My dispatch from the Pro-Palestine protest in Oxford today, one of the most... astonishing things I've ever seen Mississippi Today mississippitoday.org/2024/05/02/it-…

.Rachel Janfaza spoke to college seniors about graduating amid mass protests four years after graduating amid COVID lockdowns
tinyurl.com/msvwhnk4 Teen Vogue

“Embrace the wilderness, embrace the axe.” How universities are trying to recruit men. tinyurl.com/4av85zmz

BREAKING: Houston ISD to cut more than 100 wraparound staff who serve students experiencing homelessness and hunger

Miles previously told me he would not make cuts to this dept because the needs of Houston students are too high

Story: houstonlanding.org/houston-isd-to…

Could we be doing a better job teaching math in kindergarten? Let us count the ways: hechingerreport.org/kindergarten-m…

I've also heard from principals that the focus on the 90% threshold can create some strange attendance incentives for schools, ie focusing more resources on the kid with 85% attendance who can be nudged over the line than the one with 60% attendance.

We asked NYC high schoolers what they think of the campus protests + response, + how it’s affecting their college plans.

Here’s what one student weighing CCNY said:

W/Alex Zimmerman

chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…

My story: Is the latest FAFSA fix too little, too late? And is it even a fix? tinyurl.com/yxz9atsd

I rarely look at comments but if you do on the NYT story on admissions today you will see higher ed even lost the monied, degreed class. They even think higher ed is a scam now. That's not good for most colleges. Something needs to change--and fast.

Over 80 colleges have set up encampments or sit-ins in the past two weeks. See our updated map: chronicle.com/article/heres-…

Coming tomorrow — an analysis of how dozens of colleges have responded to the encampments. Stay tuned!

'This is because the world does not have to be this way and that other worlds are possible.' Two Barnard students talk to Meredith Kolodner about why they're protesting and their suspension/evictions hechingerreport.org/qa-suspended-b…

Among my other concerns with employer-sponsored child care, I think many people assume it is free or very low-cost for employees. Here we have Walmart HQ charging families nearly **$15,000** a year.

'The price is $1,117 to $1,258 per child per month.'

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Without child care, Derrika Richard couldn't work; and without work, she couldn't afford child care. It felt like an unsolvable problem until last fall, when she was accepted into a New Orleans tax-funded program that pays for child care seats:
hechingerreport.org/what-convinces…

K-4 reading reform and investment has swept across the country but adults who struggle with reading too often languish, with increasingly limited help available - often at a high cost. My latest for The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com/Commentary/202… w/ support from @mulawlubar O'Brien Fellowship

Thrilled to be honored by Headliner Awards for magazine writing for a The Hechinger Report story that was near to my heart for over a year, and examined what many consider the racist and classist underpinnings of how schools diagnose learning disabilities: headlinerawards.org/2024-print-pho…

Per The Chronicle of Higher Education's tracking, students at over 50 colleges in the U.S. (plus several overseas) have set up encampments or sit-ins calling for divestment from Israel: chronicle.com/article/heres-…

Our child care system gives many moms a draconian choice: Quality child care or a career - The Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org/our-child-care…

With just one exception--for those folks with absolutely zero prior school employment or engagement with the teacher pipeline--emergency certified teachers in MA during the pandemic were just as effective as traditionally licensed peers edworkingpapers.com/ai24-936

I'm at UT Dallas covering a sit-in in the administration building, where the president's office is located. I overheard campus police say they'll lock doors at 10pm. Students say they will stay until their demands are met. This is a developing story:
dallasnews.com/news/education…

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