 Dear reader,
Greetings from Austin, Texas, where after a two-year pandemic hiatus, conversations about improving education are finally back in person at SXSW EDU. I’m thrilled The Hechinger Report can be part of it, because we’ve long believed that if we aren’t talking (and reporting) on our country’s education crisis, no one will bother coming up with solutions. After many years of attending the event, I’ve learned to navigate an agenda filled with hidden gems, along with way too much jargon; can we please stop “disrupting” education and worrying about educating the “whole child?” Yet there are many worthy speakers and sessions on huge topics our team has been tackling, including early childhood education and the college enrollment crisis, one that could potentially be eased by hiring “retention specialists,” as our higher education editor Jon Marcus explains this week.
When I’m not moderating or attending panels, I hope to see many of the people we’ve been interviewing over the years in person this week. So please come say hello, sign up for our newsletters and keep the conversation and the solutions coming long after this conference is over.
Liz Willen, Editor
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