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 ...

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 ...

Around 1,000 people from different countries attended a conference hosted by the National Association for Family Child Care, to discuss how home-based early learning programs face similar challenges ...

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 ...