This story also appeared in NBC News For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion […]
Barbara Kantrowitz
Barbara Kantrowitz was an editor at The Hechinger Report from 2011 to 2026. She edited Jill Barshay’s Proof Points column on education research as well as other stories by staffers and freelancers. She also taught education reporting at Columbia Journalism School and served as assistant director of the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship.
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