The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. More ...

Researcher: Parents want more programs, smaller class sizes; that requires more staff An updated longitudinal study on the K-12 teaching force shows a surprising trend over the past three decades.

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. I became a ...

When a student fails, it’s the teacher’s fault. When a child misbehaves – it’s the teacher’s fault. And when the economy fails, that too is considered to be the teacher’s fault. Is my latter statement ...

More than half of public school students are members of minority groups, but 83 percent of their teachers are white. Half of students are boys, while three-quarters of teachers are women. Students can ...

California has a far more racially and ethnically diverse teaching force than it had 20 years ago — and a more diverse one than is the case nationally. About about 1 in 3 of the state’s 305,000 ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — The teacher shortage in Colorado and across the nation is dire. Unfilled teaching positions increased 64 percent at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year, according to the ...