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The Hechinger Report

Is early childhood education ready for AI?

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The field is just getting started with artificial intelligence, but experts say to be cautious about student privacy and potential bias.

What happens when suspensions get suspended?

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The Los Angeles school district’s decade-old ban on suspensions for ‘willful defiance’ has benefited students — but also required a major investment in less punitive discipline methods.

Vague school rules at the root of millions of student suspensions

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Students miss hundreds of thousands of days of school each year for subjective infractions like defiance and disorderly conduct.

Changing education could change the climate

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‘Education is the climate solution’: How young people are developing skills and resilience and reducing school systems’ carbon footprint.

Only a quarter of federally funded education innovations benefited students, report says

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Under the Investing in Innovation program, or i3, the federal government gave out $1.4 billion between 2010 and 2016 to education nonprofits and researchers for the purpose of developing and testing new ideas in the classroom. But only 26% of the innovations yielded any positive benefits.

Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

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The city’s public school enrollment has shrunk. Here’s how one district employee is fighting privatization, bad PR, segregation, and population loss to stem the tide.

How one district has diversified its advanced math classes—without the controversy

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Fights over ‘detracking’ have roiled other districts. But Union Public Schools, in Oklahoma, took a middle ground, adding tutoring and non-test-based ways for students to qualify for advanced math.

The mental health needs of Black and Hispanic girls often go unmet. This group wraps them in support

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Working on Womanhood, a school-based mental health program, makes students feel "heard and understood."

Teaching social studies in a polarized world

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At a national conference, social studies educators discussed how the culture wars are reshaping their work at a time when simply teaching the subject may be viewed as political.

Arizona gave families public money for private schools. Then private schools raised tuition.

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Some private schools across the state are hiking their tuition by thousands of dollars. That risks pricing the students that lawmakers said they intended to serve out of private schools, in some cases limiting those options to wealthier families and those who already attended private institutions.

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