I remember when states were making it easier to do well on their math and English tests and scores skyrocketing. Then NAEP scores came out and showed that kids weren't actually learning more. So what happens if we lose that accountability? hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

"the Court is left with little confidence that the defense can be trusted to tell the truth about anything." Strong language from the judge overseeing the lawsuit trying to prevent the Trump administration, which is "the defense," from dismantling of the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau).

Prospective college students may think that a college degree from a state’s flagship public institution yields a significantly higher payoff than other public universities in that state. Our newly updated ROI data tool reveals that is not always the case. Read more: bit.ly/4hRaEUT #AcademicSky

This may seem in the weeds, but in light of attempted deportations of legal residents, asking for the nationalities of protesters is a big shift. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

"President Donald Trump promises he’ll make American schools great again. He has fired nearly everyone who might objectively measure whether he succeeds." @jillbarshay.bsky.social 's latest hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

The Education Dept's latest effort to end race-conscious policies includes an investigation into scholarships at the University of Alabama -- but they cancelled theirs last year. I'm curious how universities will respond to this -- and I'm on Signal at merkolodner.04 if anyone wants to chat there.

Students who owe money because they were misled by for-profit colleges were on the brink of getting relief -- when Trump fired the people put in charge of helping them. hechingerreport.org/student-loan...

Useful round-up here of all of the cuts to DEI programs and race-conscious academic centers at colleges and universities www.highereddive.com/news/roundup...

Remarkable statement of intent: “We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/vide...

This program is supposed to help students with disabilities get into the workforce, which you would think would be a bi-partisan goal. But we found that's it's serving a tiny fraction of eligible young people -- and parents told me it's like a "secret society." hechingerreport.org/hundreds-of-...

Big ideological changes coming to Florida's universities, likely other states as well: Florida State University has removed hundreds of classes from their general education curriculum, like Black Women in America, while three classes on Bible Studies remain. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

The Trump administration has vowed to get rid of all race-conscious education programs, but California is hoping to get more resources to its colleges that excel at serving Black students edsource.org/updates/cali...

Not your imagination: fewer food vendor carts are on the streets because vendors are staying home to avoid receiving NYPD tickets that could get them deported. @haidee.bsky.social reports from a very full Manhattan garage.

Super clear breakdown of the NAEP results here, with a focus on the inequity: “The rich get richer and the poor are getting shafted,” said a NAEP board member. “It’s almost criminal.” hechingerreport.org/naep-test-20...

I’m not sure if I were to be thrown in jail based on a “you ain’t from around here” vibe warrant, that I could speedily find and furnish my birth certificate

Federal investigation into a Denver public school for having a boys-only bathroom but no girls-only bathroom on its second floor. The first of many, I imagine... ocrcas.ed.gov/sites/defaul...

New data shows college enrollment is up and increased the most at for-profit colleges, driven by a spike in Black and Hispanic students (13 percent). For-profit enrollment was flat for white students. nscresearchcenter.org/current-term...

Well this is kind of big news -- freshmen enrollment didn't actually drop this fall. Final numbers will be out next week... www.highereddive.com/news/nationa...

New data shows terrible graduation rates for some online programs. Fierce competition for students "can mean more spending on marketing and recruitment than on instruction and support." www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

I'm concerned about confusing fact-checking and free speech. Both can exist simultaneously, and I am grateful to all the fact-checkers I have worked with who have caught my errors. In fact, one could argue that fact-checking is an essential component of free speech. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...

Such an important issue covered here: “When we think about students with disabilities, I want you to think about them as all of our students." www.kosu.org/show/stateim... #edusky

Harvard Law School enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

It will be interesting to see if anyone in the incoming Trump administration comments on this, given Teamsters president Sean O'Brien's approach to the election www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/b...

California's financial aid application doesn't go to the federal government, easing fears of students with undocumented parents that applying for aid could result in their parents' deportation, via @mzinshteyn.bsky.social calmatters.org/education/hi...

Incredibly well-told story of the maddening experience of trying to get child care in the U.S. by @jackiemader.bsky.social hechingerreport.org/parents-are-...

At the risk of stating the painfully obvious...this could have very far reaching consequences www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Should students who have undocumented immigrant parents fill out the FAFSA? What a huge weight on these teenagers' shoulders...story by @arielgilreath.bsky.social hechingerreport.org/trump-deport...

Child care inspection reports, from four states that are considering or have passed deregulation legislation, show that child care teachers were struggling even before deregulation efforts began. @jackiemader.bsky.social hechingerreport.org/investigatin...

“We also heard that if you’re already married, it’s less likely they can take that away from you.”

I wonder if this gives some insight into the high teacher turnover rates in areas where the cost of housing, child care and health care is very high.

I took Calculus in high school, because that's what college-bound kids did. I have used it zero times since high school, because I'm a newspaperman and not a civil engineer. Great story by @jillbarshay.bsky.social. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Colleges have to publish their drop-out and acceptance rates. Why don't insurance companies have to publish their denial rates? "No one knows how often private insurers like UnitedHealthcare deny claims because they are generally not required to publish that data." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/n...

Good plan

The Ed Dept may require schools to report "informal removals," which could shine a light on a practice that currently flies under the radar, and affects tens of thousands of kids www.disabilityscoop.com/2024/12/03/e...

For the past year, @jackiemader.bsky.social tracked a quiet wave of child care deregulation efforts across the U.S. The potential consequences for underpaid, overworked early educators, and America's children could be stark. Read it, in @hechingerreport.org: hechingerreport.org/the-dark-fut...

This is an interesting way to handle the banning of affirmative action. In a purely legal sense, the priority is not explicitly race-based. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Lovely story about how schools and their staffs became the center of community recovery efforts in McDowell County after Hurricane Helene by @arielgilreath.bsky.social hechingerreport.org/school-buses...

One reason some people don't feel like the economy is good: Almost 2 million New York state residents said they “often” or “sometimes” didn’t have enough to eat in surveys conducted between August and September of this year, a 76% increase from the same period in 2021. tinyurl.com/yc5kpv4r

“We are asking rural folks to accept a set of options that folks in cities and suburbs would never accept...“It’s almost like, well, ‘This is what you get to learn, and this is how you get to learn it. And if you don’t like it, you can move.’ ” hechingerreport.org/easy-to-just...

We tried to answer the questions we were hearing the most about the future of education under Trump. Please let us know what we missed, where you disagree and/or agree! hechingerreport.org/what-might-h...

Really interesting new graphic showing the counties where Trump and Harris each lost and gained voters. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What Percentage of a State's Primary and Secondary Education Revenue Comes from the US Department of Education? Great data viz from James Murphy www.datawrapper.de/_/skaST/

Dual Enrollment in California www.ppic.org/publication/...

Trump's nominee to lead the Dept. of Education supports using Pell grants for short-term training programs. thehill.com/opinion/cong... But a new report casts doubt on the value of those programs...

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Perhaps not surprising, but still striking -- and part of the college divide in this country. www.chronicle.com/article/repr...

Maybe not surprising but still disturbing: New study shows students from families in the top 1 percent by income are 13 times more likely to score above 1300 on the SAT than families in the bottom 20 percent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hi everyone! I'm new to Bluesky. I'm an investigative reporter at The Hechinger Report, and I cover eduction. I'm here to learn more about the issues affecting students, parents and educators. Here's a piece I read this morning that I thought was interesting. www.wgbh.org/news/educati...