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Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But it’s not clear whether this policy — unpopular with students and a headache for teachers to enforce — makes an academic difference. If student achievement goes up after a cellphone ban, it’s tough […] The post Cellphone bans can help kids learn — but Black students are suspended...
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Pizza Days and Chicken Wings: A Kitchen Manager’s Recipe for Connecting with Kids
What’s it like to go from feeding four people at home to over 400 in an industrial kitchen? For our latest installment of Role Call, we find out from a ...
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:OPINION: We cannot let higher education become a gated community for the wealthy, but that’s exactly where it is headed
Washington lawmakers and the Trump administration passed a major legislative package this summer that will cut funding for programs that help students from low-income backgrounds — making it far harder for these students to afford and complete college. The leaders behind these cuts claim that they’re necessary to curb wasteful spending and keep higher education […] The post OPINION: We cannot let higher education...
Published on: October 20, 2025 | Source:Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education office
Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group that works on behalf of millions of students with dyslexia and other disorders. Jacqueline Rodriguez, NCLD’s chief executive officer, recalled pressing McMahon on a question […] The post Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump...
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Teachers Are on the Front Lines of Public Health. Let’s Pay Them Like They Matter.
With youth mental health in freefall, teachers are among the first line of defense against teen suicide. Paying teachers a wage that matches the ...
Published on: October 17, 2025 | Source:Getting preemies the help they need
Every year, tens of thousands of infants are born prematurely, at a low birthweight, or with other conditions that would make them automatically eligible for therapeutic services that could help them thrive. When everything goes smoothly, early intervention provides those services, required by federal law for children ages birth to 3. Funding sources for the […] The post Getting preemies the help they need appeared...
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:Parents Think Their Kids Are Getting a Good Education. The Public Disagrees.
“When it comes down to their own children, parents do not have a sense of helplessness or learned helplessness” about education.
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:As more question the value of a degree, colleges fight to prove their return on investment
This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. WASHINGTON – For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college — or whether to go at all — has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its […] The post As more question the value of a degree, colleges fight to prove their return on investment...
Published on: October 16, 2025 | Source:How I Found Leadership Without Leaving the Classroom
Very few people want to be stuck doing the same thing for the rest of their lives. Even if educators view their career as a calling, the desire to grow ...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:Big Oil should help foot the bill for lost school time, students say
This story originally appeared in Hechinger’s climate and education newsletter. Sign up for it here. Last January, Diego Sandoval’s high school in San Diego County closed abruptly one Friday because of wildfires menacing the Southern California area. Classmates evacuated their homes as the fire spread. Frida Vergara, whose school was among the few in the […] The post Big Oil should help foot the bill for lost school...
Published on: October 15, 2025 | Source:What Do We Know About the Edtech Services That Watch Students?
After talking with teens lobbying against the dark sides of AI, EdSurge asks: “What’s known about the companies that schools use to monitor students?” ...
Published on: October 14, 2025 | Source:Red school boards in a blue state asked Trump for help — and got it
MEAD, Wash. — A few weeks after President Donald Trump took office, the conservative school board leaders in this town near the Idaho border made a bet. They would pit one Washington against the other and see what happened. For years, Democrats in control of the state had required every school district to have policies […] The post Red school boards in a blue state asked Trump for help —and got it appeared first on The...
Published on: October 14, 2025 | Source:Some social emotional lessons improve how kids do at school, Yale study finds
Social emotional learning — lessons in soft skills like listening to people you disagree with or calming yourself down before a test — has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. The conservative political group Moms for Liberty opposes SEL, as it is often abbreviated, telling parents that its “goal is to psychologically manipulate students […] The post Some social emotional lessons improve how kids do at school, Yale...
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:After years of quietly falling, college tuition is on the rise again
Summer usually provides a respite for Connor Pavlicko from his duties as student body president at Slippery Rock University. But this summer, he was bombarded by classmates demanding to know why their tuition was suddenly going up. What made these students particularly angry was that the 3.6 percent increase followed a span since 2018 in […] The post After years of quietly falling, college tuition is on the rise again...
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:TEACHER VOICE: My students don’t need to be taught resilience. They demonstrate it every single day
I teach introductory college courses to aspiring medical assistants, medical coding and billing specialists, dental assistants and pharmacy technicians. I tell them that college — and life — will knock them down, but they must get back up and get back to it. I also share my own story of how I initially failed out […] The post TEACHER VOICE: My students don’t need to be taught resilience. They demonstrate it every...
Published on: October 13, 2025 | Source:The Stricter the Cellphone Policy, the Happier the Teacher, Research Finds
What happens when schools restrict students’ access to their cellphones? Preliminary findings from a new national survey give us a clue.
Published on: October 09, 2025 | Source:What My Students With Disabilities Taught Me About Career-Connected Learning
This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here.I’ve spent more than a decade as a special education ...
Published on: October 08, 2025 | Source:As Tuition Rises, Free-College Programs Are as Relevant as Ever
“Promise programs continue to put a beacon out there and say, ‘this is attainable and these barriers can be removed,’” says Von Washington Jr., who ...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:COLUMN: Trump’s push for ‘patriotic’ education could further chill history instruction
High school history teacher Antoine Stroman says he wants his students to ask “the hard questions” — about slavery, Jim Crow, the murder of George Floyd and other painful episodes that have shaped the United States. Now, Stroman worries that President Donald Trump’s push for “patriotic education” could complicate the direct, factual way he teaches […] The post COLUMN: Trump’s push for ‘patriotic’ education could...
