Ed researchers: Come interrogate the media at our #AERA2025 AERA sesh on Fri, April 25 from 9:50 to 11:20 at the Colorado Convention Center, Mile High Ballroom AB. Looking forward to discussing ed research coverage with Chalkbeat Eric Gorski and The 74 Kevin Mahnken

Cuts to #NAEP, an investigation into Berkeley, texts to Barnard faculty and staff about whether they are Jewish... this and a lot more in The Hechinger Report tracker on the Trump administration's actions on education hechingerreport.org/tracking-trump… #K12 #highered #education

One small example of a successful pushback to DOGE cuts. DOGE had let funds for the Education Department's online library ERIC run out last week. Funds have restarted -- albeit by only half as much. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-r…

“I just don't feel safe going to the U.S. right now.” The Trump administration's immigration policies are pushing international students away from U.S. universities. That's a big problem. Read more from The Hechinger Report: teenvogue.com/story/trump-im…

A 🎯 on the back of ed research. Education sector accounts for 40 percent of the latest National Science Foundation cuts. Follows staggering cuts at the Institute of Education Science. hechingerreport.org/proof-points-n…

Two TN districts are bucking the national middle-school math slump. Here's what they're doing. hechingerreport.org/these-district… My latest in The Hechinger Report

Were you a part of #Americorps? Did you volunteer in a school? Write me: [email protected] or NirviShah.14 on Signal

More than half of colleges that have closed since 2020 were religiously affiliated, which are among the institutions most imperiled by enrollment and financial challenges. tinyurl.com/5ax3pr3e The Hechinger Report

College Board cancels award program for high-performing Black and Latino students ⁦The Hechinger Report⁩ hechingerreport.org/college-board-…

One of the first calls I received after joining The Hechinger Report last year was from retired Rep. Charlie Rangel, who was moved into action by a story from Meredith Kolodner, co-reported with the The New York Times. hechingerreport.org/columbia-and-n…

Faculty say this long-held academic practice is a safeguard of their right to free expression hechingerreport.org/behind-the-tur…

A grant-supported program found success as it steered young people connected to gangs into higher education — until the money stopped coming via Gail Cornwall for The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/from-gangs-to-… #highered #college

She is clear about what was lost by the firing of the head of a nonpartisan statistical agency: an objective assessment of how American students are doing: hechingerreport.org/proof-points-p… via Jill Barshay

In my story, I reported that an Ed Dept official said that federal data is safe and will soon be transferred to IES’s secure servers. Just learned from a former senior ED official that "IES doesn't have secure servers. That was part of the problem." hechingerreport.org/proof-points-p…

Thinking about #college? Check out some of The Hechinger Report tools to help you think through your plans, including a brand new and upgraded experience at TuitionTracker.org

Absenteeism rates at schools across the nation have come down a bit in recent years, but they're still stubbornly higher than they used to be before the pandemic. Some surprising things I have learned. (1/5)

Absenteeism is big biz and companies are peddling costly services and tech solutions to schools. Here's a sampling of what schools that have succeeded in reducing their chronic absenteeism rates are actually doing. (Spoiler: outside vendors not required). hechingerreport.org/proof-points-s…

Curbing Student Absenteeism: Adding bus stops, serving biscuits and gravy, and catching butterflies - school district strategies are all over the map, New from ⁦Jill Barshay⁩ ⁦The Hechinger Report⁩ hechingerreport.org/proof-points-s…

“You would almost think that whoever implemented this didn’t know what they were doing:" hechingerreport.org/proof-points-n… via Jill Barshay

For 60 years, TRIO has helped millions of people along the path to a degree, but the administration says it is no longer needed via Michael Vasquez for The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/these-federal-… #college #HigherEducation #HigherEd