Special Reports

Middle School

Latest stories

OPINION: Former middle school teacher says older students aren’t getting the reading help they need

Race and Equity

Latest stories

Why aren’t flagship universities enrolling more of their own states’ Black students?

PROOF POINTS: Black and white teachers from HBCUs are better math instructors, study finds

OPINION: Enrichment programs can only do so much to end systemic education injustices

Divided We Learn

Latest stories

OPINION: Our education system is not setting up students for success

Plunging NAEP scores make clear the long and difficult road ahead to pandemic recovery

OPINION: President Biden’s targeted student debt cancellation helps, but the next generation needs a path to a debt-free degree

Climate Change: Are we ready?

Latest stories

Climate change is a health crisis. Are doctors prepared?

The West

Latest stories

Tell us your story about the Bureau of Indian Education

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

The South

Latest stories

Missouri district brings back corporal punishment — at the urging of parents, it says

Early Childhood

Elementary to High School

Higher Education

Future of Learning

Latest stories

How Moms for Liberty wants to reshape education this school year and beyond

OPINION: It’s time to expand our thinking about what works in education reform

Canceled classes, sweltering classrooms: How extreme heat impairs learning

Gifted Education’s Race Problem

Latest stories

PROOF POINTS: How do you find a gifted child?

PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education

PROOF POINTS: Gifted programs provide little to no academic boost, new study says

Coronavirus and Education

Latest stories

PROOF POINTS: Six puzzling questions from the disastrous NAEP results

PROOF POINTS: Researchers say cries of teacher shortages are overblown

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

Guidance Gap

Latest stories

OPINION: The pandemic has dashed and deferred too many college dreams

Photo Essay: Leaving a reservation for college, but also staying close to home

STUDENT VOICE: Why rural students like me are ‘meant to be here’ in college

High School Reform

Latest stories

PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

A school year like no other: The class of 2021 played ‘the hand we were dealt’

Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

Immigration

Latest stories

Cuidado infantil, asientos para bebés y otras maneras simples de mantener a madres adolescentes en la escuela

Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

En busca de asilo en tiempos del Covid

Map to the Middle Class

Latest stories

OPINION: For many students who are also caregivers, Biden’s loan forgiveness plan is a much-needed lifeline

Rethinking community college supports for single moms

STUDENT VOICE: Higher education can — and should — help nontraditional students like me

Mississippi

Latest stories

Reporter’s notebook: Taking a deeper look at corporal punishment data

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddle students

New Orleans

Latest stories

COLUMN: School reopening plans must ensure safety of custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers and substitutes

COLUMN: Defund the private schools

The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

Solutions

Latest stories

OPINION: When debating student loan debt, keep college access in mind as the end goal

STUDENT VOICE: If you want students like me to succeed, there’s a policy decision that works: Doubling Pell Grants

Student Veterans

Latest stories

Getting educated while on active duty is getting harder as military rolls back benefits

OPINION: If you really want more equitable schools, you must first ask some questions

OPINION: How to keep our most vulnerable students from losing ground in the pandemic

Universities, Inc.

Latest stories

The unasked question about the student loan bailout: What’s colleges’ responsibility?

Many certificate programs don’t pay off, but colleges want to keep offering them anyway

With tenure under attack, professors join forces with a powerful teachers’ union

Hechinger en Español

Latest stories

Revocar a Roe creó nuevas barreras, no solo para el aborto, sino también para la capacitación en obstetricia y ginecología

Impacientes por trabajadores, las empresas ayudan a estudiantes a tomar atajos universitarios

Desde que la pandemia trastornó su educación secundaria, los estudiantes llegan al nivel universitario sin preparación

COLUMNISTS

Jill Barshay

Andre Perry

MORE SPECIAL REPORTS

A Promise to Renew

Arts Education

Building A Better Teacher

Common Core

Community College

Districts in Debt

First Step to the Middle Class

For-Profit Colleges

Graduate Students

Immigration Crisis

Lessons From Abroad

Learn and Earn

Math Achievement

Mississippi Child Care Crisis

School Improvement Grants

State of the Union

Student Voices

Teacher Effectiveness

Teacher Preparation

Terrible Twos

Time to Learn

Twice Abandoned

Willing, able and forgotten

The Worrying State of Science Education