Members of the all-female medical staff at the Heal Veterinary Clinic in Watertown, Massachusetts. Women now outnumber men in veterinary school by four to one. Credit: Lucy Lu for The Hechinger Report ...

Aiming for greater gender balance, some colleges and universities have made efforts to admit and matriculate more men. Trump administration policies banning schools from considering gender and other ...

After the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision banning affirmative action in college admissions, the Trump administration suspected that colleges might covertly continue to give racial preferences. To police ...

If schools want to prepare young people for a future shaped by technology, they must act now to ensure that computer science is not a privilege for a few but a foundation for all. The time to begin is ...

While attending a gathering of Ivy League women years ago, I upset the audience by commenting that a real challenge for U.S. higher education was the declining participation of men in higher education ...

Between 2021 and 2023, the number of homeless infants and toddlers increased in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Experts worry that official statistics have not captured the true number.

She eventually encountered Pamm Shaw, who created one of the first early educator apprenticeship programs in the country for ...

Conservatives have long argued that unwed motherhood and single parenting are major drivers of poor student achievement. They contend that traditional two-parent families — ideally with a married ...

About two dozen second graders sat on the carpet at the front of Jacquelyn Anthony’s classroom, reviewing how to make tens. “Two needs eight!” the students yelled out together. “Six needs four!” This ...

On college campuses, many young people are learning to police one another through immigration-based targeting rather than learn alongside one another. Our schools are not prepared for this. Here’s ...