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OPINION: We have a crisis in public school leadership: Our leaders are overwhelmed, overworked and lack the training the...
04/07/2025

OPINION: We have a crisis in public school leadership: Our leaders are overwhelmed, overworked and lack the training they need

We have a crisis in K-12 educational leadership. Burnout and turnover are high. If we want to preserve educational leaders and the schools they serve, we must make leaders a priority. Here’s what we...

Tribal colleges win reprieve from federal staff cuts
04/03/2025

Tribal colleges win reprieve from federal staff cuts

Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in New Mexico lost about 70 employees in mid-February amid widespread staffing cuts to federal agencies. The positions...

Is Head Start in danger?
04/03/2025

Is Head Start in danger?

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson launched “Project Head Start,” a summer program intended to help children from low-income families prepare for school. Sixty years later, Head Start has expanded...

04/03/2025

We are honored that “Affirmative Action Backlash” is a finalist in the News (Broadcast) category for the 2024 Education Writers Association awards for education reporting.

Soledad O'Brien Productions and Retro Report produced this documentary short for TIME, in partnership with The Hechinger Report, which also reported a story on how the rolling back of DEI efforts and scholarships is dramatically changing opportunities for students. Learn more: https://retroreport.org/uncategorized/beyond-admissions-supreme-court-race-ruling-reshapes-college-policies/

As EPA pulls back, advocates warn it’s schoolchildren who face the steepest risks
04/02/2025

As EPA pulls back, advocates warn it’s schoolchildren who face the steepest risks

Communities living and learning near petrochemical plants will face more pollution and less federal protection under Trump’s new policies.

En Puerto Rico, la campaña de Trump para desmantelar el Departamento de Educación pega más fuerte
04/02/2025

En Puerto Rico, la campaña de Trump para desmantelar el Departamento de Educación pega más fuerte

El sistema educativo de la isla depende en gran medida de la agencia. El gobierno de Biden hizo de su mejora una prioridad pero ahora los puertorriqueños temen lo que viene

OPINION: With higher education under siege, college presidents cannot afford to stay silent
04/01/2025

OPINION: With higher education under siege, college presidents cannot afford to stay silent

Higher education is under siege from the Trump administration. University presidents must band together. If they don’t speak out, what will later generations say when they look back at this dark, dark...

Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61
04/01/2025

Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61

Providers operating on ‘razor-thin margins’ worry about the possibility of deep cuts

Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know
03/31/2025

Special education and Trump: What parents and schools need to know

The Trump administration’s changes to the Department of Education have left parents and schools confused about what's to come. Here’s what we know about it all means for special education.

OPINION: Stop labeling kids and start revealing their strengths
03/31/2025

OPINION: Stop labeling kids and start revealing their strengths

In education post-pandemic, as students struggle to recover from learning loss and the mental health crisis, we have seen blame and negative labelling on a massive scale. It’s time to change the narrative...

Losing homeschool data
03/28/2025

Losing homeschool data

Tracking a Trump priority is now harder

In Puerto Rico, Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Department of Education has a particular bite
03/28/2025

In Puerto Rico, Trump’s campaign to dismantle the Department of Education has a particular bite

The island’s education system is unusually reliant on the agency. The Biden administration made improving it a priority — now Puerto Ricans fear what comes next

For centuries, logging was a seasonal, learn-on-the-job trade passed down from father to son. But as climate change and ...
03/27/2025

For centuries, logging was a seasonal, learn-on-the-job trade passed down from father to son. But as climate change and innovations in the industry have changed logging into a year-round business, there aren’t always enough workers to fill jobs.

“Our workforce was dying,” said Delbert Gannon, owner of Creekside Logging. “You couldn’t even pick from the bottom of the barrel. It was affecting our production and our ability to haul logs. We felt we had to do something.”

Around the country, community colleges are stepping in to run apprenticeship programs for heritage industries, such as logging and aquaculture, which are too small to run. These partnerships help colleges expand the workforce development programs central to their mission. The partnerships also help keep small businesses in small industries alive by managing state and federal grants and providing the equipment, courses and staff to train workers.

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Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students
03/27/2025

Do-it-yourself mental health efforts by community college students

Students are getting support to generate new ideas for campus support systems — and to turn the ideas into reality

Students try using AI to write scholarship essays — with little luck
03/25/2025

Students try using AI to write scholarship essays — with little luck

Experts suggest limiting AI to help with brainstorming and checking for mistakes

When a hurricane washes away a region’s child care system
03/24/2025

When a hurricane washes away a region’s child care system

Nearly six months after Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina, some child care centers remain closed and young kids are still reeling from the disruptions

OPINION: Why Relational Intelligence is the key to thriving in the AI era
03/24/2025

OPINION: Why Relational Intelligence is the key to thriving in the AI era

In our pursuit of data and efficiency, we have measured success by test scores and devalued the connections that matter most

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