OPINION: Young men are increasingly lonely, isolated and reading less

Young men in America today are feeling lonely and socially isolated. They are not going to college, entering the workplace or going on dates as often as young men did in prior generations. In my ...

Posted 2025-10-28 05:00:00

At Moms for Liberty summit, parents urged to turn their grievances into lawsuits

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — It’s not a rebrand. But the Moms for Liberty group that introduced itself three years ago as a band of female “joyful warriors” shedding domestic modesty to make raucous ...

Posted 2025-10-21 03:15:46

OPINION: A shuttered government was not the lesson I hoped my Texas students would learn on a trip to Washington, D.C. 

After decades serving in the Marine Corps and in education, I know firsthand that servant leadership and diplomacy can and should be taught. That’s why I hoped to bring 32 high school seniors ...

Posted 2025-10-21 05:00:00

Why one reading expert says ‘just-right’ books are all wrong

Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has spent his career evaluating education research and helping teachers figure out what works best in the ...

Posted 2025-10-27 10:00:00

More first-generation students in Texas are applying for college

DALLAS — Adrian Torres’ obsession with race cars began when he was 11 years old. He got hooked watching a YouTube video of someone playing a Formula One game and quickly grew fascinated with ...

Posted 2025-10-27 05:00:00

OPINION: Student-parents belong on college campuses. So do their children

Too many student-parents never make it to graduation, in no small part because their campuses don’t adequately help them fit college into their lives — or even just fit in. Yet over 3 million ...

Posted 2025-10-27 05:00:00

OPINION: We cannot let higher education become a gated community for the wealthy, but that’s exactly where it is headed

Washington lawmakers and the Trump administration passed a major legislative package this summer that will cut funding for programs that help students from low-income backgrounds — making it ...

Posted 2025-10-20 05:00:00

Cellphone bans can help kids learn — but Black students are suspended more as schools make the shift

Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But it’s not clear whether this policy — unpopular with ...

Posted 2025-10-20 10:00:00

Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change

This story first appeared in Hechinger’s climate and education newsletter. Sign up here.  In Illinois, the Chicago Teachers Union won a contract with the city’s schools to add solar ...

Posted 2025-10-26 05:00:00

Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education office

Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy ...

Posted 2025-10-17 17:41:54