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Do black students really need college to get high paying jobs?
Photo of Jonathan Johnson, founder of Rooted School NEW ORLEANS – The path from poverty to the middle class doesn’t have to go through college. Jonathan Johnson, a former teacher in New Orleans,...
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Can this rural high school ‘drop the drama’?
Mia Clough, an 11th-grader, shares ideas for a code of conduct during the Drop the Drama class at Pittsfield Middle High School. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras PITTSFIELD, N.H. — “I literally hate you. You’re a...
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Obama’s national spotlight on young black and brown men: Has it improved...
Jason Board, 19, pictured in his east side Detroit neighborhood where he grew up. Board works at Detroit Manufacturing System and got his job through the Brothers Keepers program. Photo: Diane Weiss...
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OPINION: Is Lego’s new space series missing a teachable moment?
Lego’s planned Women of NASA set to feature Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, Katherine Johnson, Margaret Hamilton, and Nancy Grace Roman. Photo: Maia Weinstock As a child of the 1980s, much of my elementary...
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Coding outside the lines: CoderDojos get kids psyched about programming by...
Skye Morishita working on the robot she programmed at a recent CoderDojo session in Boston. Photo: Chris Berdik On a recent Saturday, a squad of Lego robots fitted with markers limped, hopped and spun...
View ArticleUnlike the students they oversee, most college presidents are white and male
Despite a growing demand for more diversity in higher education, more than 70 percent of college presidents are men, and 80 percent are white, according to a new report. The Topic: Female and nonwhite...
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African-American boys who tell better stories as preschoolers may learn to...
In this file photo, a Mississippi kindergarten student thinks about how to correct a sentence written on the white board during class Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Helping African-American...
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Number of single moms in college doubled in 12 years, so why aren’t they...
A single mother holds her son while she waits to receive her diploma during her graduation ceremony from college. The number of single mothers in college more than doubled between 2000 and 2012, but a...
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Betsy DeVos, our educational system helps produce Harvey Weinsteins and we...
A 2015 file photo of movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual harassment allegations. A leading Hollywood studio has launched an inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment...
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It was only a matter of time before the #MeToo movement rocked schools
A sign on the door of a KIPP Charter school in the Bronx. KIPP’s co-founder, Mike Feinberg, was recently fired due to allegations of sexual abuse. Photo by Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images The...
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Dress codes can’t cover for bad teaching
Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. Photo: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images “In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a...
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How to help children overcome math anxiety
Sian Beilock Courtesy of Barnard College You stare at the math test, pencil frozen. You know the answer to this problem. You know you know the answer to this problem. Yet, somehow, the answer doesn’t...
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Where are all the women apprentices?
Zurich Insurance is one of a growing number of companies that have started apprenticeships in white-collar professions. While these companies often point to diversity as a goal of the programs, the...
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Girls-only trade classes are spreading — and upending stereotypes
Caitlin Pierce, 17, uses a power saw during a construction class at Abraxas Continuation High School, in Poway, California. Photo: Brenda Iasevoli for The Hechinger Report High school auto mechanics...
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Brett Kavanaugh’s character cannot be found in his résumé
Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in...
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Women’s History Month should have a place for teachers
Mary McLeod Bethune with a group of students after resigning as President of Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1943. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images Given that teachers...
View ArticleHow to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads
Makenzie, Mariah and Makayla are triplets who, by the age of 13, have created websites, programmed a handheld Raspberry Pi computer and given orders to a small, white robot called Sphero. The three...
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Two percent of teachers are black men. A city is trying to recruit more.
Nathaniel Albert supports a student at the beat-making station in teacher Alex Owens’ fifth-grade Innovation class at New Orleans’ Bricolage Academy. Photo: Jacob Carroll for the Hechinger Report Two...
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In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one
The bar at the University of Iceland, a campus where women outnumber men by two to one. Photo: Heiða Helgadóttir for The Hechinger Report REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Happy hour at the bar at the University...
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Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students
A Stanford University study finds that dropout rates were lower in Oakland, California, high schools that offered a special class for black students called the Manhood Development Program. A 10th...
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