Economics Education Policy Teaching 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
For decades, education policy has lurched from one test score panic to the next, diverting resources from what we know matters building students socioemotional skills, fostering strong relationships with teachers and peers and supporting enriched home environments that drive long-term success.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Teaching is inherently activist.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Why hasn’t innovation in teaching and learning cascaded to underserved populations? The focus of our effort— Inclusive Innovation —is supported by research summarized in the report, Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth from Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 5, 2021
But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. It is a very different thing to ask, “What do we want every child to achieve?”
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 30, 2018
New ways of teaching and learning are needed to make sure students prove they’ve mastered topics before earning a diploma, they say. No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it.
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