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Trump picks Linda McMahon to lead, and possibly dismantle, Education Department - The Hechinger Report
This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with permission. Former professional wrestling executive and billionaire Linda McMahon is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Education, an agency Trump has pledged to dismantle. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat McMahon would come to the post with sparse education experience. She led […]
OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school - The Hechinger Report
By 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Now is the time to change the way we think about meeting both immediate labor shortages and future work demands by expanding postsecondary pathways.
OPINION: Why I view the ban on legacy admissions at California’s private universities with skepticism - The Hechinger Report
Banning legacy admission is unlikely to be the solution to racial inequality that some are casting it as. There is much we can do to address racial inequality, but it won’t be through banning legacy status in the most selective institutions.
Texas Legislature will approve school vouchers, boost public education spending, governor says - The Hechinger Report
This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. After a wave of Texas Republicans dominated the ballot box on Election Day, Gov. Greg Abbott expressed confidence last week that he now has enough votes in […]
OPINION: We can do better than remedial ed - The Hechinger Report
Colleges funnel hundreds of thousands of first-year students into remediation courses every year, yet relatively few complete the courses, let alone graduate. Replacing traditional prerequisite remediation with corequisite support is one of higher education’s greatest opportunities.
OPINION: Too many students are left behind by our rigid, rules-based approach to teaching math
With the right approach to teaching math, everyone can learn and do math. There is no special “math gene” that naturally makes some people better at math than others. It starts with a focus on comprehension and on making math more welcoming.
OPINION: Encouraging Black and Latinx students to apply to selective colleges has become more urgent than ever - The Hechinger Report
Too many highly qualified students shy away from applying to college because they were sent a message that they wouldn’t get in without affirmative action. We must encourage our Black and Latinx students to apply to college. Mentoring is a critical catalyst.
College Uncovered: Abortion on the ballot … and in the mail - The Hechinger Report
Greater Boston – a region famous for its sheer number of colleges – is also home to an underground network that helps women get access to abortion pills. This story also appeared in GBH News Every week, a group including many Boston-area college and medical students meets to put together abortion pill “care packages” to […]
OPINION: Parents should be not freaked out when their kids want to pursue an arts education - The Hechinger Report
A performing arts education not only enhances one’s ability to learn — building listening skills, developing empathy and perseverance, enhancing focus and creating opportunities to express emotions — it also equips students with skills that translate to life as we now live it.
Dual enrollment has exploded. But it's hard to tell if it's helping more kids get a college degree
A new analysis released in October 2024 by the Community College Research Center (CCRC), at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center tracked what happened to every high school student who started taking dual enrollment classes in 2015.
OPINION: Teachers had ideas for improving education after the pandemic. We failed to listen - The Hechinger Report
Teachers developed creative and sometimes novel solutions to problems they encountered daily during the pandemic. Post-pandemic, administrators have failed to listen to and embrace those solutions.
Tribal college campuses are falling apart. The U.S. hasn’t fulfilled its promise to fund the schools. - The Hechinger Report
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In the 1970s, Congress committed to funding a higher education system controlled by Indigenous communities. These tribal colleges and universities were intended to serve students who’d been disadvantaged by the nation’s history […]
OPINION: Why we need a joint and urgent effort to teach data science and literacy in the U.S. - The Hechinger Report
SEO: American K-12 education underemphasizes data science and data literacy skills — including the ability to understand qualitative and quantitative data and assess claims based on data. With 1 in 4 job postings in the U.S. requiring data science skills, now is the time to emphasize those skills.
How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average - The Hechinger Report
Nationally, fewer than half of Pell Grant recipients graduate from four-year colleges within six years. But a handful of colleges with high numbers of Pell students are graduating them at the 62 percent national rate or higher.
OPINION: Rethinking civics education starts with inviting teens to co-create - The Hechinger Report
What has been missing from civics education for decades is deep civic learning, in which students come to understand what a good democratic government looks and feels like and deeply connect with their own capacity to shape the future.