rally around one of the most effective tools we have to combat it: the Universal Service Fund.
Being shut out of required courses is delaying college students’ graduation
Fifty-seven percent of college students have to spend more time and money on college because their campuses don’t offer required courses when they need them. Mounting layoffs and budget problems now threaten to make this problem worse.
New Jersey’s ‘Abbott districts’ are 25 years into offering free, high quality pre-K, but at least 10,000 eligible kids haven’t enrolled
Twenty-five years ago, New Jersey was ordered to open preschools for children in low-income urban districts to help make up for funding disparities. Now, supporters fear the preschool program is not getting the attention they need from the state.
OPINION: College president fears that federal education cuts will derail the promise of student parents, student military veterans and first-gen students
We do not yet know the education cuts Congress will consider once funding from a continuing resolution expires in September. But the president’s proposed cuts to education, health and housing could reverse a decade of progress in college accessibility.