Since a White House executive order last January, 181 colleges have closed or renamed their DEI offices. But renaming the ...

It’s been five years since California and other states started blocking colleges from withholding students’ transcripts for unpaid bills, with the federal government adding restrictions. But some ...

Amid a year of upheaval, were some promising steps taken to elevate children’s issues and pay for programs that support the earliest years of life.

College enrollment is decreasing — the result of declining birthrates and concerns among parents that the financial investment in college isn’t worth it — and fewer students means fewer tuition ...

In 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 gutting of federal early childhood offices to ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. NEW YORK — To Eva ...

First grade teacher Emily VanDerhoff, who is also a member of the Fairfax County NAACP’s education committee, was incorporating phonics into her lessons before Fairfax County renewed its focus on how ...

In 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 gutting of federal early childhood offices to ...

High schoolers depart from Omaha South High Magnet School on a cold January afternoon in Omaha, a diversifying city where public schools are becoming increasingly more segregated as the population of ...

Political science major Andrew LoMonte, center, helps staff the voter registration table in the student center of The College of New Jersey. “You’d think the dysfunction would scare people off, but it ...

Even after seeing a video of this Maryland first grader, injured when he was secluded in a small room at school, state lawmakers were reluctant to ban the practice. Credit: Photo illustration: The ...

Maxwell Eller is majoring in classics and Arturo Padilla in religious studies for health professionals, both at the University of Arizona. “It helped my attention span in a world of YouTube and ...