Texas fue pionero en dar matrículas estatales para los inmigrantes indocumentados. Ahora está dando marcha atrás.

Posted 2025-08-26 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Read in English. SAN ANTONIO — Ximena tenía un plan.  La joven de 18 años de Houston iba a comenzar clases este otoño en la Universidad de Texas en Tyler, donde le habían concedido una beca de 10.000 dólares al año. Esperaba que eso le permitiera alcanzar su sueño: un doctorado en Química, seguido de […] The post Texas fue pionero en dar matrículas estatales para los inmigrantes indocumentados. Ahora está dando marcha atrás. appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Tutoring was supposed to save American kids after the pandemic. The results? ‘Sobering’

Posted 2025-08-25 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

Rigorous research rarely shows that any teaching approach produces large and consistent benefits for students. But tutoring seemed to be a rare exception. Before the pandemic, almost 100 studies pointed to impressive math or reading gains for students who were paired with a tutor at least three times a week and used a proven curriculum […] The post Tutoring was supposed to save American kids after the pandemic. The results? ‘Sobering’ appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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After Hechinger story, Illinois passes law requiring hospitals to connect parents of premature babies with life-changing therapies

Posted 2025-08-25 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Illinois hospital staff will soon be required by law to refer parents of severely premature infants to services that can help prevent years of intensive and expensive therapy later, when the children are older. The new law follows reporting from The Hechinger Report that exposed how hospitals often fail to connect many eligible parents to […] The post After Hechinger story, Illinois passes law requiring hospitals to connect parents of premature babies with life-changing therapies appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: The resumption of student loan payments means students will need new policies — and our help 

Posted 2025-08-25 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

After a three-year pause prompted by the pandemic, the clock on student loan repayments suddenly started ticking again in September 2023, and forbearance ended last September. For millions of borrowers like Shauntee Russell, the resumption of payments marked a harsh return to financial reality.   Russell, a single mother of three from Chicago, had received $127,000 […] The post OPINION: The resumption of student loan payments means students will need new policies — and our help  appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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These federal programs help low-income students get to and through college. Trump wants to pull the funding

Posted 2025-08-22 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

MOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she’d spend the months before her sophomore year taking classes in core subjects including math and biology and electives like oil painting.  For Griffith, it was an opportunity, but a […] The post These federal programs help low-income students get to and through college. Trump wants to pull the funding appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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What Trump’s education cuts mean for literacy

Posted 2025-08-21 13:00:00 by: Melinda King

This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn […] The post What Trump’s education cuts mean for literacy appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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What’s happened since Texas killed in-state tuition for undocumented students

Posted 2025-08-21 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

SAN ANTONIO — Ximena had a plan.  The 18-year-old from Houston was going to start college in the fall at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she had been awarded $10,000 a year in scholarships. That, she hoped, would set her up for her dream: a Ph.D. in chemistry, followed by a career as a […] The post What’s happened since Texas killed in-state tuition for undocumented students appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Taking on racial bias in early math lessons

Posted 2025-08-20 18:04:00 by: Melinda King

The early years are a critical time to teach the foundations of math. That’s when children learn to count, start identifying shapes and gain an early understanding of concepts like size and measurement. These years can also be a time when children are confronted with preconceived notions of their abilities in math, often based on […] The post Taking on racial bias in early math lessons appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent

Posted 2025-08-20 18:00:00 by: Melinda King

Paulina Cossette spent six years getting a doctoral degree with the goal of becoming a university professor. But it wasn’t long before she gave up on that path. With higher education under political assault, and opportunities as well as job security diminished by enrollment declines, Cossette felt burnt out and disillusioned. So she quit her […] The post A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data

Posted 2025-08-18 10:00:00 by: Melinda King

President Donald Trump wants to collect more admissions data from colleges and universities to make sure they’re complying with a 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended race-conscious affirmative action. And he wants that data now.  But data experts and higher education scholars warn that any new admissions data is likely to be inaccurate, impossible to […] The post Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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