OPINION: Arts education must move beyond traditional models and embrace practical skills and hands-on learning

Posted 2025-04-29 05:32:00 by: Melinda King

Arts graduates, both undergraduate and postgraduate, are highly educated yet often unprepared for careers beyond academia. Traditional arts education frequently leaves them struggling to enter commercial sectors like galleries, auction houses and publishing. Art history students in particular face growing difficulty in securing employment outside academic circles. In the U.S., art and art history education […] The post OPINION: Arts education must move beyond traditional models and embrace practical skills and hands-on learning appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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As ‘bot’ students continue to flood in, community colleges struggle to respond

Posted 2025-04-29 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

This story was first published by Voice of San Diego and is reprinted with permission. Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern College faculty feel their leaders haven’t done enough to curb the crisis. When the […] The post As ‘bot’ students continue to flood in, community colleges struggle to respond appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Education Department restarts online library ERIC

Posted 2025-04-28 18:53:23 by: Melinda King

The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday that it would continue to operate its online library, known as ERIC, after allowing it to lapse last week. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had sought significant cuts to the document repository that is used by 14 million people a year, and allowed funding to run out […] The post Education Department restarts online library ERIC appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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When kids are evicted, they often lose both home and school

Posted 2025-04-28 17:23:08 by: Melinda King

This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. HOUSTON — Since her birth 10 years ago, Mackenzie Holmes has rarely called one place home for long. There was the house in Houston custom-built and owned by her grandmother, Crystal Holmes. Then, after Holmes lost her Southwest Airlines job and the house, […] The post When kids are evicted, they often lose both home and school appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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These districts are bucking the national math slump

Posted 2025-04-28 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

DRESDEN, Tenn. — In early February, seventh grade math teacher Jamie Gallimore tried something new: She watched herself teach class. The idea had come from Ed Baker, district math coach at Tennessee’s Weakley County Schools. Baker set up an iPad on a cabinet in Gallimore’s classroom at Martin Middle School and hit record.  Gallimore watched […] The post These districts are bucking the national math slump appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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These school districts are bucking the national math slump

Posted 2025-04-28 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

DRESDEN, Tenn. — In early February, seventh grade math teacher Jamie Gallimore tried something new: She watched herself teach class. The idea had come from Ed Baker, district math coach at Tennessee’s Weakley County Schools. Baker set up an iPad on a cabinet in Gallimore’s classroom at Martin Middle School and hit record.  Gallimore watched […] The post These school districts are bucking the national math slump appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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Colleges partnered with an EV battery factory to train students and ignite the economy. Trump’s clean energy war complicates their plans

Posted 2025-04-28 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — In a classroom at Kansas City Kansas Community College, 20 students were learning how basic circuit boards work. They fiddled with knobs, switches, levers and wires; if they got the connections right, tiny light bulbs glowed. The students — recruited for the opportunity by Panasonic — were participants in an eight-week apprenticeship […] The post Colleges partnered with an EV battery factory to train students and ignite the economy. Trump’s clean energy war complicates their plans appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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A smaller Nation’s Report Card

Posted 2025-04-24 16:26:53 by: Melinda King

As Education Secretary Linda McMahon was busy dismantling her cabinet department, she vowed to preserve one thing: the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card. In early April, she told a gathering of ed tech companies and investors that the national exam was “something we absolutely need to keep,” […] The post A smaller Nation’s Report Card appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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A lot of hope was pinned on after-school programs — now they’re shutting their doors

Posted 2025-04-24 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

CLEVELAND — In a public school cafeteria here, 6- and 7-year olds were taking turns sketching their ideas for a building made of toothpicks and gummy bears. Their task: to design a structure strong enough to support a single subject notebook. It was a challenge meant to test their abilities to plan ahead, work as […] The post A lot of hope was pinned on after-school programs — now they’re shutting their doors appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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College Uncovered: The Missing Men

Posted 2025-04-24 05:00:00 by: Melinda King

Something has been happening on college campuses that’s as surprising as it is dramatic: The number of women enrolled has overtaken the number of men. Women now outnumber men by about 60 percent to 40 percent, and that gaps keep getting wider. And men who do enroll are also more likely to drop out. There […] The post College Uncovered: The Missing Men appeared first on The Hechinger ...

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