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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OPINION: Students will move forward post-pandemic if we give them new pathways and opportunities

OPINION: With college enrollment tumbling, new strategies are urgently needed

OPINION: Why education’s culture wars are only about some parents’ rights

Divided We Learn

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OPINION: Here’s a solution for attracting more Black, Latino and Indigenous talent to STEM — Start early

OPINION: The pandemic will leave the next generation of Black tech talent behind

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

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

Translating a quarter of a million text messages for families

The South

Latest stories

Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve

OPINION: Too many Black and Latino students are ‘academically alone’ in advanced classes

Early Childhood

Elementary to High School

Higher Education

Future of Learning

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OPINION: What might the future of universal pre-K look like? As researchers, we have some concerns

Gifted Education’s Race Problem

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PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education

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

Opening the doors to elite public schools

Coronavirus and Education

Latest stories

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

PROOF POINTS: Uncertain evidence for online tutoring

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

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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

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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

PROOF POINTS: Lessons from college dropouts who came back

Decoding the price of college: Complexity of figuring out costs holds students back

The future of work starts early in this California school district — just ask a fifth grader

Mississippi

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OPINION: How targeted federal action could finally chip away at the broadband racism faced by Black students

States’ urgent push to overhaul reading instruction

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

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OPINION: It may be time to rethink the emphasis on taking calculus in high school

OPINION: There’s an effective way to guide our students through mental health problems

OPINION: A call to service: Our schools need you to step up

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

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

Los nuevos educadores en casa: Más diversos, muy entregados

Como se hace bien el aprendizaje virtual? Un distrito en California ofrece algunas respuestas

COLUMNISTS

Jill Barshay

Andre Perry

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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