Founded in 1996, the Hechinger Report is an independent, nonprofit newsroom headquartered in New York City. It covers inequality and innovation in education, with topic areas spread across early childhood, K-12, and higher education.

Hechinger en Español offers Spanish translations of marquee Hechinger Report articles.

Regarding higher education, the Hechinger Report provides several tools aimed directly at helping college students:

• Tuition tracker that shows the difference between an institution's sticker price and actual cost of attendance
• College Welcome Guide
• Database of colleges that offer childcare to enrolled students.
• Produces newsletter focused on higher education news.

The Hechinger Report is named after Fred M. Hechinger, who was education editor of The New York Times, an author of several books, and a public education advocate.

Hechinger's funding is based on support from nearly 20 foundations that award grants to support a substantial amount of the newsroom's functions.

The newsroom partners with hundreds of news organizations for reporting projects. These include the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, NPR, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, Time Magazine, Slate, Vanity Fair, the Nation, McClatchy, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Resources

Hechinger Report. (n.d.). About. https://hechingerreport.org/about/

Hechinger Report. (n.d.). Hechinger en Español. https://hechingerreport.org/hechinger-en-espanol/

Hechinger Report. (n.d.). Our partners. https://hechingerreport.org/partners/

Hechinger Report. (n.d.). Our supporters. https://hechingerreport.org/supporters/

Hechinger Report. (n.d.). The Hechinger Report. https://hechingerreport.org/