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Early childhood educator apprenticeships offer an answer to child care shortages About six years ago, an apprentice training to be a machinist in Washington state told her supervisor she would probably have to drop out of the training program after having her baby: She couldn't find child careâŠ
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Early childhood educator apprenticeships offer an answer to child care shortages
About six years ago, an apprentice training to be a machinist in Washington state told her supervisor she would probably have to drop out of the training program after having her baby: She couldn't find child care that accommodated her shift. It was one of the first challenges Shana Peschek was tasked with solving when she became executive director of the Machinists Institute, which trains workers for jobs in the aerospace, manufacturing and automotive industries all over the state. Peschek knew it was essential to do something for workers with young children.
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Schools are closing across rural America. Hereâs how a battle over small districts is playing out in one state PEACHAM, Vt. â Early on a chilly fall morning in this small Vermont town, Principal Lydia Cochrane watched a gaggle of kids chase one another and a soccer ball around their school recessâŠ
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Schools are closing across rural America. Hereâs how a battle over small districts is playing out in one state
PEACHAM, Vt. â Early on a chilly fall morning in this small Vermont town, Principal Lydia Cochrane watched a gaggle of kids chase one another and a soccer ball around their school recess yard. Between drop-off and first bell, they were free, loud and constantly moving. With only about 60 students in prekindergarten through sixth grade, Peacham Elementary is the sort of school where all the kids know one another and locals regularly respond to calls for supplies and volunteers for field trips and other school activities. Cochrane gestured at the freshly raked wood chips around the swings and climbing structures, one of many tasks Peacham families completed at a recent community workday.
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5 years after California banned holding college studentsâ transcripts hostage for unpaid debt, some colleges neglect the law OAKLAND â In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from gettingâŠ
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5 years after California banned holding college studentsâ transcripts hostage for unpaid debt, some colleges neglect the law
OAKLAND â In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five years later, 24 of the stateâs 115 community colleges still said on their websites that students with unpaid balances could lose access to their transcripts, according to a recent UC Merced survey. The communications failure has been misleading, student advocates said, although overall, the stateâs students have benefited from the law. It âraises questions about what actual institutional practices are at colleges and the extent to which colleges know the law and are fully compliant with the law,â said Charlie Eaton, a UC Merced sociology professor who led the research team that conducted the survey in October.
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Probes into racism in schools stall under Trump LUBBOCK, Texas â The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer â and then the litany of injustices came pouring out. A Black high school football player was called a âbâh-assâ n-word during a game by white players in September with noâŠ
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LUBBOCK, Texas â The meeting of the local NAACP chapter began with a prayer â and then the litany of injustices came pouring out. A Black high school football player was called a âbâh-assâ n-word during a game by white players in September with no consequence, his mom said. A Black 12-year-old boy, falsely accused last December of touching a white girlâs breast, was threatened and interrogated by a police officer at school without his parents and sentenced to a disciplinary alternative school for a month, his grandfather recounted. A Black honors student was wrongly accused by a white teacher of having a vape (it was a pencil sharpener) and sentenced to the alternative school for a month this fall, her mom said.
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11 numbers that capture the Trump effect on education About 1.5 million people teach on college campuses in the United States, and nearly 4 million teachers work in its public elementary and secondary schools. More than 15 million undergraduates attend U.S. colleges and universities. There areâŠ
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11 numbers that capture the Trump effect on education
About 1.5 million people teach on college campuses in the United States, and nearly 4 million teachers work in its public elementary and secondary schools. More than 15 million undergraduates attend U.S. colleges and universities. There are more than 50 million school-age children across the country. They all have one thing in common: Federal education policy affects their lives. President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon say they want to close the Department of Education and return control of education to the states. At the same time, however, they have aggressively, and rapidly, wielded federal power over schools.
