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Opinion

In our opinion section, educators, experts, and students themselves discuss how to approach — and solve — the biggest problems in education. Want to write your own op-ed for Hechinger?

Students at Barnard Elementary School in Washington, D.C., one of the first schools to desegregate after Brown. (Library of Congress)
Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion

Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, how segregated are we?

Avatar photo by Alan Richard May 19, 2014March 30, 2020
Kenyatta Collins
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, Opinion, Student Voices: New Orleans perspectives, The South

New Orleans schools feel too much like prisons

by Kenyatta Collins May 15, 2014October 21, 2020
Thea Tucker
Posted inElementary to High School, Guidance Gap, Higher Education, Opinion, Student Voices: New Orleans perspectives

Why I wish my guidance counselors would stop talking so much about college

by Thea Tucker May 13, 2014April 8, 2021
Meg Mott
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Attack on campus sexual assaults must not destroy due process

by Meg Mott May 13, 2014April 8, 2021
Damia Williams, 17, is a student at New Orleans’Edna Karr High School.
Posted inElementary to High School, New Orleans, Opinion, Student Voices: New Orleans perspectives, The South

School desegregation matters, but should be left to personal choice, not public policy

by Damia Williams May 9, 2014October 21, 2020
Posted inHigher Education

New Orleans student says school leaders sometimes underestimate the value of career education

by Milan Miller May 8, 2014January 5, 2023
Elev8 dental clinic
Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion, Time to Learn

Will having a dentist at school keep disadvantaged students on track?

by Frank Mirabal May 8, 2014March 30, 2020
Al Shanker, organizer Paul Bradford, and the author, c. 1979
Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion

The new face of teacher unionism in New York City and beyond

David C. Bloomfield by David C. Bloomfield May 7, 2014March 30, 2020
Beverly Falk
Posted inElementary to High School, Opinion

Memo to Barack Obama: The folks who educate teachers would like to share some lessons on positive accountability with you

Beverly Falk by Beverly Falk May 1, 2014March 30, 2020
Christopher Caruso is Senior Vice President for ExpandED Schools at TASC (The After-School Corporation).
Posted inElementary to High School, Middle School, Opinion, Time to Learn

New York City’s chance to reinvent better middle schools

by Christopher Caruso April 28, 2014October 26, 2020

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