2024年11月22日 · Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota late last year introduced a bill to unwind the Education Department and spread its work across other federal agencies. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky also introduced legislation to abolish the department.. The Hechinger Report tried to answer some of the questions raised by the possible dismantling of the …

2022年6月6日 · During the 2017-18 school year, more than 69,000 students received corporal punishment almost 97,000 times nationwide.. Corporal punishment has been on the decline in the United States for the last several decades, in part because of growing evidence that it harms students’ wellbeing and academic performance while also failing to improve their behavior long …

More tools. The Offer Letter Decoder helps college applicants understand the financial aid offer letter they receive from a college or university.; The Hechinger Report created the College Closure Tracker to document the more than 800 colleges …

2024年10月21日 · From 2008 to 2011, an average of seven colleges and universities shut down each year in the wake of the financial crisis. That four-year average had doubled to 14 by 2014 before reaching 32 by 2018.

2025年1月7日 · The evidence that parents matter a lot is rock solid. In the early 1980s, Herbert Walberg, a pioneering professor of education at the University of Illinois Chicago, published a major study about what drives student learning. He found a key driver was the “alterable curriculum of the home” — namely, what parents talk about and do with their kids.

2024年11月1日 · The College Welcome Guide is a collection of interactive charts and maps that help you assess campus culture. They list the demographics of faculty and students, services for veterans or students with disabilities and more. The maps outline the state-level laws that might be most relevant to matriculating students, such as restrictions on teaching Critical Race …

2024年12月3日 · The Bridging the Gap program is one of at least a dozen such initiatives launched at colleges and universities since 2020. Donald Trump’s reelection, and divisions on issues such as Israel and Palestine and LGBTQ+ rights, could intensify the need for such campus programs, experts say. So too could the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban, said Natasha …

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2024年4月26日 · About one university or college per week so far this year, on average, has announced that it will close or merge. That’s up from a little more than two a month last year, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, or SHEEO.. So many colleges are folding that some students who moved from one to another have now found that …

2024年7月23日 · The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump — would reshape the American education system, early education through college, from start to finish.. The conservative Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind the sprawling blueprint, which is separate from the much less detailed …