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The Hechinger Report

Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: Higher Education

Even as policymakers push to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees, university and college students and their families contend with ever-rising costs and debt, low success rates, and growing concern about equal access to a higher education. We cover the causes of these problems, and the innovations being tried to solve them.

Stumbling blocks remain for newly minted teachers, career-switchers

by Alexandra Moses May 12, 2010March 30, 2020

Ana Arroyo-Montano spent the first year in front of her class fearing she’d be fired.

After training in the Boston Teacher Residency program, the business major with five years’ experience in financial aid services wasn’t prepared for a room of kindergartners who didn’t speak English.

Why we need a K-16 education system

by Bill Maxwell May 11, 2010March 30, 2020

In their own words: Community college coaches talk about educating athletes

by No Byline April 30, 2010March 30, 2020

How Maryland universities were able to cut costs and keep tuitions down

by Jon Marcus April 11, 2010March 30, 2020

Community colleges: Higher education’s Bermuda triangle

by Camille Esch April 8, 2010March 30, 2020

AP and IB courses: Are they truly rigorous?

by Justin Snider April 7, 2010March 30, 2020

Recruiting and retaining math teachers

by Hechinger Report March 23, 2010March 30, 2020

Community colleges must share in higher education recovery

by Camille Esch and Christopher Cabaldon March 23, 2010March 30, 2020

What makes for a good math teacher?

by Elizabeth Redden March 21, 2010March 30, 2020

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