A gender gap in STEM widened during the pandemic. Schools are trying to make up lost ground

IRVING, Texas — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple card in front of a light sensor, ...

Posted 2025-09-05 05:00:00

Landmark free preschool program reaches too few kids

In the 1980s, a public interest law group sued the state of New Jersey, saying that the way it funded education left its low-income, urban school districts at a disadvantage compared to ...

Posted 2025-09-04 05:00:00

Colleges struggle to make manufacturing training hot again 

ELYRIA, Ohio — Nolan Norman had no idea what microelectronic manufacturing entailed when his adviser at Midview High suggested he take the school’s new class on it last year.  Yet once he ...

Posted 2025-08-27 05:00:00

State preschool program helps kids catch up — but many are missing out 

This story about Abbott districts was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger ...

Posted 2025-09-02 05:00:00

Students can’t get into basic college courses, dragging out their time in school

Ryan Arnoldy started community college with the goal of eventually transferring to a four-year university and getting a degree in chemical engineering. Soon Arnoldy started running up against the ...

Posted 2025-09-02 05:00:00

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-26 05:00:00

OPINION: My students fulfill the promise of higher education every day, but their future is in jeopardy 

As a college president, I see the promise of higher education fulfilled every day. Many students at my institution, Whittier College, are the first in their families to attend a university. Some ...

Posted 2025-09-01 05:00:00

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-25 05:00:00

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-25 05:00:00

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-25 10:00:00