Since a White House executive order last January, 181 colleges have closed or renamed their DEI offices. But renaming the ...

It’s been five years since California and other states started blocking colleges from withholding students’ transcripts for unpaid bills, with the federal government adding restrictions. But some ...

Amid a year of upheaval, were some promising steps taken to elevate children’s issues and pay for programs that support the earliest years of life.

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It started with Harvard University. Then Notre Dame, Cornell, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Colleges are racing to close or rename their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...

Cherri McKinney rides the bus home from her office in Denver using an EcoPass, a free monthly RTD pass, provided to Colorado state employees. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report The ...

OAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five ...

This year, a lot of my reporting focused on the dismantling of federally funded education research and statistics inside the Department of Education. (If you want the full post-mortem, you can read my ...

This year, a lot of my reporting focused on the dismantling of federally funded education research and statistics inside the Department of Education. (If you want the full post-mortem, you can read my ...

In the nearly 13 years since I wrote my first early childhood story for The Hechinger Report, I have never experienced a year quite like 2025. From the gutting of federal early childhood offices to ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Thirty states now ...