The Hechinger Report7h
Most college students are taking online classes, but they’re paying just as much as in-person students
Most Americans think online courses should be cheaper than in-person college classes, but most online programs cost the same ...
The Hechinger Report1d
Chaos and confusion as the statistics arm of the Education Department is reduced to a skeletal staff of 3
This week’s mass layoffs by his secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, of more than 1,300 Department of Education employees delivered a crippling blow to the agency’s ability to tell the public how ...
The Hechinger Report10d
Student loan borrowers misled by colleges were about to get relief. Trump fired people poised to help
Federal layoffs that included workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau short-circuited work to help student loan ...
The Hechinger Report5d
10 lives, 5 years later: How the pandemic altered the futures of these parents, kids and educators
Some educators, parents and students say Covid stunted their education and careers, while others were derailed temporarily but found new careers or a sense of purpose.
The Hechinger Report5d
Five years later, lots of kids are still behind at school — and life. How about yours?
Roughly five years have passed since schools shut down and turned to remote learning in the United States — but the pandemic’s toll on education lingers. Students are still behind where they would ...
The Hechinger Report4d
Coal plants are closing. For some schools, that means lost revenue and fewer jobs for graduates
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The Hechinger Report12d
Former Trump commissioner blasts DOGE education data cuts
DOGE staffers have not publicly disclosed how they decided which data to cut and which to preserve. Indeed, neither DOGE nor the Education Department has yet to disclose or confirm a list of the cuts.
The Hechinger Report3d
Shawn Healy
Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes and honor to what has become the world’s longest-standing experiment in ...
The Hechinger Report3d
Schools are surveilling kids to prevent gun violence or suicide. The lack of privacy comes at a cost
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The Hechinger Report9d
How early ed is affected by federal cuts
Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of ...
The Hechinger Report9d
Investigating the Bureau of Indian Education — and Trump’s efforts to turn it into a school choice program
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