Misplaced trust: The extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land - The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/misplaced-trus…

“I always knew it would be expensive. I just didn’t know it would be this expensive.” hechingerreport.org/misplaced-trus…

How AI could transform the way schools test kids - The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/how-ai-could-t…

“To say you need to move to be prosperous is not a solution, and that’s pretty much been the solution since many of the coal mines disappeared.' Check out our new story on rural higher ed deserts- and how KY is trying to chart a different course hechingerreport.org/some-rural-sta…

The latest U.S. Department of Education update is a doozy:

~16% of FAFSAs require a correction.

~30% of forms “are potentially affected by known processing or data errors.”

~20% require corrected tax data from IRS. Colleges will start receiving those forms “by May 1.” tinyurl.com/4ey3s4h6

About time someone said this: 'Get a grip.'
nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opi…

Wow, this is very, very bad! The drop in FAFSA completions is about 40% nationwide.

Authors and companies that pushed flawed reading method fight back - The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/authors-and-co…

In the absence of federal funding, the ultra-rich are fronting the cost of child care initiatives. Jackie Mader The Hechinger Report

Free child care exists in America — if you cross paths with the right philanthropist kqed.org/mindshift/6329…

When getting a college degree is part of recovery - our new story looks at the growth of 'collegiate recovery programs' to help community college students in recovery fight self-doubt and make it to graduation hechingerreport.org/community-coll…

Interesting findings on teacher shortages and incentives to keep them: hechingerreport.org/proof-points-w… via Jill Barshay

Headed for ASU+GSV Summit? Come by and watch this documentary I worked on with rosearce. Soledad O'Brien and Naimah Jabali-Nash: asugsvsummit.com/sessions/film-…: w/Atnre Alleyne

But yeah, this part is 🤔

“Schools can choose which ISIR to use when providing financial aid offers …”

Fascinating conversation on the potential impacts of AI, with all its promise and pitfalls, on early childhood ed, via Ariel Gilreath with Isabelle Hau: hechingerreport.org/is-early-child…

We are celebrating the 70th anniv. of the great Brown v. Bd. decision as segregation continues to grow across the U.S. in spite of powerful evidence of the lifelong benefits of integrated schools. Read new major report. civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/news/press-rel…

Timely info about the financial aid process, in the first two episodes of the new season of the College Uncovered podcast, just out. tinyurl.com/mrzzp894 The Hechinger Report

Congrats to a tremendous group of incoming Spencer fellows! I'm thrilled to work with them Columbia Journalism in the fall!

The potential is real, but only if we are ensuring that all learners benefit: hechingerreport.org/opinion-artifi… via Age of Learning

So much unfairness, at a time when public school enrollment is declining: Big props to The Hechinger Report and I-team editor Sarah Butrymowicz: hechingerreport.org/suspended-forw…

In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended: hechingerreport.org/young-children… via Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report