STUDENT VOICE: Colleges and universities must do far more to support transfer students

Posted 2024-10-22 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

When I left home at 17, I knew I wanted to go to college. I knew earning a degree would help me find a path to a more secure future. And I knew that I was interested in pursuing a career focused on social justice. I also had no idea how I could afford college […] The post STUDENT VOICE: Colleges and universities must do far more to support transfer students appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Tribal college campuses are falling apart. The U.S. hasn’t fulfilled its promise to fund the schools.

Posted 2024-10-21 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. In the 1970s, Congress committed to funding a higher education system controlled by Indigenous communities. These tribal colleges and universities were intended to serve students who’d been disadvantaged by the nation’s history […] The post Tribal college campuses are falling apart. The U.S. hasn’t fulfilled its promise to fund the schools. appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: Why we need a joint and urgent effort to teach data science and literacy in the U.S.

Posted 2024-10-21 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Data is now everywhere in our lives, informing our decisions about which new show to watch, what path to take or whether to grab an umbrella. But it’s practically absent from the way our kids learn. Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in […] The post OPINION: Why we need a joint and urgent effort to teach data science and literacy in the U.S. appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Tracking college closures

Posted 2024-10-21 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

College enrollment has been declining for more than a decade, and that means that many institutions are struggling to pay their bills. A growing number of them are making the difficult decision to close. In the first nine months of 2024, 28 degree-granting institutions closed, compared with 15 in all of 2023, according to an […] The post Tracking college closures appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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More schools than ever are serving vegan meals in California. Here’s how they did it

Posted 2024-10-18 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

This story was produced by Grist and reprinted with permission. Three years ago, Erin Primer had an idea for a new summer program for her school district: She wanted students to learn about where their food comes from. Primer, who has worked in student nutrition within California’s public school system for 10 years, applied for […] The post More schools than ever are serving vegan meals in California. Here’s how they did it appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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In Norway, a kid can still be a kid

Posted 2024-10-17 14:52:56 by: Melinda King

Imagine sending your 4-year-old to preschool knowing they will spend nearly all day happily traipsing through the woods, climbing trees and resting in hammocks. Imagine that they also take part in what most of us would view as risky activities for a preschooler, like building fires and using knives to whittle figures out of sticks. […] The post In Norway, a kid can still be a kid appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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College Uncovered: The Politics of the College Presidency

Posted 2024-10-17 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Presidents of colleges and universities serve for less than six years on average. For women and people of color, that tenure is even shorter – a full year shorter. So what’s going on? College presidents are under fire for what they say about issues such as systemic racism, abortion access and war in the Middle East, and what they do — or don’t do […] The post College Uncovered: The Politics of the College Presidency appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average

Posted 2024-10-17 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

MONTCLAIR, N.J. — As a high-school senior in New Jersey, Ernesto Reyes Velasco couldn’t envision himself taking the leap to become an independent college student. Neither of his parents, who are immigrants from Mexico, had gone to college. He didn’t have close friends as examples. Money was tight. But this past summer Reyes Velasco spent […] The post How four universities graduate their low-income students at much higher rates than average appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: We can and must start early and teach students to become active citizens

Posted 2024-10-16 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

When my 8-year-old started asking questions about the world, it hit me that there wasn’t a lot out there to guide parents in teaching their kids about being active, engaged citizens. Manifestations of this gap are even more glaring in my college classroom, where many of my students do not know how to vote, haven’t […] The post OPINION: We can and must start early and teach students to become active citizens appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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OPINION: Rethinking civics education starts with inviting teens to co-create

Posted 2024-10-16 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

What do you think of when you hear the word “civics”? For most adults, civics likely conjures distant memories of a high school course in which they memorized the three branches of government and other constitutional trivia. Unfortunately, that experience of civics hasn’t changed much. What has been missing from civics education for decades is […] The post OPINION: Rethinking civics education starts with inviting teens to co-create appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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