What might happen if the Education Department were closed?
2024年11月22日 · Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota recently introduced a bill to unwind the Education Department and spread its work across other federal agencies.. The Hechinger Report tried to answer some of the questions raised by the possible dismantling of the department, consulting experts and advocates on student loans, special education, financial …
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2024年11月1日 · The College Welcome Guide is a collection of interactive charts and maps that help you assess campus culture. They list the demographics of faculty and students, services for veterans or students with disabilities and more. The maps outline the state-level laws that might be most relevant to matriculating students, such as restrictions on teaching Critical Race …
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More tools. The Offer Letter Decoder helps college applicants understand the financial aid offer letter they receive from a college or university.; The Hechinger Report created the College Closure Tracker to document the more than 800 colleges …
Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles student
2022年6月6日 · During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.. Corporal punishment has been on the decline in the United States for the last several decades, in part because of growing evidence that it harms students’ wellbeing and academic performance while also failing to improve their behavior long …
A decade of research on education inequality in America
2020年6月29日 · That didn’t mean there was a giant 70 percent improvement from $1,500. The Trump administration added together all sources of funds, including federal funding, which amounts to 8 percent of total school spending, while the Obama administration excluded federal funds, counting only state and local dollars, which make up more than 90 percent of education …
Tracking college closures - The Hechinger Report
2024年10月21日 · From 2008 to 2011, an average of seven colleges and universities shut down each year in the wake of the financial crisis. That four-year average had doubled to 14 by 2014 before reaching 32 by 2018.
Colleges teach kids how to hear differing opinions - The …
2024年12月3日 · The Bridging the Gap program is one of at least a dozen such initiatives launched at colleges and universities since 2020. Donald Trump’s reelection, and divisions on issues such as Israel and Palestine and LGBTQ+ rights, could intensify the need for such campus programs, experts say. So too could the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban, said Natasha …
Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child ...
2024年12月16日 · Due to a lack of adequate federal funding, only a fraction — about 10 percent — of families who are eligible actually get child care assistance. This leads parents to make desperate choices, like quitting jobs or putting off finding a permanent home, just to get or keep child care assistance.
Burnout symptoms increasing among college students - The …
2021年7月30日 · Their findings aligned with the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America study: Gen Z adults ages 18 to 23 reported significantly higher stress levels than other generations.Of the Gen Z adults who said they are in college, 87% said their education was a significant source of stress, and stress is often linked to burnout.
Sold a story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong
2022年10月20日 · This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago.