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More tools. The Offer Letter Decoder helps college applicants understand the financial aid offer letter they receive from a college or university. The Hechinger Report created the College Closure Tracker to document the more than 800 colleges and universities that have closed since 2008. The Hechinger Report covers education from birth through ...
Election 2024 - The Hechinger Report
From Head Start to student loans, conservative proposals for a new Trump administration have wide reach. The Hechinger Report delved into where the presidential candidates stand on early education through higher education and beyond.
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A decade of research on education inequality in America
Jun 29, 2020 · An analysis of achievement gaps in every school in America shows that poverty is the biggest hurdle. Rich schools get richer: School spending analysis finds widening gap between top 1% and the rest of us. This story about education inequality in America written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news ...
Some colleges have an answer for students questioning the value …
1 day ago · Tamari Natelauri says she chose Drexel University because of its reputation for getting students relevant work experience. Credit: Caroline Gutman for The Hechinger Report At Drexel, about 94 percent of students take at least one six-month break from classes to get a job – most are paid jobs – in their prospective career field, …
Opinion - The Hechinger Report
Oct 29, 2024 · In our opinion section, educators, experts, and students themselves discuss how to approach — and solve — the biggest problems in education. Want to write your own op-ed for Hechinger? OPINION: Trump is back. We’re still waiting on his plan for schools. OK. I guess we’re doing this (again). It feels awful for lots of reasons, of course ...
Reading Matters - The Hechinger Report
There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. In this new American Public Media podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work.
Climate change: Are we ready? - The Hechinger Report
May 23, 2020 · This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. We report on how climate change emergencies are disrupting student learning, exacerbating mental health problems, devastating school infrastructure, and how the coronavirus pandemic is a preview of what education looks like in a climate emergency. We also look at how textbooks are coming up short in teaching kids about ...
Higher Education Archives - The Hechinger Report
Oct 28, 2024 · Higher Education. Even as policymakers push to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees, university and college students and their families contend with ever-rising costs and debt, low success rates, and growing concern about equal access to a higher education. We cover the causes of these problems, and the innovations being tried to ...
How colleges can become ‘living labs’ for combating climate change
Jul 30, 2024 · The State University of New York at New Paltz is among a growing number of higher education institutions where professors are using the “campus as a living lab” to teach students to reduce carbon emissions. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic ...