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We explain what’s working, what’s not and what matters in education. Our stories are deeply researched, carefully written and rigorously edited. Our mission isn’t only to expose problems. We want to find out what’s being done to fix them and whether those solutions are working and can be replicated.

Students in Mount View High School teacher Amber Shirley’s math class work on an assignment.
Posted inElementary to High School

Can putting the least-experienced teachers in the highest-risk schools ever result in success?

by Peggy Barmore December 25, 2017March 30, 2020
A vacant lot is all there is of a proposed multi-unit apartment complex for teachers and other professionals behind the Marquee Cinemas in Welch as Reconnecting McDowell works to renegotiate funds held up by the Trump administration.
Posted inNews

At ground zero for the opioid epidemic, schools are helping students overcome the odds

by Peggy Barmore December 24, 2017March 30, 2020
Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers.
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News, Solutions

Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 18, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

How a struggling school for Native Americans doubled its graduation rate

Avatar photo by Emrys Eller and Alden Nusser November 28, 2017March 30, 2020
Benito Juarez Community Academy serves 1,800 students in Chicago’s lower West Side neighborhood.
Posted inElementary to High School

A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

Amadou Diallo is a journalist, playwright and photographer whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wirecutter, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America and The Christian Science Monitor. He has been a regular contributor to The Hechinger Report since 2017. A former musician and composer, he is a graduate of New York University and is always happy to weigh in on just which of Miles Davis’ classic quintets was the best. by Amadou Diallo November 21, 2017March 30, 2020
A special education student at South Hills High School takes an online quiz about RNA. The district’s reforms to special education have included making sure students use the same textbooks as their general education peers.
Posted inElementary to High School

How one district solved its special education dropout problem

Avatar photo by Sarah Butrymowicz November 18, 2017March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

A little girl’s school helps her deal with trauma at home

by Sukjong Hong October 31, 2017October 21, 2020
In this 2013 photo, Shannan Van Houten, a physician assistant, gives medical care to a patient at Golden Valley Health Center, CareNow, in Modesto, California. Physician assistant is a fast-growing and well-paid profession that is expected to add an estimated 39,700 jobs over the next decade.
Posted inElementary to High School, Higher Education, Map to the Middle Class, News, Solutions

Without changes in education, the future of work will leave more people behind

Avatar photo by Sarah Gonser October 31, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

Making ‘Big Data’ useful rather than scary for teachers

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson October 27, 2017March 30, 2020
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions

The threat of Big Brother undermines a push to gather data about college student performance

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 24, 2017April 8, 2021

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