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

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-20 18:00:00

Taking on racial bias in early math lessons

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-20 18:04:00

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-18 10:00:00

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-22 05:00:00

Posted 2025-08-21 13:00:00

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

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 ...

Posted 2025-08-21 05:00:00