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

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-29 05:32:00

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On his first day in office, President Donald Trump rescinded key protections limiting immigration enforcement in schools and other sensitive locations, a move that overturned long-held policy and ...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

Education Department restarts online library ERIC

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-28 18:53:23

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-28 17:23:08

These school districts are bucking the national math slump

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-28 05:00:00

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-28 05:00:00

These districts are bucking the national math slump

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 ...

Posted 2025-04-28 05:00:00

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