4 ways for-profit colleges could benefit from a new Trump term

Posted 2024-12-20 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

For-profit college officials and their investors celebrated Donald Trump’s return to the White House, but the policies they favor may come with more strings attached than during his first term in office. There will be similarities — Trump won’t be interested in limiting the growth of the for-profit college industry, as recent Democratic administrations were, […] The post 4 ways for-profit colleges could benefit from a new Trump term appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Four ways for-profit colleges could benefit from a new Trump term

Posted 2024-12-20 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

For-profit college officials and their investors celebrated Donald Trump’s return to the White House, but the policies they favor may come with more strings attached than during his first term in office. There will be similarities — Trump won’t be interested in limiting the growth of the for-profit college industry, as recent Democratic administrations were, […] The post Four ways for-profit colleges could benefit from a new Trump term appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Parents on the hunt for child care say it feels like ‘The Hunger Games’

Posted 2024-12-20 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

The first hint that my 6-month-old may not have been receiving high-quality care came in fall of 2016, when I arrived early to pick him up from his child care program in Manhattan. I saw half-a-dozen infants lounging in bouncers placed around the room, largely ignored while two caregivers sat on the floor cutting out […] The post Parents on the hunt for child care say it feels like ‘The Hunger Games’ appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Apprenticeships are a trending alternative to college — but there’s a hitch

Posted 2024-12-17 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

Joey Cook was 17 and a junior in high school when he heard about a way to learn a profession while getting paid: by landing an apprenticeship, a path into the workforce that everyone was suddenly talking about as an alternative to college. “I didn’t want to go get an associate degree. I didn’t want […] The post Apprenticeships are a trending alternative to college — but there’s a hitch appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Looking for internships? They are in short supply

Posted 2024-12-17 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

Not only are there growing concerns about the supply of apprenticeships meeting demand; there’s a shortage of another important workforce training tool — internships. There were an estimated 5.7 million fewer high-quality internships last year than learners who wanted to intern, according to the Business-Higher Education Forum, or BHEF. Employers last year provided 2.5 million […] The post Looking for internships? They are in short supply appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: As book bans reach historic levels, more educators should get involved in school governance

Posted 2024-12-17 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

The number of book bans in schools and libraries nearly tripled during the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, across red and blue states, according to a recent PEN America report. But that alarming statistic does not necessarily reflect how most voters feel about this growing form of censorship. As President-elect Donald Trump promises […] The post OPINION: As book bans reach historic levels, more educators should get involved in school governance appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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6 observations from a devastating international math test

Posted 2024-12-16 11:00:00 by: Melinda King

Country rankings of eighth graders on the 2023 TIMSS An abysmal showing by U.S. students on a recent international math test flabbergasted typically restrained education researchers.“It looks like student achievement just fell off a cliff,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist at the American Institutes for Research. The 2023 results of the Trends in International Mathematics […] The post 6 observations from a devastating international math test appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: Mental health screening tools, surveys and immediate referrals can help struggling college students recover and return to class

Posted 2024-12-16 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

I work daily with students as an academic adviser. I have referred many of them to my college’s counseling and psychological services office and have helped multiple students withdraw from all their classes due to immediate mental health crises. Many students struggle with mental health so much that they feel they cannot stay in school. […] The post OPINION: Mental health screening tools, surveys and immediate referrals can help struggling college students recover and return to class appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care

Posted 2024-12-16 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

NEW YORK — To keep working, Amy Lee Funes desperately needed help paying for child care. Funes loved her job at a New York City-based child and family nonprofit, but she earned only $35,000 a year. In a city where child care can easily consume more than half of that, Funes was optimistic that she […] The post Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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COLUMN: Fewer race-based scholarships and a new culture of fear follow the end of affirmative action

Posted 2024-12-14 06:00:00 by: Melinda King

While applying to colleges last year, Hamza Parker became a casualty of one of the more tangible aspects of the conservative Supreme Court’s landmark decision to end affirmative action in college admissions: sudden cutbacks in race-based scholarships. Parker’s college advisor, Atnre Alleyne, had steered him toward a host of campuses that once provided generous scholarships […] The post COLUMN: Fewer race-based scholarships and a new culture of fear follow the end of affirmative action appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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