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 ...

It was almost impossible for the average observer to keep track of the Trump administration’s biggest impacts on education in ...

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

Last year, Project 2025 was a conservative wish list. Months later, many of those wishes have become reality, including the ...

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. This year, a lot ...

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 ...

About 1.5 million people teach on college campuses in the United States, and nearly 4 million teachers work in its public elementary and secondary schools. More than 15 million undergraduates attend U ...

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 ...

MACCLESFIELD, England — Ishan Goshawk, an apprentice with global pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, donned a lab coat and safety glasses and entered a room filled with robots. This story also ...

Student-athletes across the U.S. are now participating in National Signing Day, when some top high school recruits will officially commit to play for an institution in exchange for six- or ...

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.