English language learners

Wonderful College Prep Academy

Privilege for the poor: Farming giant gives back — to its workers’ children

The billionaires behind a health food conglomerate built a school to help the farmworkers they employ embrace kale and college

High School Reform

by Alfonso Serrano  – January 18, 2020

Wonderful College Prep Academy

Privilegio para los necesitados: Gigante de la industria agrícola retribuye a la sociedad brindando apoyo a los hijos de sus trabajadores

Los multimillonarios detrás de un conglomerado de comida saludable fundaron una escuela para ayudar a los trabajadores agrícolas de su empresa a celebrar la col rizada y la universidad

Hechinger en Español

by Alfonso Serrano  – January 18, 2020

School network takes turbocharged approach to education for refugee students

Fugees Academy, perhaps the nation’s only school to serve refugees exclusively, tries to pack three years of English into one

K-12

by Aaricka Washington  – December 23, 2019

High School Reform

Experts often urge educators to catch struggling students "before it's too late," but high schools are charged with educating all students, regardless of their past. The Hechinger Report is spending two years exploring high schools successful with diverse groups or trying innovative approaches.

U.S. education achievement slides backwards

Substantial decrease in reading scores among the nation's eighth graders

K-12

by  Jill Barshay  – October 30, 2019

Artificial intelligence

Will AI really transform education?

Promoters show off promising applications of the technology, but AI is not changing the world quite yet

Future of Learning

by  Caroline Preston  – September 26, 2019

thinking strategies

Beyond basic reading, kids can learn how to think like a good reader

Making these thinking strategies explicit has helped close achievement gaps between English learners and their peers

Future of Learning

by  Tara García Mathewson  – April 11, 2019

Niños inmigrantes aprendieron inglés en la mitad del tiempo cuando repitieron 3.° grado

Generalmente, las políticas de repetición obligatoria no resultan efectivas. Pero este importante estudio demuestra que aplicar la repetición de grado en estudiantes de tercer grado, quienes están aprendiendo inglés (y, como resultado, apoyarlos exhaustivamente), podría resultar efectiva

Hechinger en Español

by  Jill Barshay  – March 27, 2019

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New programs find ways to foster student resilience

A sampling of Hechinger reporting for The New York Times’s Learning section

Future of Learning

by  Hechinger Report  – February 23, 2019

Attorney Allegra Love has become a resource for teachers and administrators in Santa Fe and around the country whose school communities are coping with deportations and immigration policy threats. Her nonprofit Santa Fe Dreamers Project provides free legal help for undocumented immigrants.

How teachers are helping students affected by deportations

Immigration lawyers and education experts offer advice to teachers balancing legal requirements and moral obligations

Immigration Crisis

by  Lisa Button  – February 7, 2019

A student at a Kidango child care center in San Jose colors during play time.

Can mental health training for teachers reduce preschool suspensions?

California is trying to support young children by providing more mental health assistance to their teachers

Early Education

by  Jackie Mader  – January 26, 2019

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