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How education changed in one year under Trump Even with a conservative think tankâs blueprint detailing how the second Trump administration should reimagine the federal governmentâs role in education, few might have predicted what actually materialized this year for America's schools and colleges.âŠ
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How education changed in one year under Trump
Even with a conservative think tankâs blueprint detailing how the second Trump administration should reimagine the federal governmentâs role in education, few might have predicted what actually materialized this year for America's schools and colleges. Or what might be yet to come. â2025 will go down as a banner year for education: the year we restored merit in higher education, rooted out waste, fraud and abuse, and began in earnest returning education to the states,â Education Secretary Linda McMahon told The Hechinger Report. She listed canceling K-12 grants she called wasteful, investing more in charter schools, ending college admissions that consider race or anything beyond academic achievement and…
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The Trump administrationâs biggest impact on education in 2025
It was almost impossible for the average observer to keep track of the Trump administrationâs biggest impacts on education in 2025. Hereâs what changed across colleges and universities, K-12 schools, ...
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A new âsolutionâ to student homelessness: A parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars LONG BEACH, Calif. â When Edgar Rosales Jr. uses the word âhome,â the second-year college student with a linebackerâs build isnât referring to the house he plans to buy after becoming a nurse orâŠ
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A new âsolutionâ to student homelessness: A parking lot where students can sleep safely in their carsÂ
LONG BEACH, Calif. â When Edgar Rosales Jr. uses the word âhome,â the second-year college student with a linebackerâs build isnât referring to the house he plans to buy after becoming a nurse or getting a job in public health. Rather, the Long Beach City College student is talking about the parking lot he slept in every night for more than a year. With Oprah-esque enthusiasm, Rosales calls the other students who use LBCCâs Safe Parking Program his âroommatesâ or âneighbors.â Between 8 and 10:30 p.m., those neighbors drive onto the lot, where staff park during the day.
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Under Trump, protecting studentsâ civil rights looks very different The 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers. A camera captured him being forced into a small, empty room with a single paper-covered window. The staffers shut the door in his face. Alone, the boyâŠ
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Under Trump, protecting studentsâ civil rights looks very different
The 10-year-old was dragged down a school hallway by two school staffers. A camera captured him being forced into a small, empty room with a single paper-covered window. The staffers shut the door in his face. Alone, the boy curled into a ball on the floor. When school employees returned more than 10 minutes later, blood from his face smeared the floor. Maryland state lawmakers were shown this video in 2017 by Leslie Seid Margolis, a lawyer with the advocacy group Disability Rights Maryland. Sheâd spent 15 years advocating for a ban on the practice known as seclusion, in which children, typically those with disabilities, are involuntarily isolated and confined, often after emotional outbursts.
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Grow apprentice programs and fund them as well as SF in order to "train early childhood educators & to boost pay enough so teachers can [do] it for the long term,â writes
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With preschool teachers in short supply, cities, states turn to apprenticeships
Preschool teachers are generally in short supply, and many who attempt this work quickly quit these typically low-paying jobs. Some places are using apprenticeships â a training arrangement more commo...
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One cityâs big bet on finding badly needed early educators â and getting them to stay This audio is sponsored by Teaching Strategies SAN FRANCISCO â In a playground outside a YMCA, Mayra Aguilar rolled purple modeling dough into balls that fit easily into the palms of the toddlers sitting acrossâŠ
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One cityâs big bet on finding badly needed early educators â and getting them to stay
This audio is sponsored by Teaching Strategies SAN FRANCISCO â In a playground outside a YMCA, Mayra Aguilar rolled purple modeling dough into balls that fit easily into the palms of the toddlers sitting across from her. She helped a little girl named Wynter unclasp a bicycle helmet that sheâd put on to zoom around the space on a tricycle. Aguilar smiled, the sun glinting off her saucer-sized gold hoop earrings. âSay, âThank you, teacher,ââ Aguilar prompted Wynter, who was just shy of 3. Other toddlers crowded around Wynter and Aguilar and a big plastic bin of Crayola Dough, and Aguilar took the moment to teach another brief lesson.
