Susan Makowski, director of admissions at Rider University, at a college fair she helps organize in New Jersey. “A cliff is coming,” Makowski says. The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit ...

Ndilei Lulukay was directly admitted to about a dozen colleges and universities, taking stress out of the application process. Credit: Kirk Carapezza The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit ...

Across the country, education leaders are being forced to make some tough decisions — to choose between defending core values such as equity and historical truth, or yielding to political coercion in ...