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Teacher Preparation

Teacher training programs are facing profound challenges. Enrollment in traditional programs is down while alternative routes to the classroom proliferate. Amidst a growing call for raising the quality of the U.S. teaching force, The Hechinger Report is examining whether teachers are being adequately prepared.

pay teachers more
Posted inOpinion

After coronavirus subsides, we must pay teachers more

Avatar photo by Andre Perry March 30, 2020October 21, 2020
African American teachers
Posted inNews

Two percent of teachers are black men. A city is trying to recruit more.

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl September 10, 2019October 21, 2020
Posted inNews

New Orleans loses teachers at double the rate of other cities like it

Avatar photo by Katy Reckdahl September 9, 2019October 21, 2020
Posted inNews

TEACHER VOICE: Looking back on my first year of school

Avatar photo by Rhea May July 31, 2019December 7, 2021
Posted inNews

OPINION: The difficult discussions about gun violence that we can’t afford not to have

Jennifer Rich by Jennifer Rich May 9, 2019March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

In professional development for online teachers, highlighting failure led the way to success

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson April 18, 2019March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

TEACHER VOICE: Is the cost of student-teaching worth it?

Avatar photo by Devin Evans February 4, 2019December 7, 2021
Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School.
Posted inElementary to High School

Switching sides in the teacher wars

Amadou Diallo is a journalist, playwright and photographer whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wirecutter, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America and The Christian Science Monitor. He has been a regular contributor to The Hechinger Report since 2017. A former musician and composer, he is a graduate of New York University and is always happy to weigh in on just which of Miles Davis’ classic quintets was the best. by Amadou Diallo February 3, 2019March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: Hometown teachers more likely to ‘stay in school’

Eric DeSobe by Eric DeSobe December 13, 2018March 30, 2020
New York City Schools Chancellor Harold Levy talks on the phone in his office in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, May 11, 2000. Levy, head of the country's largest school system, is pushing music and poetry in a system plagued with rats, guns and crumbling school buildings. "Art and music are the hook by which we get the attention of students who might otherwise drift away," Levy said.
Posted inColumnists

Remembering former NYC Schools Chancellor Harold Levy: A champion for children and a real mensch

Avatar photo by Liz Willen November 29, 2018March 30, 2020

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