

Education Jan 26

Isolated from peers and forced into remote learning, students experience loss, educational setbacks – and some unexpected academic progress.
By Caroline Preston, The Hechinger Report
Education Jan 19

Fall enrollment at community colleges was down 10 percent from a year earlier, according to National Student Clearinghouse data.
By Lawrence Lanahan, The Hechinger Report
Education Dec 29

The pandemic has accelerated innovation in an industry that’s usually slow to change.
By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
Education Nov 30

Zoom lectures haven’t been as bad as she thought they would be, though the upstairs neighbor’s vacuuming is distracting when she’s trying to pay attention.
By Charlotte West, The Hechinger Report
Nov 25

By Meredith Kolodner and Bracey Harris, Neal Morton, The Hechinger Report
The rampant spread of the coronavirus has exposed a crisis of crumbling and dilapidated school buildings brought on by decades of underfunding and neglect.
Aug 27

By Aaricka Washington, The Hechinger Report
Education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history and antiracism. With young kids, the challenge is finding ways to tackle those topics in substantive yet age-appropriate ways.
Aug 21

By Charlotte West, The Hechinger Report
Mental health support, better remote instruction and a focus on vulnerable students -- high schoolers are pressing legislatures and school boards to make their appeals heard.
Jul 31

By Charlotte West, The Hechinger Report
With their summer jobs and internships canceled and anxiety about getting Covid-19 — or just succumbing to boredom — college students have found one type of work that they largely can do at home this summer: mentoring younger students to…
Jul 27

By Benjamin Herold, The Hechinger Report
Local high school students convinced Pennsylvania’s Historical and Museum Commission to commemorate Philadelphia’s 1967 Black student walkouts. Soon afterward, city officials removed a statue honoring the former police commissioner who ordered the young protesters beaten.
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