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Spiraling rents are wreaking havoc on college students seeking housing for the fall

Spiraling rents are wreaking havoc on college students seeking housing for the fall

Big hikes are forcing students deeper into debt, risk pushing more out of school altogether

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Post-Roe landscape could further stress America’s crumbling child care system

Post-Roe landscape could further stress America’s crumbling child care system

Dallas parents flocking to schools that pull students from both rich and poor parts of town

Dallas parents flocking to schools that pull students from both rich and poor parts of town

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If more students become pregnant post-Roe, are we prepared to support them?

Schools often discriminate against parenting students, and services for them have dwindled. New abortion restrictions could force more young people to drop out

LaTavia BigBack with her young son. She dropped out of school at 17 but returned and received her diploma at 21, highly motivated by her children. “Because it’s not about me anymore. It’s really about them and their future,” she said. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report

Soon after she received her high school diploma in the spring, LaTavia BigBack met with her career and college coordinator at Hope House Colorado and has begun filling out college applications. She was just accepted to the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report

LaTavia BigBack, 21, with her daughter. She was a high school junior when she learned she was pregnant, and didn’t receive the support she needed from school officials to continue. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report

LaTavia BigBack preparing a bottle for her new baby boy Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report

LaTavia BigBack, 21, a former teen parent outside Hope House Colorado. She took parenting classes there when she had her first child and moved into its residential facility when she was pregnant with her second. Credit: Jimena Peck for The Hechinger Report

An evolving role for colleges: Training people recovering from substance abuse disorders to be part of treatment teams

OPINION: Why the narrative that critical race theory ‘makes white kids feel guilty’ is a lie

PROOF POINTS: Early data on ‘high-dosage’ tutoring shows schools are sometimes finding it tough to deliver even low doses

Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

TEACHER VOICE: With hands-on activities, my chemistry students are building cities of the future

PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

Climate change vs schools

The COP26 summit has been called the ‘last, best hope’ to limit global warming. Here’s how the crisis is already affecting America’s schoolchildren

Climate change is sabotaging education for America’s students – and it’s only going to get worse

Are we ready? How we are teaching – and not teaching – kids about climate change

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Child care in shambles

The coronavirus pandemic has strained the already fragile child care industry. Without government support, it’s likely to topple.

After mass closures, too little support, post-pandemic child care options will be scarce

The racist and sexist roots of child care in America explain why the system is in shambles

It’s ‘unconscionable’: We depend on child care workers to provide high-quality care to our children. But many of those workers can’t afford food and rent

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EARLY CHILDHOOD

Active child care workers lead to active toddlers

Active child care workers lead to active toddlers

Cracking down on unsafe infant sleep products

Easing the stress of poverty can bring down rates of child abuse and neglect

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Elementary to High School

A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

PROOF POINTS: Computer scientists create tool that can desegregate schools – and shorten bus routes

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Higher education

OPINION: Why competition isn’t always the answer to high college costs

OPINION: Why competition isn’t always the answer to high college costs

Congress is starting to tackle student mental health

The new labor market: No bachelor’s required?

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A PANDEMIC YEAR IN REVIEW

Over the course of ten months, teachers, parents, students and administrators from across the country told us what it was like to be in school this year and how they coped with the ongoing crisis.

‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

November 29, 2021June 23, 2022

‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

June 15, 2022July 20, 2022

VOICES: Students, teachers, principals and experts weigh in

OPINION: After two decades of studying voucher programs, I’m now firmly opposed to them

OPINION: Let’s start thinking about climate change as a modern educational problem — and solve it

OPINION: We need reading instruction that starts later and continues far, far longer

OPINION: We need reading instruction that starts later and continues far, far longer

OPINION: Why it’s time to discard old stereotypes about Asian American parents and education

OPINION: Why ‘test-optional’ admissions are not a game-changer for equity after all

OPINION: Schools must do a better job teaching anti-racism

OPINION: Schools must do a better job teaching anti-racism

OPINION: Students are coming to college less prepared during the pandemic. They need our help

STUDENT VOICE: Here’s how to make history come alive: Watch movies in class

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