The Hechinger Report » Meredith Kolodner

The April 18 protests at Columbia University over the war in Gaza and Columbia’s investment in weapons manufacturers and companies doing business in Israel led to more than 100 arrests, and spa...

https://hechingerreport.org/qa-suspended-barnard-students-share-experiences-of-suspension-and-eviction-during-columbia-protests/

TOLEDO, Ohio – The sound of his teacher smacking his desk jolted Marquan into consciousness, and his head jerked up. “Wake up,” his teacher said. Marquan hadn’t slept much the night befor...

https://hechingerreport.org/disobedience-discipline-and-racial-disparity/

A Rhode Island student smashed a ketchup packet with his fist, splattering an administrator. Another ripped up his school work. The district called it “destruction of school property.” A Wash...

https://hechingerreport.org/vague-school-rules-at-the-root-of-millions-of-student-suspensions/

New York state lawmakers will unveil legislation on Tuesday that would eliminate enormous property tax breaks for Columbia University and New York University, which have expanded to become among ...

https://hechingerreport.org/columbia-and-n-y-u-would-lose-327-million-in-tax-breaks-under-proposal/

SALISBURY, Md. — Three times a week, on average, a police car pulls up to a school in Wicomico County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. A student is brought out, handcuffed and placed inside for t...

https://hechingerreport.org/widely-used-and-widely-hidden-the-district-where-kids-as-young-as-5-are-sent-to-psychiatric-hospitals-more-than-three-times-per-week/

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher educ...

https://hechingerreport.org/holding-transcripts-hostage-may-get-a-lot-harder-thanks-to-new-federal-rules/

As Columbia University puts the last touches on its brand-new campus in Harlem, it has reached a milestone: The university is now the largest private landowner in New York City. In a city where l...

https://hechingerreport.org/nycs-biggest-landlord-columbia-university-pays-no-property-taxes-even-as-it-enrolls-fewer-and-fewer-city-students/

Millions of student loan borrowers have been waiting to find out whether the Biden Administration’s plan to forgive some federal student debt will provide them with financial relief. On Friday,...

https://hechingerreport.org/supreme-court-decides-the-fate-of-millions-of-student-loan-borrowers/

In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will rule about whether colleges can consider race in admissions decisions, deciding two cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fai...

https://hechingerreport.org/many-flagship-universities-dont-reflect-their-states-black-or-latino-high-school-graduates/

Last month, when more than 200,000 students who had been victims of misconduct by their colleges began getting the news that their federal student loans were cancelled, Amanda Luciano felt a sens...

https://hechingerreport.org/in-debt-81000-to-a-college-that-defrauded-its-students/