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Trumpâs attacks on DEI may hurt men in college admission  Brown University, one of the most selective institutions in America, attracted nearly 50,000 applicants who vied for just 1,700 freshman seats last year. The university accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female prospects, evenâŠ
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Trumpâs attacks on DEI may hurt men in college admission Â
Brown University, one of the most selective institutions in America, attracted nearly 50,000 applicants who vied for just 1,700 freshman seats last year. The university accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female prospects, even though, like some other schools, it got nearly twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for male students to get in â 7 percent of male applicants were admitted, compared to 4.4 percent of female applicants, university data show. The Trump administrationâs policies may soon end that advantage that has been enjoyed by men, admissions and higher education experts say.
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A court recently ruled that the Trump administration cannot dismantle the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, which supports libraries and other programs all over the country. Earlier this year,
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A South Dakota museum takes students on flights to the stars, but future trips are in question because of cuts from the Trump administration cuts
The Institute for Museum and Library Services was established in 1996 and is the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries like the South Dakota Discovery Center in Pierre. The Trump...
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No college degree, no problem? Not so fast DENVER â On a bus headed downtown, Cherri McKinney opened a compact mirror and â even as the vehicle rattled and blinding morning sun filled the window â skillfully applied eyeliner. McKinney is a licensed aesthetician. She went into bookkeeping afterâŠ
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No college degree, no problem? Not so fast
DENVER â On a bus headed downtown, Cherri McKinney opened a compact mirror and â even as the vehicle rattled and blinding morning sun filled the window â skillfully applied eyeliner. McKinney is a licensed aesthetician. She went into bookkeeping after graduating from high school in 1992, then ran a waxing salon for years. Later she shifted into human resources at a homeless shelter. But stepping off the bus, she started her work day as a benefits and leave administrator for Coloradoâs Department of Labor and Employment. She wouldnât have made it past some hiring managers.
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How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year This audio is sponsored by SXSW EDU Inauguration Day was a time of hope for the MAGA faithful who watched President Donald Trump take his second oath of office in the Capitol rotunda. But less than a mile away, at the DepartmentâŠ
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How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
This audio is sponsored by SXSW EDU Inauguration Day was a time of hope for the MAGA faithful who watched President Donald Trump take his second oath of office in the Capitol rotunda. But less than a mile away, at the Department of Education, fear and uncertainty reigned. Researchers, contractors and federal staff â the corner of the Education Department that I cover â braced for potentially devastating upheaval. Would the department itself be eliminated, as Trump had promised during the campaign? Would congressionally mandated research and statistical programs move to other agencies?
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The race for two seats on the Lakeland school board in Idaho was not about school issues, but about allegiances. It offers an urgent message about strategy and power. Reported with
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A Republican homeschooling mom came to love her public schools. Now sheâs fighting other conservatives she thinks will destroy them
In North Idaho, a local momâs efforts to wrest school board control from MAGA conservatives ended in disappointment on Election Day. How it happened carries a message about political power.
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Why one reading expert says âjust-rightâ books are all wrong.
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She wanted to keep her son in his school district. It was more challenging than it seemed This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. ATLANTA â It was the worst summer in years. Sechita McNairâs family took no vacations. Her younger boys didnât go to camp. HerâŠ
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She wanted to keep her son in his school district. It was more challenging than it seemed
This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. ATLANTA â It was the worst summer in years. Sechita McNairâs family took no vacations. Her younger boys didnât go to camp. Her van was repossessed, and her family nearly got evicted â again. But she accomplished the one thing she wanted most. A few weeks before school started, McNair, an out-of-work film industry veteran barely getting by driving for Uber, signed a lease in the right Atlanta neighborhood so her eldest son could stay at his high school.
