Higher education is under siege, with many students and parents balking at high costs. In a series of op-eds, university leaders lay out their efforts to keep college…
Read more OPINION: America’s regional public universities can still be a bargain in a sea of high priced optionsThe West Shore school board policy committee meeting came to a halt almost as soon as it began. As a board member started going over the agenda on…
Read more How a legal group’s anti-LGBTQ policies took root in school districts across a stateIn the nearly 13 years since I wrote my first early childhood story for The Hechinger Report, I have never experienced a year quite like 2025. From the…
Read more 5 early childhood education highlights of 2025OAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five…
Read more 5 years after transcript withholding bans began, college students face fewer obstacles but advocates worry about enforcementIt started with Harvard University. Then Notre Dame, Cornell, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Colleges are racing to close or rename their diversity, equity and…
Read more OPINION: Beyond DEI offices, colleges are dismantling all kinds of programs related to equityLUBBOCK, Texas — The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer — and then the litany of injustices came pouring out. A Black high school football…
Read more Probes into racism in schools stall under TrumpEven with a conservative think tank’s blueprint detailing how the second Trump administration should reimagine the federal government’s role in education, few might have predicted what actually materialized…
Read more The Trump administration’s biggest impact on education in 2025Last year, Project 2025 was a conservative wish list: a grab bag of proposals large and small that would transform the federal government, including in education. Months later,…
Read more Trump administration checks off many Project 2025 education goalsOhio resident Megan Cutright lost her hospitality job during the pandemic. At her daughter’s urging, she found her way to Lorain County Community College in Ohio and onto…
Read more OPINION: Workforce Pell can lead to good jobs for students if they get the support needed for long-term success – The Hechinger ReportThe 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers. A camera captured him being forced into a small, empty room with a single paper-covered window. …
Read more As Justice Department priorities shift, concerns about protection of students’ civil rights escalateThe Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education this week provides a rare opportunity to rethink our current top-down approach to school governance. We should jump…
Read more OPINION: It will take patience and courage to fix K-12 education without the Department of EducationAfter decades serving in the Marine Corps and in education, I know firsthand that servant leadership and diplomacy can and should be taught. That’s why I hoped to…
Read more OPINION: A shuttered government was not the lesson I hoped my Texas students would learn on a trip to Washington D.CIn New Jersey, fewer than half of 6- and 7-year-olds in special education spend the vast majority of their day with their classmates without disabilities. That might change,…
Read more NJ advisory group to probe how students with disabilities are separated from their peersMEAD, Wash. — A few weeks after President Donald Trump took office, the conservative school board leaders in this town near the Idaho border made a bet. They…
Read more Red school boards in a blue state asked for Trump’s help — and got itRemiah Ward’s shift at the SmartStyle salon inside Walmart was almost over, and she’d barely made $30 in tips from the haircuts she’d done that day. It…
Read more Cosmetology schools and other certificate programs got exemption from rules on graduates’ earning levelsSchools that train hairstylists, dental assistants and health aides will be able to keep getting federal student loan dollars even if the professionals they turn out don’t end…
Read more Explore the earnings for graduates of beauty schools, other certificate programsFrom Texas to Florida to Arizona, school voucher policies are reshaping the landscape of American education. The Trump administration champions federal support for voucher expansion, and many state-level…
Read more OPINION: The push to expand school choice should not diminish civic educationAmerica’s future is not made in factories or innovation labs — it’s forged in classrooms. We can’t bring good jobs back to U.S. shores if we don’t first…
Read more OPINION: NAEP scores show we need new approaches, more resources and all hands on deck to address underlying education problemsEverywhere you look, someone is telling students and workers to “learn AI.” It’s become the go-to advice for staying employable, relevant and prepared for the future. But here’s…
Read more OPINION: If we are going to build AI literacy into every level of learning, we must be able to measure itAfter a three-year pause prompted by the pandemic, the clock on student loan repayments suddenly started ticking again in September 2023, and forbearance ended last September. For millions…
Read more OPINION: The resumption of student loan payments means students will need new policies — and our help