Published on: October 07, 2025 | Source:Civil Rights Data Collection for Schools Resumes, With Changes on Gender and Discipline
"Any delay in implementation would leave schools and communities in the dark, making it harder to spot disparities and act on them."
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:Nurses are in high demand. Why can’t nursing schools keep up?
LOS ANGELES — Oscar Mateo dreamed of being an artist, but after he got leukemia when he was 20, his life plans abruptly changed. The compassionate nursing care he received while hospitalized touched him so much that he decided he wanted to provide the same for others. That impulse led him to the registered nursing […] The post Nurses are in high demand. Why can’t nursing schools keep up? appeared first on The Hechinger...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:OPINION: Higher education must help shape how students learn, lead and build the skills employers want most
For the first time in more than a decade, confidence in the nation’s colleges and universities is rising. Forty-two percent of Americans now say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, up from 36 percent last year. It’s a welcome shift, but it’s certainly not time for institutions […] The post OPINION: Higher education must help shape how students learn, lead and build the skills...
Published on: October 06, 2025 | Source:In the Land of Hollywood, Filmmaking Is a Natural Teaching Tool
“It sparks their creativity, it allows them to work collaboratively with their peers, it really unites our group."
Published on: October 03, 2025 | Source:Spend more federal money on child care, rural parents say
Hello! This is Christina Samuels, the early education editor here at Hechinger. By now, I hope you’ve had a chance to read my colleague Jackie Mader’s story about the important role that Head Start plays in rural communities. While Jackie set her story in western Ohio, she also interviewed Head Start parents and leaders in […] The post Spend more federal money on child care, rural parents say appeared first on The...
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:Career Readiness in the Real World [Podcast]
As industries evolve and the skills gap widens, the question remains: How can we better connect education to employment? In this episode of The Idea ...
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:Who Supervises Students in Virtual Schools?
While school drop-offs may not be at play, parents find a new host of rules to abide by with virtual schooling.
Published on: October 02, 2025 | Source:The End of Either/Or: Preparing Students for College — and Career
For many years, students often felt they had to choose between college or a career. One path was widely viewed as academic and prestigious, while the ...
Published on: October 01, 2025 | Source:I Was an ‘A Student’ — Until I Realized Grades Don’t Measure Learning
This story was published by a Voices of Change fellow. Learn more about the fellowship here.I was a kid who thrived on the positive reinforcement of ...
Published on: October 01, 2025 | Source:From Defense to Resilience: Where School Cybersecurity Goes Next
The future of cybersecurity in schools is to build resilience. As one district IT director puts it, “we’re asking how we can get in front of this and ...
Published on: September 30, 2025 | Source:STUDENT VOICE: Learning to debate is an important facet of education, but too often public school students are left out
Ever since I first stepped onto the debate stage, I have been passionate about speech and debate. For the last three of my high school years, I have competed and placed nationally at major tournaments in Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and Las Vegas, among many others. Debate demands an incredible amount of research, preparation […] The post STUDENT VOICE: Learning to debate is an important facet of education,...
Published on: September 30, 2025 | Source:How the Supreme Court Is Remolding Education in 2025
It isn’t just the executive branch changing education for American K-12 students. The Supreme Court has leapt in.
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:Education Department takes a preliminary step toward revamping its research and statistics arm
In his first two months in office, President Donald Trump ordered the closing of the Education Department and fired half of its staff. The department’s research and statistics division, called the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), was particularly hard hit. About 90 percent of its staff lost their jobs and more than 100 federal contracts […] The post Education Department takes a preliminary step toward revamping...
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:OPINION: We need more ‘math people’ in our country. Let’s boost learning beyond the traditional school day
As a teacher, I heard it all the time: “I’m not a math person.” I would be in line at the grocery store, wearing a math T-shirt one of my students got for me, and I’d hear it: “Algebra? Who needs it?” I would ask the person if they’d shopped with a coupon, bought a […] The post OPINION: We need more ‘math people’ in our country. Let’s boost learning beyond the traditional school day appeared first on The Hechinger...
Published on: September 29, 2025 | Source:Congress exempted beauty schools from rules about how much graduates should earn
Remiah Ward’s shift at the SmartStyle salon inside Walmart was almost over, and she’d barely made $30 in tips from the haircuts she’d done that day. It wasn’t unusual — a year after her graduation from beauty school, tips plus minimum wage weren’t enough to cover her rent. She scarcely had time to eat […] The post Congress exempted beauty schools from rules about how much graduates should earn appeared first on The...
Published on: September 26, 2025 | Source:So you went to trade school. Do you out-earn high school grads in your state?
Schools that train hairstylists, dental assistants and health aides will be able to keep getting federal student loan dollars even if the professionals they turn out don’t end up earning any more than a high school graduate. That’s because programs like those, which don’t end in a college degree, were granted an exemption from new […] The post So you went to trade school. Do you out-earn high school grads in your...
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