States try to tackle child care shortages — by lowering standards

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-17 05:00:00

College Uncovered: Tag, You’re In!

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-17 05:01:00

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-17 14:00:00

OPINION: Policy changes sweeping the nation are harming our students. Educators must fight back

Here’s a true story from North Carolina. Two elementary school children under the age of 10 waited for their parents to come home. We know they cleaned the dishes; the house was immaculate when ...

Posted 2025-04-23 05:00:00

COLUMN: Teachers, states stepping up to keep climate change education alive as federal government defunds it

This past fall, at an event in New York City’s National Museum of the American Indian, a packed room of educators and federal employees applauded the release of a document titled “Climate ...

Posted 2025-04-22 05:00:00

OPINION: America’s promise of free education should include all children, regardless of immigration status

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump rescinded key protections limiting immigration enforcement in schools and other sensitive locations, a move that overturned long-held policy and ...

Posted 2025-04-22 05:00:00

Whole, skim or soy? The congressional battle over milk in school lunches

This story was produced by Grist and reprinted with permission. In 2010, United States lawmakers passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which aimed to tackle both childhood obesity and hunger ...

Posted 2025-04-21 19:00:00

A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat

When you’re looking for research on four-day school weeks or how to teach fractions, or trying to locate an historical document, such as the landmark Coleman Report of 1966, you might begin ...

Posted 2025-04-21 10:00:00

Schools push career ed classes ‘for all,’ even kids heading to college

This story is part of Hechinger’s ongoing coverage about rethinking high school. See our article about a new diploma in Alabama that trades chemistry for carpentry. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It had ...

Posted 2025-04-21 05:00:00

International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-14 10:00:00