Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.
The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.
For generations, we’ve been told that higher education is the surest path to a better life. But too many students don’t feel that way, and often with good reason: They are graduating with mountains of debt and few career prospects. Last summer, Congress wisely ushered in a new era of accountability in higher education when […] The post OPINION: Congress needs to face the ugly truth about cosmetology schools that don’t pay off appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
As young sisters growing up in Las Vegas, we didn’t have the language to define our fascination with science. For Angel, it was an early obsession with questions about health and fairness: Why do some people get sick and others don’t? Why do some communities struggle more than others? Why isn’t there always a solution? […] The post STUDENT VOICES: We were STEM-obsessed siblings as children. It shaped our pathway to Princeton and careers appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
This story was published by The 19th and reprinted with permission. Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in the country. The center, called The Little Apple, is a pilot program […] The post Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free child care center for city workers appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Artificial intelligence is often promoted as a way to make teachers more effective by helping them write lesson plans, generate classroom materials and provide feedback to students in seconds. But one of the first randomized trials testing AI in real classrooms found that it can also undermine learning. Students whose teachers were given access to […] The post Teachers save time with AI. Their students may pay the price appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Confidence in higher education is declining across the United States. Fewer Americans say a college degree is very important: A growing share believe the system is headed in the wrong direction, particularly when it comes to preparing students for employment. Not surprisingly, college enrollment has fallen in recent years. And nowhere are the stakes of […] The post OPINION: Poor Southern states have a brain drain problem. Public universities can and should be doing more to help appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
School purchasing can seem like an administrative backwater, far removed from the heart of teaching and learning. But the way schools buy products and services like educational software or tutoring programs can influence whether students actually learn, some policymakers argue. Instead of paying vendors simply for delivering these tools, school districts are experimenting with a […] The post Paying vendors for student results appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Listen to the whole series TRANSCRIPT Justice Stephen Breyer, a Harvard Law alum with judicial roots in the Boston area, including helping create this federal court. Bella Ramirez is a high-achieving student who hustles. As an undergrad at Boston University, she worked as a resident assistant on campus. Boston has very high costs of living, […] The post College Uncovered: Who should hold power over higher education? appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
How do kids learn how to kick a ball? If you think that’s a silly question — kids just kick things, don’t they? — you are thinking like me: Old school. Recently Ginny Yurich, host of the “1000 Hours Outside” podcast, sent me some pages from a pre-K curriculum she’d seen at a conference last […] The post OPINION: It’s time to stop teaching the fun out of childhood and let kids be kids. Give them a ball and get out of their way appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
When ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, educators quickly asked whether students would use artificial intelligence to cheat, learn or simply get through homework more efficiently. Evidence is beginning to point toward a troubling answer: Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest […] The post Faster solutions, lower test scores: How AI is eroding math skills appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Ask parent Janina Matuszeski what she has valued most about her twins’ experience in the Cambridge Public Schools to this point, and she is quick to cite the diversity and teacher quality. If there is one area in which the schools have performed less well in serving her children, who just completed […] The post Can this city succeed in having all eighth graders take algebra where others have failed? appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
As a former teacher and now school leader, I know nothing is worse than missing the mark with your students. It is both disillusioning and frustrating to know that you are failing to provide them with the necessary tools to drive their own learning. It was this realization that convinced me that something needed to […] The post PRINCIPAL VOICE: Our off-track high school students weren’t terribly interested in school until we dug into hands-on learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Pssst — wanna buy a college campus? There’s a sudden market in abandoned campuses, an outgrowth of the accelerating rate of colleges closing in the face of falling enrollment, rising debt and other problems. More than 440 of the nation’s private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities are now at risk, based on enrollment trends, debt […] The post Pace of college closings picks up, with more projected appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
When I was an assistant principal in Chicago, I would post a job opening for a physics teacher and get 20 applications. A call for an English teacher might yield 150. That was the late 1990s. By the time I left the district, the same postings were lucky to bring in one or two qualified […] The post OPINION: America’s teacher shortage is worse than you think. But there’s a way to fix it appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — It was the middle of a writing lesson in Gabrielle Grace’s first grade class at Sand Creek Elementary in suburban Denver, and students were furiously jotting down details about their summer plans, the first step in composing a paragraph on the topic. Except for 6-year-old Dean, who was already done. “This […] The post The next literacy challenge: Teaching students how to write appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
LOVELAND, Colo. — Just beyond the front doors of Namaqua Elementary School, past a banner that reads “attendance matters — every school day counts,” a stuffed wildcat in sunglasses sits in the lobby, observing the comings and goings of students. The school mascot is called Wyatt, and the students are told that he monitors attendance. […] The post Why are so many kindergartners chronically absent? appeared first on The Hechinger Report .
Mikiah Roberson expected to receive her federal $6,700 student loan disbursement sometime between May 27 and June 3, just in time to make her rent and car payments. Instead, June 3 came and went. Days, weeks and finally over a month passed. Roberson, a graduate student in University of Maryland Global Campus’s digital forensics and […] The post Colleges are scrambling to figure out new student loan rules. Students are paying the price appeared first on The Hechinger Report .