Special Reports

Middle School

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OPINION: Career planning in middle school prepares students for better workforce choices

Middle school science teachers often have shaky scientific knowledge

Race and Equity

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

Divided We Learn

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

Climate Change: Are we ready?

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Climate change is a health crisis. Are doctors prepared?

The West

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OPINION: Why community colleges are the perfect partner for green jobs — and good jobs

OPINION: Earth Day is over, but there’s a lot more schools can do to address climate change

The South

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OPINION: Why Florida’s ban on textbooks is just another scare tactic

Early Childhood

Elementary to High School

Higher Education

Future of Learning

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New book advocates using pandemic lessons to reinvent education

OPINION: There are lots of bad ideas for solving the teacher shortage, but not enough for improving the profession

OPINION: Still skeptical about mastery-based learning? Here’s a better way of looking at what it is and does

Gifted Education’s Race Problem

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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

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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

PROOF POINTS: Pace of learning back to normal during the 2021-22 pandemic school year but student achievement lags far behind, data shows

Guidance Gap

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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’

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

Immigration

Latest stories

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

Seeking asylum in a time of Covid

En busca de asilo en tiempos del Covid

Map to the Middle Class

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

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

Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

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

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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

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

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

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

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

Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

Hechinger en Español

Latest stories

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

Cómo una ciudad resolvió la brecha digital para casi todos sus alumnos

En gran parte desapercibidos y sin asistencia, un gran número de papás que estudian están abandonando la universidad

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