Higher Education
To pay for college, more students are promising a piece of their future to investors
As the Department of Education announces an experiment with income share agreements, the debate about these financial tools is growing louder
Future of Learning
Challenging the tried-and-true, to serve a younger generation of students
A sampling of Hechinger reporting for The New York Times’s Learning section
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Divided We Learn
From prison to dean’s list
Just 4 percent of formerly incarcerated people have a bachelor’s degree. Now, a movement to raise that number is gaining momentum as Congress reconsiders a ban on Pell grants for prisoners, and some states seek to prevent universities from barring felonsRead more
Divided We Learn
How one Minnesota university more than doubled its native student graduation rate
Native students have the lowest college graduation rates in the nation, but American Indian and Alaska Native students at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities have made impressive gains
Mississippi
‘We’re stronger than we’ve ever been’: A Mississippi district shows that integrated schools pay off
A concerted effort to educate all children together in same schools has helped keep the Pearl School District racially and economically diverse
K-12
Schools struggle to help students return to class after a mental health crisis
More kids are missing school because of anxiety and depression. A Massachusetts program is trying to disrupt that cycle
Early Education
When the bus is the schoolhouse
In a remote region of Appalachia, a preschool on wheels offers a vehicle to improved life outcomes for young children and their families.
Immigration
Diverse future of the Midwest has already arrived in one Iowa school district
Sioux City, Iowa, is an oasis of diversity in the state that votes first in presidential primaries; school leaders here set politics aside to serve immigrant students
Higher Education
Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates
Civic, business leaders are alternately helping and compelling the pros to up their game