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Colleges ease the dreaded admissions process as the supply of applicants declines PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. â As she approached her senior year in high school, the thought of moving on to college was âscary and intimidatingâ to Milianys Santiago â especially since she would be the first in her family toâŠ
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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. â As she approached her senior year in high school, the thought of moving on to college was âscary and intimidatingâ to Milianys Santiago â especially since she would be the first in her family to earn a degree. Once she began working on her applications this fall, however, she was surprised. âIt hasnât been as stressful as I thought it would be,â she said. Itâs not that Santiagoâs anxiety was misplaced: The college admissions process has been so notoriously anxiety inducing that students and their parents plan for it for years and â if social media is any indication â seem to consider an acceptance as…
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Do male teachers make a difference? Not as much as some think The teaching profession is one of the most female-dominated in the United States. Among elementary school teachers, 89 percent are women, and in kindergarten, that number is almost 97 percent. Many sociologists, writers and parents haveâŠ
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Do male teachers make a difference? Not as much as some think
The teaching profession is one of the most female-dominated in the United States. Among elementary school teachers, 89 percent are women, and in kindergarten, that number is almost 97 percent. Many sociologists, writers and parents have questioned whether this imbalance hinders young boys at the start of their education. Are female teachers less understanding of boysâ need to horse around? Or would male role models inspire boys to learn their letters and times tables? Some advocates point to research that lays out why boys ought to do better with male teachers.
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Advocates warn of risks to higher ed data if Education Department is shuttered Even with the government shut down, lots of people are thinking about how to reimagine federal education research. Public comments on how to reform the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the Education DepartmentâsâŠ
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Advocates warn of risks to higher ed data if Education Department is shuttered
Even with the government shut down, lots of people are thinking about how to reimagine federal education research. Public comments on how to reform the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the Education Departmentâs research and statistics arm, were due on Oct. 15. A total of 434 suggestions were submitted, but no one can read them because the department isnât allowed to post them publicly until the government reopens. (We know the number because the comment entry page has an automatic counter.) A complex numbers game Thereâs broad agreement across the political spectrum that federal education statistics are essential.
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Federal policies risk worsening an already dire rural teacher shortage HALIFAX COUNTY, N.C. â When Ivy McFarland first traveled from her native Honduras to teach elementary Spanish in North Carolina, she spent a week in Chapel Hill for orientation. By the end of that week, McFarland realized theâŠ
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HALIFAX COUNTY, N.C. â When Ivy McFarland first traveled from her native Honduras to teach elementary Spanish in North Carolina, she spent a week in Chapel Hill for orientation. By the end of that week, McFarland realized the college town on the outskirts of Raleigh was nowhere near where sheâd actually be teaching. On the car ride to her school district, the city faded into the suburbs. Those suburbs turned into farmland. The farmland stretched into more farmland, until, two hours later, she made it to her new home in rural Halifax County.
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Universal vouchers have public schools worried about something new: market share TALLAHASSEE, Fla. â As principal of Hartsfield Elementary School in the Leon County School District, John Olson is not just the lead educator, but in this era of fast-expanding school choice, also its chiefâŠ
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. â As principal of Hartsfield Elementary School in the Leon County School District, John Olson is not just the lead educator, but in this era of fast-expanding school choice, also its chief salesperson. He works to drum up enrollment by speaking to parent and church groups, offering private tours and giving Hartsfield parents his cell phone number. He fields calls on nights, weekends and holidays. With the building at just 61 percent capacity, Olson is frank about the hustle required: âCustomer service is key.â Itâs no secret that many public schools are in a battle for students.
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Students worried about getting jobs are adding extra majors After he graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Drew Wesson hopes to begin a career in strategic communication, a field with higher-than-average job growth and earnings. One year into his time at the university, Wesson becameâŠ
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Students worried about getting jobs are adding extra majors
After he graduates from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Drew Wesson hopes to begin a career in strategic communication, a field with higher-than-average job growth and earnings. One year into his time at the university, Wesson became more strategic about this goal. Like nearly 1 in 3 of his classmates, he declared a second major to better stand out in an unpredictable labor market. Itâs part of a trend thatâs spreading nationwide, according to a Hechinger Report analysis of federal data, as students fret about getting jobs in an economy that some fear is shifting faster than a traditional college education can keep up.
