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The national nonprofit newsroom reporting on innovation & inequality in education. 📨 Newsletters: hechingerreport.org/newsletters

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The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport.org · 12/05/2025

Put simply, a lot of elementary school educators hate the prospect of teaching math, even when the math concepts are beginner level. Listen to @arielgilreath.bsky.social discuss her reporting on teacher math anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport.org · 06/05/2025

If the flurry of changes in New Zealand manages to move the needle on math achievement, its success is likely to reverberate far beyond its borders. Listen to our deputy managing editor, @casamuels.bsky.social, discuss her reporting on math instruction in New Zealand.

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The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport.org · 10/12/2024

Child care inspection reports, from four states that are considering or have passed deregulation legislation, show that child care teachers were struggling even before deregulation efforts began. @jackiemader.bsky.social hechingerreport.org/investigatin...

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The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport.org · 27/11/2024

The Hechinger Report answered some of the questions raised by the possible dismantling of the Education Department, consulting experts and advocates on student loans, special education, financial aid, school lunch and beyond. Read more: hechingerreport.org/what-might-h...

What might happen if the Education Department were closed?

The Trump administration has promised big changes, but the president can’t make them alone.

What would happen to federal early education programs?

The most well-known and biggest federal early childhood programs, Head Start and the Child Care Development Block Grant, are not a part of the Education Department — they’re administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. So they would not be directly affected by an Education Department shutdown.

But Education does oversee and pay for some smaller early learning programs and early childhood research.

Closing the Department of Education would not undo it. Title I — a program established in 1965 that provides money to schools with large numbers of low-income students — is part of federal law. If the Education Department were to be eliminated, the most likely scenario is that Title I money would flow through another federal agency. Major cuts to the program are unlikely.

Do I have to worry about special education?

There would be bureaucratic upheaval if another agency took on oversight of education of students with disabilities, but the special education law itself, and the money allotted to it, would not change without an act of Congress.

The law now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was passed in 1975, four years before the Education Department was formed. At that time, it was administered by the department of Health, Education and Welfare (now known as the Health and Human Services department).

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The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport.org · 19/11/2024

The median acceptance rate at bachelor’s degree-granting universities and colleges was 7.6 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012.

A random selection of colleges and universities and their acceptance rates in 2022 versus 2012.

Adelphi University had an acceptance rate of 66 percent for the 2012-2013 school year and 73 percent for 2022-23. Brigham Young had an acceptance rate of 55 percent for 2012-13 and 67 percent for 2022-23. CUNY Baruch had an acceptance rate of 22 percent for 2012-13 and 50 percent for 2022-23.

A random selection of colleges and universities and their acceptance rates in 2022 versus 2012.

Marquette University had an acceptance rate of 55 percent for the 2012-2013 school year and 87 percent for 2022-23. Mississippi State University had an acceptance rate of 62 percent for 2012-13 and 75 percent for 2022-23. Pepperdine University had an acceptance rate of 38 percent for 2012-13 and 48 percent for 2022-23.

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The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport.org · 30/08/2023

An analysis of nationwide school closures and restructuring trends over the past 30 years found that schools with a higher percentage of students of color were more likely to close than those with more white students. hechingerreport.org/a-school-clo...

Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., on Friday evening, July 28, 2023. Credit: Christiana Botic for The Hechinger Report

Ce’Vanne Ursin, 12, right, and her sister CanyonSunday Ursin, 8, in front of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., on Sunday evening, July 23, 2023. Credit: Christiana Botic for The Hechinger Report

Angie Robertson outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., on Friday evening, July 28, 2023. Credit: Christiana Botic for The Hechinger Report

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