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You may have wondered about our name, The Hechinger Report.

The late Fred M. Hechinger was a legendary education editor and columnist for The New York Times, the author of several books and a vigorous advocate for public education. He was born in Germany in 1920 and came to the U.S. in 1936, where he finished high school and graduated from the City College of New York.

In his final column for The New York Times in 1990, Fred shared wisdom that remains relevant today:

The best news always came from classrooms where children learned and enjoyed it: 6-year-olds huddled in “editorial conference” before writing their stories; a high school student, who had never read a book for pleasure, discovering “Catcher in the Rye” and asking if there were more books for him to take home.

But after leaving such good news classrooms, I would think about hundreds of thousands of youngsters who are never allowed to taste such pleasures. Should I have ignored the bad news – about a system that deprives the many of joy reserved for the few?

I tried to celebrate the islands of excellence, but I could not overlook the sea of neglect and apathy that threatened to wash over them.

We work hard to honor Fred’s legacy in everything we do at The Hechinger Report. But we can’t do it without your help.

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Liz Willen
Editor in Chief

P.S. Fun fact: Our executive editor, Lawrie Mifflin, worked with Fred Hechinger at The New York Times. And Fred’s two sons, John and Paul, carry on their father's legacy - both as journalists and as advisors to The Hechinger Report.

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