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What research says about Mamdani and Cuomoâs education proposals New York City, where I live, will elect a new mayor Tuesday, Nov. 4. The two front runners â state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent â have largely ignored theâŠ
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What research says about Mamdani and Cuomoâs education proposals
New York City, where I live, will elect a new mayor Tuesday, Nov. 4. The two front runners â state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, and former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent â have largely ignored the cityâs biggest single budget item: education. One exception has been gifted education, which has generated a sharp debate between the two candidates. The controversy is over a tiny fraction of the student population. Only 18,000 students are in the cityâs gifted and talented program out of more than 900,000 public school students.
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Child care crisis deepens as funding slashed for poor families The first hint of trouble for McKinley Hess came in August. Hess, who runs an infant and toddler care program in Conway, Arkansas, heard that the teen moms she serves were having trouble getting their expected child care assistanceâŠ
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Child care crisis deepens as funding slashed for poor families
The first hint of trouble for McKinley Hess came in August. Hess, who runs an infant and toddler care program in Conway, Arkansas, heard that the teen moms she serves were having trouble getting their expected child care assistance payments. Funded by a mix of federal and state dollars, those subsidies are the only way many low-income parents nationwide can afford child care, by reimbursing providers for care and lowering the amount parents have to pay themselves. In Arkansas, teen parents have long been given priority to receive this aid. But now, Hess heard, they and many other families in need were sitting on a…
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Weâre testing preschoolers for giftedness. Experts say that doesnât work When I was a kindergartner in the 1980s, the âgiftedâ programming for my class could be found inside of a chest. I donât know what toys and learning materials lived there, since I wasnât one of the handful of presumably moreâŠ
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Weâre testing preschoolers for giftedness. Experts say that doesnât work
When I was a kindergartner in the 1980s, the âgiftedâ programming for my class could be found inside of a chest. I donât know what toys and learning materials lived there, since I wasnât one of the handful of presumably more academically advanced kiddos that my kindergarten teacher invited to open the chest. My distinct impression at the time was that my teacher didnât think I was worthy of the enrichment because I frequently spilled my chocolate milk at lunch and I had also once forgotten to hang a sheet of paper on the class easel â instead painting an elaborate and detailed picture on the stand itself.
https://hechingerreport.org/were-testing-preschoolers-for-giftedness-experts-say-that-doesnt-work/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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âThe clock is tickingâ: Shutdown imperils food, child care for many For families in more than a hundred Head Start programs across the country, November could mark the beginning of some hard decisions. On Saturday, 134 Head Start centers serving 58,400 children would normally receive their annualâŠ
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âThe clock is tickingâ: Shutdown imperils food, child care for many
For families in more than a hundred Head Start programs across the country, November could mark the beginning of some hard decisions. On Saturday, 134 Head Start centers serving 58,400 children would normally receive their annual federal funding, but the ongoing government shutdown has put that money in jeopardy. The federally funded Head Start provides free preschool and child care for low-income families, and is particularly important to rural communities with few other child care options. At the same time, the federal government has said that because of the shutdown, it cannot distribute Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits that families also expect on the first of the month.
