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OPINION: Students need more educational choices after high school

The Hechinger Report

Public trust in higher education has reached a historic low. However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Education leaders have long called for expanded postsecondary pathways. College isn’t for everyone.

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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

The Hechinger Report

The roots of this issue go back to the historic 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision, which declared that laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white students were unconstitutional. Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

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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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

history has resulted in persistent unequal access to opportunity. Some leaders have responded by endorsing policies that attempt to reduce the impacts of these “implicit” biases. Many leaders in education have similarly called for action to address the biases of those working in schools across the country.

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Joshua Dunn, Teachers Discuss Judiciary’s Involvement in Education

Teaching American History

Good teachers respond to the needs of the students they seek to educate. Since the middle of the twentieth century, “seemingly no aspect of education policy has been too insignificant to escape judicial oversight,” writes Professor Joshua Dunn, in a 2008 essay he coauthored with Martin R.

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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Education has become a major battleground for the attempted anti-racist paradigm shift of diversity, equity and inclusion work; mirroring society, this work remains stuck in a cycle of advancement and retaliation. Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge.

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

What if our hope that public education can erase inequality is in vain? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. But what if he’s right?

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