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‘Wasted money’: How career training companies scoop up federal funds with...
Dora Bray Magilke had been unemployed for over a month when someone from her local career center in Branson, Missouri, reached out in the summer of 2020 with an offer. Magilke qualified for a...
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Five things you need to know about sex ed in the US
The landscape of sex ed in the United States is confusing. What students are taught, and in what grades, varies widely from one school district to another. In many communities, how to talk with kids...
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‘They just tried to scare us’: How anti-abortion centers teach sex ed inside...
When Sarah Anderson travels to Texas middle schools to teach sex education, she brings props: a toy baby to represent unplanned pregnancy, a snake for bacterial infections, a pregnancy test for...
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How we made our College Welcome Guide
Beyond the Rankings: College Welcome Guide What kind of culture and political atmosphere does your prospective campus have? Use our tool to find out. To create our College Welcome Guide we relied on...
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Holding transcripts hostage may get a lot harder, thanks to new federal rules
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education....
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Hechinger’s school discipline project: How we did it
The Hechinger Report spent the last year investigating a major subset of school discipline: suspensions and expulsions for vague, subjective categories like defiance, disruption and disorderly...
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Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions
A Rhode Island student smashed a ketchup packet with his fist, splattering an administrator. Another ripped up his school work. The district called it “destruction of school property.” A Washington...
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Students with disabilities often snared by subjective discipline rules
For the first 57 minutes of the basketball game between two Bend, Oregon, high school rivals, Kyra Rice stood at the edges of the court taking yearbook photos. With just minutes before the end of the...
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PROOF POINTS: Four things a mountain of school discipline records taught us
Editor’s note: Substituting for Jill Barshay is Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report’s investigations editor. Jill will return next week. Every school day, thousands of students are suspended for...
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Which colleges offer child care for student-parents?
Student-parents disproportionately give up before they reach the finish line. Fewer than 4 in 10 graduate with a degree within six years, compared with more than 6 in 10 other students. Search to...
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