https://hechingerreport.org/the-clock-is-ticking-shutdown-imperils-food-child-care-for-many/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Why one reading expert says âjust-right booksâ are all wrong Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has spent his career evaluating education research and helping teachers figure out what works best in the classroom. A leader of the National Reading Panel,âŠ
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Why one reading expert says âjust-right booksâ are all wrong
Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has spent his career evaluating education research and helping teachers figure out what works best in the classroom. A leader of the National Reading Panel, whose 2000 report helped shape whatâs now known as the âscience of reading,â Shanahan has long influenced literacy instruction in the United States. He also served on the National Institute for Literacyâs advisory board in both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Shanahan is a scholar whom I regularly consult when I come across a reading study, and so I was eager to interview him about…
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-shanahan-leveled-reading/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change This story first appeared in Hechingerâs climate and education newsletter. Sign up here. In Illinois, the Chicago Teachers Union won a contract with the cityâs schools to add solar panels on some buildings and clean energy career pathwaysâŠ
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Teachers unions leverage contracts to fight climate change
This story first appeared in Hechingerâs climate and education newsletter. Sign up here. In Illinois, the Chicago Teachers Union won a contract with the cityâs schools to add solar panels on some buildings and clean energy career pathways for students, among other actions. In Minnesota, the Minneapolis Federation of Educators demanded that the district create a task force on environmental issues and provide free metro passes for students. And in California, the Los Angeles teachers unionâs demands include electrifying the districtâs bus fleet and providing electric vehicle charging stations at all schools.
https://hechingerreport.org/teachers-unions-leverage-contracts-to-fight-climate-change/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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School cellphone bans are perhaps a rare case in public policy, where the âdata back up the hunches.â But the academic benefits are rather small and they come with a cost.
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Cellphone bans can help kids learn â but Black students suspended at higher rates
Analysis of Florida school district after 2023 classroom cellphone restrictions shows reading and math test score gains
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-cellphone-bans/
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Heads up: Moms for Liberty urges members to turn their grievances into lawsuits.
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What Will Moms for Liberty Do, Now That MAGA Runs Everything? Apparently, Bring Lawsuits.
At their meeting, Charlie Kirkâs name was on everyoneâs lips.
https://slate.com/life/2025/10/moms-for-liberty-book-bans-school-boards.html
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At Moms for Liberty summit, parents urged to turn their grievances into lawsuits KISSIMMEE, Fla. â Itâs not a rebrand. But the Moms for Liberty group that introduced itself three years ago as a band of female âjoyful warriorsâ shedding domestic modesty to make raucous public challenges to masks,âŠ
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At Moms for Liberty summit, parents urged to turn their grievances into lawsuits
KISSIMMEE, Fla. â Itâs not a rebrand. But the Moms for Liberty group that introduced itself three years ago as a band of female âjoyful warriorsâ shedding domestic modesty to make raucous public challenges to masks, books and curriculum, is trying to glow up. The groupâs national summit this past weekend at a convention center outside Orlando leaned into family (read: parental rights), faith â and youth. The latter appeared to be a bid to join the cool kids who are the new face of conservatism in America (hint: young, Christian, very male), as well as a recognition of the groupâs âdiversity,â which includes grandparents, men and kids.
https://hechingerreport.org/at-moms-for-liberty-summit-parents-urged-to-turn-their-grievances-into-lawsuits/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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I covered special education and children with disabilities for years before I became an editor - this week I had a chance to dust off the source list and pull together a story on just what the heck is happening in the federal special education office:
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Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education department
Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group tha...
https://hechingerreport.org/parents-advocates-alarmed-as-trump-leverages-shutdown-to-gut-special-education-department/
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Cellphone bans can help kids learn â but Black students are suspended more as schools make the shift Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But itâs not clear whether this policy â unpopular withâŠ
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Cellphone bans can help kids learn â but Black students are suspended more as schools make the shift
Thirty states now limit or ban cellphone use in classrooms, and teachers are noticing children paying attention to their lessons again. But itâs not clear whether this policy â unpopular with students and a headache for teachers to enforce â makes an academic difference. If student achievement goes up after a cellphone ban, itâs tough to know if the ban was the reason. Some other change in math or reading instruction might have caused the improvement. Or maybe the state assessment became easier to pass. Imagine if politicians required all students to wear striped shirts and test scores rose.
