How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

Posted 2025-02-22 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

SUPAI, Ariz. — Kambria Siyuja always felt like the smartest kid in Supai.  Raised by educators in this tribal village at the base of the Grand Canyon, she started kindergarten a little ahead of her peers. Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run […] The post How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Little school on the prairie: How keeping school land wild can combat climate change

Posted 2025-02-20 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

HOUSTON — When Jefferson Early Learning Center first opened on the corner of a busy intersection in the city’s west side in 2022, school officials started receiving calls from irritated residents. It wasn’t the increase in traffic or the noise from loud preschoolers that was the source of the callers’ ire. It was the wild, […] The post Little school on the prairie: How keeping school land wild can combat climate change appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Tracking Trump: His actions on education 

Posted 2025-02-19 16:00:00 by: Melinda King

Since taking office Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has unleashed a flurry of orders and actions designed to reshape the federal government’s role in education. He has called the Education Department a “con job” and said he wants to close it “immediately.” That would take an act of Congress; but in the meantime, the administration […] The post Tracking Trump: His actions on education  appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting

Posted 2025-02-19 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

ATLANTA — Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams’ kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns of 10. Their assignment was to pick a numbered tile and figure out where it should go on the board. The task seems […] The post The building blocks of math that students need to excel — but aren’t always getting appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds

Posted 2025-02-18 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

HOUSTON — Jefferson Early Learning Center bears little resemblance to elementary schools many adults recall attending in their earliest years. The classrooms have child-sized boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. There are no desks — all space is devoted to learning through play. Windows are low […] The post Districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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DOGE’s death blow to education studies

Posted 2025-02-17 11:00:00 by: Melinda King

A virtual wrecking ball took aim last Monday at the relatively small, wonky corner of the Department of Education that I write about every week: evaluation studies and data collection. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) posted on X that it had terminated 89 of these contracts worth $881 million.  These particular cuts stunned people involved […] The post DOGE’s death blow to education studies appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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STUDENT VOICE: Humanities are in trouble in the state of Florida. We need a shift in culture

Posted 2025-02-17 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

I’ve always known my educational goals: enroll in college as a humanities major, explore the literature I love and eventually attend law school. I’m a junior in college now, closer to the end of that journey than the start. My journey hasn’t changed, but the environment surrounding it has. In the last 10 years, enrollment […] The post STUDENT VOICE: Humanities are in trouble in the state of Florida. We need a shift in culture appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected

Posted 2025-02-13 16:59:00 by: Melinda King

UPDATE: The Senate education committee voted to advance her nomination, which must now be voted on by the whole chamber. Linda McMahon said she stands firmly behind President Donald Trump’s calls to gut the U.S. Department of Education at her confirmation hearing to lead the department. This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with […] The post Education nominee McMahon says she supports calls to dismantle the agency but that funding wouldn’t be affected appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly 

Posted 2025-02-11 11:00:00 by: Melinda King

TUCSON, Ariz. — Olivia Howe was hesitant at first to add French to her major in finance at the University of Arizona, fearing that it wouldn’t be very useful in the labor market. Then her language skills helped her land a job at the multinational technology company Siemens, which will be waiting for her when […] The post Colleges rebrand humanities majors as job-friendly  appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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America’s kids are still behind in reading and math. These schools are defying the trend

Posted 2025-02-11 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. Math is the subject sixth grader Harmoni Knight finds hardest, but that’s changing. In-class tutors and “data chats” at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a dramatic difference, the 11-year-old said. She proudly pulled up a performance tracker at a tutoring […] The post America’s kids are still behind in reading and math. These schools are defying the trend appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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