The Hechinger Report
MARCH 30, 2024
The federal Department of Education is investigating whether legacy preferences at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania constitute civil rights violations, and Yale president Peter Salovey said during a panel discussion last October that officials are deliberating the future of legacy admissions there.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 13, 2023
The nation should respond not just by returning to the pre-pandemic norm but by offering high-quality preschool education to every child. According to the most recent report released by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), a majority of 3- and 4-year-olds received no preschool education in 2021-22.
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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 12, 2023
1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
“If it does come true, we’re going to see massive changes,” said Mike Griffith, a school finance specialist at the Education Commission of the States, a think tank that aims to inform education policy. Related: College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025. birthrate hit a 30-year low.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 5, 2016
Why It Matters: More minority and low-income grads going to college could require stronger commitment to educate them. For higher education institutions to continue at that pace or boost it, they’ll need to find new ways of educating a student body increasingly composed of people who are the first in their family to enter college.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 11, 2016
One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. I do so in Seymour’s memory.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Now that the election is over, it’s time to get serious about solving our nation’s higher education crisis with support from our nation’s new leader. We need to pull together and galvanize the recommendations of our higher education leadership into real, positive policy change for our public universities.
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