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-cellphone-bans/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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The Education Department is close to functionally disappearing. I didn't think this could happen, and I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Here's a piece I wrote on how the hollowing out is affecting special education:
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Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education department
Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group tha...
https://hechingerreport.org/parents-advocates-alarmed-as-trump-leverages-shutdown-to-gut-special-education-department/
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Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education department Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group that worksâŠ
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Parents, advocates alarmed as Trump leverages shutdown to gut special education department
Two months after Education Secretary Linda McMahon was confirmed, she and a small team from the department met with leadership from the National Center for Learning Disabilities, an advocacy group that works on behalf of millions of students with dyslexia and other disorders. Jacqueline Rodriguez, NCLDâs chief executive officer, recalled pressing McMahon on a question raised during her confirmation hearing: Was the Trump administration planning to move control and oversight of special education law from the Education Department to Health and Human Services? Rodriguez was alarmed at the prospect of uprooting the 50-year-old Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA), which spells out the responsibility of schools to provide a âfree, appropriate public educationâ to students with disabilities.
https://hechingerreport.org/parents-advocates-alarmed-as-trump-leverages-shutdown-to-gut-special-education-department/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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As more question the value of a degree, colleges fight to prove their return on investment This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. WASHINGTON â For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college â or whether to go at all â has become aâŠ
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As more question the value of a degree, colleges fight to prove their return on investment
This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. WASHINGTON â For a generation of young Americans, choosing where to go to college â or whether to go at all â has become a complex calculation of costs and benefits that often revolves around a single question: Is the degree worth its price? Public confidence in higher education has plummeted in recent years amid high tuition prices, skyrocketing student loans and a dismal job market â plus ideological concerns from conservatives. Now, colleges are scrambling to prove their value to students.
https://hechingerreport.org/as-more-question-the-value-of-a-degree-colleges-fight-to-prove-their-return-on-investment/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Big Oil should help foot the bill for lost school time, students say Last January, Diego Sandovalâs high school in San Diego County closed abruptly one Friday because of wildfires menacing the Southern California area. Classmates evacuated their homes as the fire spread. Frida Vergara, whoseâŠ
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Big Oil should help foot the bill for lost school time, students say
Last January, Diego Sandovalâs high school in San Diego County closed abruptly one Friday because of wildfires menacing the Southern California area. Classmates evacuated their homes as the fire spread. Frida Vergara, whose school was among the few in the area that didnât close, recalls that friends with asthma were coughing and wheezing from the smoke. It wasnât the first time the students â both 17-year-old seniors in the Sweetwater Union High School District â saw how extreme weather disrupted learning. A year earlier, floods swamped parts of the county, …
https://hechingerreport.org/students-want-to-send-bill-for-lost-school-time-to-big-oil/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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NJ advisory group to probe how students with disabilities are separated from their peers In New Jersey, fewer than half of 6- and 7-year-olds in special education spend the vast majority of their day with their classmates without disabilities. That might change, though, because a state specialâŠ
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NJ advisory group to probe how students with disabilities are separated from their peersÂ
In New Jersey, fewer than half of 6- and 7-year-olds in special education spend the vast majority of their day with their classmates without disabilities. That might change, though, because a state special education advisory group has pledged to examine the issue. Earlier this year, a Hechinger Report investigation revealed New Jersey is the worst in the nation when it comes to whatâs known as inclusion â measured by how often students of all abilities are learning alongside one another in the classroom for at least 80 percent of the day.
https://hechingerreport.org/nj-advisory-group-to-probe-how-students-with-disabilities-are-separated-from-their-peers/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Red school boards in a blue state asked Trump for help â and got it MEAD, Wash. â A few weeks after President Donald Trump took office, the conservative school board leaders in this town near the Idaho border made a bet. They would pit one Washington against the other and see what happened. ForâŠ
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Red school boards in a blue state asked Trump for help â and got it
MEAD, Wash. â A few weeks after President Donald Trump took office, the conservative school board leaders in this town near the Idaho border made a bet. They would pit one Washington against the other and see what happened. For years, Democrats in control of the state had required every school district to have policies on the books that protect transgender students from bullying and prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity. The Mead school board unanimously approved a policy in 2019 to comply with the state guidelines, with little comment.
