COLUMN: Trump is bullying, blackmailing and threatening colleges, and they are just beginning to fight back

Posted 2025-04-17 14:00:00 by: Melinda King

Patricia McGuire has always been an outspoken advocate for her students at Trinity Washington University, a small, Catholic institution that serves largely Black and Hispanic women, just a few miles from the White House. She’s also criticized what she calls “the Trump administration’s wholesale assault on freedom of speech and human rights.” In her 36 […] The post COLUMN: Trump is bullying, blackmailing and threatening colleges, and they are just beginning to fight back appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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College Uncovered: Tag, You’re In!

Posted 2025-04-17 05:01:00 by: Melinda King

What if colleges started applying to you instead of the other way around? The anxiety-inducing college admissions game is changing. With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. That’s 18 years after the Great Recession, when many […] The post College Uncovered: Tag, You’re In! appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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College Uncovered: The Demographic Cliff

Posted 2025-04-17 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Most Americans would probably rather forget the Great Recession that began in 2007. But as long ago as it may seem, it triggered something that is about to become a big problem: Americans started having fewer babies, and the birth rate hasn’t recovered since. That means a looming decline in the number if 18-year-olds. Since […] The post College Uncovered: The Demographic Cliff appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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States try to tackle child care shortages — by lowering standards

Posted 2025-04-17 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

When this year’s legislative session launched in Idaho, early childhood experts and advocates were hopeful that the state, which has a shortage of child care, would invest more in early learning programs. Instead, lawmakers proposed what may be the most extreme effort yet to deregulate child care in America: The bill called for eliminating state […] The post States try to tackle child care shortages — by lowering standards appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: For our republic to survive, education leaders must remain firm in the face of authoritarianism

Posted 2025-04-16 16:45:00 by: Melinda King

I know something about standing up to the authoritarian impulses of the MAGA movement. I resigned as Kentucky’s commissioner of education in late 2023 rather than enforce the GOP-dominated state legislature’s shameful law aimed at erasing and marginalizing LGBTQ+ students. The Trump administration has escalated these attacks from hostile rhetoric directed toward students and K-12 […] The post OPINION: For our republic to survive, education leaders must remain firm in the face of authoritarianism appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT

Posted 2025-04-14 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 changed the world. A chatbot could instantly write paragraphs and papers, a task once thought to be uniquely human. Though it may take many years to understand the full consequences, a team of data scientists wanted to study how college writing might already be affected. The researchers […] The post International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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STUDENT VOICE: I’m thriving in my dual-enrollment program, but it could be a whole lot better

Posted 2025-04-14 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Taking college courses through dual enrollment has been the most rewarding part of my high school experience so far. As a teenager at Lake Nona High School in Orlando, I get to explore my interests in public relations and communications by taking courses at a nearby community college, Valencia. Dual enrollment in college classrooms is […] The post STUDENT VOICE: I’m thriving in my dual-enrollment program, but it could be a whole lot better appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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After the wildfires, Beverly Hills shut out students whose school burned

Posted 2025-04-10 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

LOS ANGELES — After the Palisades Fire destroyed her son’s high school, Shoshanha Essakhar found herself among the thousands of Los Angeles County parents wondering what to do. “I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to be doing Zoom for the next God knows how long,’” said Essakhar. “It was a lot of fear, […] The post After the wildfires, Beverly Hills shut out students whose school burned appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Schools relying on digital surveillance find security still takes a human touch

Posted 2025-04-09 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

The Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, is investigating the unintended consequences of AI-powered surveillance at schools. Members of the Collaborative are AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, The Hechinger Report, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times. RIGBY, Idaho […] The post Schools relying on digital surveillance find security still takes a human touch appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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A new kind of high school diploma trades chemistry for carpentry

Posted 2025-04-09 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In a corner of Huffman High School, the sounds of popping nail guns and whirring table saws fill the architecture and construction classroom. Down the hall, culinary students chop and saute in the school’s commercial kitchen, and in another room, cosmetology students snip mannequin hair to prepare for the state’s natural hair […] The post A new kind of high school diploma trades chemistry for carpentry appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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