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The U.S. government is pulling back from climate instruction. States, teachers and other countries are stepping up

2 days ago | hechingerreport.org | Anya Kamenetz

This past fall, at an event in New York City’s National Museum of the American Indian, a packed room of educators and federal employees applauded the release of a document titled “Climate Literacy: Essential Principles for Understanding and Addressing Climate Change.” The 52-page document, released at Climate Week NYC, laid out principles for improving young people’s understanding of the science, skills and aptitudes required to address this fast-moving global challenge — including “hope” and...
Supreme Court takes education cases that could challenge the separation of church and state

5 days ago | hechingerreport.org | Linda K. Wertheimer |Christina A. Samuels

The Supreme Court over the next two weeks will hear two cases that have the potential to erode the separation of church and state and create a seismic shift in public education. Mahmoud v. Taylor, which goes before the court on April 22, pits Muslim, Roman Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox families, as well as those of other faiths, against the Montgomery County school system in Maryland.
COLUMN: Trump is bullying, blackmailing and threatening colleges, and they are just beginning to fight back

1 week ago | hechingerreport.org | Liz Willen

Patricia McGuire has always been an outspoken advocate for her students at Trinity Washington University, a small, Catholic institution that serves largely Black and Hispanic women, just a few miles from the White House.
States try to tackle child care shortages — by lowering standards - The Hechinger Report

1 week ago | hechingerreport.org | Jackie Mader

When this year’s legislative session launched in Idaho, early childhood experts and advocates were hopeful that the state, which has a shortage of child care, would invest more in early learning programs. Instead, lawmakers proposed what may be the most extreme effort yet to deregulate child care in America: The bill called for eliminating state required staff-to-child ratios altogether, instead allowing child care providers to set their own.
College Uncovered: Tag, You’re In!

1 week ago | hechingerreport.org | Jon Marcus

What if colleges started applying to you instead of the other way around? The anxiety-inducing college admissions game is changing. With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. That’s 18 years after the Great Recession, when many American families stopped having babies.
International students may be among the biggest early beneficiaries of ChatGPT

1 week ago | hechingerreport.org | Jill Barshay

The public release of ChatGPT in November 2022 changed the world. A chatbot could instantly write paragraphs and papers, a task once thought to be uniquely human. Though it may take many years to understand the full consequences, a team of data scientists wanted to study how college writing might already be affected.
After the Los Angeles fires, Beverly Hills shut out students whose school burned

2 weeks ago | hechingerreport.org | Erin Rode

LOS ANGELES — After the Palisades Fire destroyed her son’s high school, Shoshanha Essakhar found herself among the thousands of Los Angeles County parents wondering what to do. “I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to be doing Zoom for the next God knows how long,’” said Essakhar. “It was a lot of fear, a lot of uncertainty.”The fire devastated , where Essakhar’s son was a ninth grader, as well as two elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Alabama high school requirements now allow students to trade chemistry for carpentry

2 weeks ago | hechingerreport.org | Ariel Gilreath

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In a corner of Huffman High School, the sounds of popping nail guns and whirring table saws fill the architecture and construction classroom. Down the hall, culinary students chop and saute in the school’s commercial kitchen, and in another room, cosmetology students snip mannequin hair to prepare for the state’s natural hair stylist license.
Knitting, cheerleading, fishing: This is what a cellphone ban looks like in one school district

2 weeks ago | hechingerreport.org | Neal Morton

SPOKANE, Wash. — During lunch on a Thursday, five dozen students rummaged through fishing lines and hooks, spreading reels and rods across desks in a science lab at Ferris High School for their weekly crash course in angling.
NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, was supposed to be safe. It's not

2 weeks ago | hechingerreport.org | Jill Barshay

In this era of extreme partisan divide, there’s very little that unites conservatives and liberals. But both sides have long backed the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is also called the Nation’s Report Card. Now even this test, touted as the “gold standard” among all assessments, is in jeopardy. Mass layoffs, funding disruptions, and threats of future steep cuts are worrying those who are aware of the inner workings of the NAEP test.