https://hechingerreport.org/red-school-boards-in-a-blue-state-asked-trump-for-help-and-got-it/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Some social emotional lessons improve how kids do at school, Yale study finds Social emotional learning â lessons in soft skills like listening to people you disagree with or calming yourself down before a test â has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. The conservative political group MomsâŠ
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Some social emotional lessons improve how kids do at school, Yale study finds
Social emotional learning â lessons in soft skills like listening to people you disagree with or calming yourself down before a test â has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. The conservative political group Moms for Liberty opposes SEL, as it is often abbreviated, telling parents that its âgoal is to psychologically manipulate students to accept the progressive ideology that supports gender fluidity, sexual preference exploration, and systemic oppression.â Critics say that parents should discuss social and emotional matters at home and that schools should stick to academics. Meanwhile, some advocates on the left say standard SEL classes donât go far enough and should include such topics as social justice and anti-racism training.
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-sel-academic-benefits-yale-study/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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After years of quietly falling, college tuition is on the rise again Summer usually provides a respite for Connor Pavlicko from his duties as student body president at Slippery Rock University. But this summer, he was bombarded by classmates demanding to know why their tuition was suddenly goingâŠ
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After years of quietly falling, college tuition is on the rise again
Summer usually provides a respite for Connor Pavlicko from his duties as student body president at Slippery Rock University. But this summer, he was bombarded by classmates demanding to know why their tuition was suddenly going up. What made these students particularly angry was that the 3.6 percent increase followed a span since 2018 in which tuition at public universities in Pennsylvania, including Slippery Rock, had been frozen in place, said Pavlicko, a junior political science and government major from Ohio. âThis is happening everywhere,â he said he found after âendlessly doomscrollingâ social media.
https://hechingerreport.org/after-years-of-quietly-falling-college-tuition-is-on-the-rise-again/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Many children with ADHD miss a crucial step in treatment When pediatricians diagnose preschoolers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, there are clear steps they are supposed to take. Families should first be referred to behavior therapy, which teaches caregivers how to better supportâŠ
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Many children with ADHD miss a crucial step in treatment
When pediatricians diagnose preschoolers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, there are clear steps they are supposed to take. Families should first be referred to behavior therapy, which teaches caregivers how to better support their children and manage challenging behaviors that may be related to ADHD. If therapy isn't making a significant difference, the American Academy of Pediatrics advises, pediatricians can then consider medication. Nationwide, this process â behavior therapy, then medication if needed â isnât being followed as often as it should, according to a study recently released by Stanford Medicine…
https://hechingerreport.org/many-children-with-adhd-miss-a-crucial-step-in-treatment/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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COLUMN: Trumpâs push for âpatrioticâ education could further chill history instruction High school history teacher Antoine Stroman says he wants his students to ask âthe hard questionsâ â about slavery, Jim Crow, the murder of George Floyd and other painful episodes that have shaped the UnitedâŠ
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COLUMN: Trumpâs push for âpatrioticâ education could further chill history instruction
High school history teacher Antoine Stroman says he wants his students to ask âthe hard questionsâ â about slavery, Jim Crow, the murder of George Floyd and other painful episodes that have shaped the United States. Now, Stroman worries that President Donald Trumpâs push for âpatriotic educationâ could complicate the direct, factual way he teaches such events. Last month, the president announced a plan to present American history that emphasizes âa unifying and uplifting portrayal of the nation's founding ideals,â and inspires âa love of country.â Stroman does not believe students at the…
https://hechingerreport.org/column-trumps-push-for-patriotic-education-could-further-chill-history-instruction/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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