Attacking DACA during a national tragedy is divisive and un-neighborly
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View ArticleHow the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Leslie Williams stands in the North Smithfield community park. She grew up in the neighborhood and currently lives there with her children. Photo: Tamika Moore for The Hechinger Report On weekends,...
View ArticleOPINION: As New York City public schools open, here are three strategies to...
Meg Ray, a computer science teacher in the Bronx, creates video lessons for her computer science students. As U.S. states roll out the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act under an administration hostile...
View ArticleSTUDENT VOICES: DACA students worry about ‘really tough times’ ahead
Following President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation, some of America’s...
View ArticleOPINION: The case for investing in high-quality early learning
File photo Photo: Lillian Mongeau Imagine a preschool classroom where every child is engaged in positive social, emotional and developmental learning activities. Children would be smiling and happy,...
View ArticleWho is keeping student data safe in the era of digital learning?
As students spend more time on digital devices in school, data security becomes increasingly important. When Baltimore County Public Schools started giving every student a computer for daily use in...
View ArticleThe threat of Big Brother undermines a push to gather data about college...
The promise of big data versus the menace of Big Brother. That’s the storyline of an unlikely, behind-the-scenes battle being waged over a plan to help Americans know their odds of graduating on time...
View ArticleNew research questions the value of certificates pushed by colleges,...
NEW YORK — It was after caring for her aging mother that Carmen Zapata got the idea of working as a home health aide. After all, an aging population is driving up demand; the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
View ArticleShould college students’ money be paying for controversial speakers and...
Katherine Kerwin, legislative affairs chair of the University of Wisconsin’s student government, and Jordan Gaal, chair of the Student Services Finance Committee. Both are pushing back a proposal by...
View ArticleStates will soon be free to transform standardized testing, but most won’t
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View ArticleIn an era of inequity, more and more college financial aid is going to the rich
Maya Portillo at the New York City lab where she studies how children from different socioeconomic backgrounds develop language skills. In a system that benefits her wealthier classmates to a...
View ArticleCharter school leaders are complicit with segregation, and it’s hurting their...
A charter school in New Orleans. Photo: Cheryl Gerber Charter schools didn’t create segregation but the charter school movement isn’t helping to end it either. When Martin Luther King Jr. said, “We...
View ArticleNever mind Trump’s visit — Mississippi’s new Civil Rights Museum is a real...
Ashley Walker of Jackson took four-year-old daughter Ava to the museum’s interactive schoolhouse exhibit. Photo: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report JACKSON, Miss. – Nothing President Donald J. Trump said...
View ArticleOPINION: Is this tax plan a dream-crusher for higher ed’s food service...
The United States Capitol. Photo: Kathleen Kordek University presidents are often asked: “What keeps you up at night?” Among the various issues that I worry about, the most frequent relate to the...
View ArticleInternet access in schools: E-rate trends and the end of net neutrality
Students in classrooms nationwide depend on reliable internet to get the most out of their lessons. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of...
View ArticleOPINION: When it comes to educational research, getting there is half the battle
The reading room of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Photo: The Washington Times/ZUMAPRESS.com If Jane Smith in Arkansas invented a method to ensure the success of rural English language...
View ArticleOPINION: Eliminating the funding that supports educators? That’s no way to...
The Capitol, Washington, D.C. From the mountains of Tennessee to the West Side of Chicago, teachers represent our best chance of achieving the goal we have for every child in this country to graduate...
View ArticleEclipsed by urban counterparts, rural nonwhites go to college at equally low...
High school students sit in a rural Mississippi school classroom. Only about half of graduates from predominantly nonwhite, low-income rural high schools go to college, the same proportion as their...
View ArticleChristian conservatives are trying to turn bigoted policies into higher...
The dedication ceremony of the LGBTQ Rainbow Freedom Flag at the Stonewall National Monument, marking the first time the LGBTQ Rainbow Flag will be displayed permanently in New York City. Photo by...
View ArticleOPINION: Does the Trump budget proposal force the U.S. to pick winners and...
The Capitol, Washington, D.C. Despite the rhetoric coming out of Washington, D.C. about the American Dream, the proposed budget released by President Trump’s administration would have a harmful effect...
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