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Some experts say it’s time we started thinking of creativity as a necessary skill – not just a trait – […]

As the year 2010 comes to a close we look back at the biggest stories in education with the Hechinger […]

The physical layout of classrooms hasn’t varied much since the days of the one-room schoolhouse. Yet so much about our […]

Schools are widely criticized for limiting what and how they teach so that students score higher on standardized tests. Why […]

Charter schools have been touted as a way to help save America’s struggling public education system. But recent studies and […]

A recent study by the Century Foundation found that poor children do better when they go to school with wealthier […]

Education reformers are calling for big changes in how teachers are trained and evaluated. In this discussion program, teachers, administrators, […]

Teachers matter. A lot. Studies show that students with the best teachers learn three times as much as students with […]

Teachers matter. A lot. Studies show that students with the best teachers learn three times as much as students with the worst teachers. Researchers say the achievement gap between poor children and their higher-income peers could disappear if poor kids got better teachers.

Bernice Johnson Reagon – singer, scholar, composer, activist and oral historian – was a field secretary for SNCC, the Student […]