Summer/Fall 2008 Issue of The Hechinger Report

Published September 2008

• New Fellowship announced for journalists to pursue projects on covering teaching
• Second class of Community College Fellows attends week-long Seminar
• Thoughts on switching careers from a journalist who became a teacher
• New "Hechinger Guide to Education Research for Journalists" published

Math Matters: A Journalist's Guide

Published October 2009

For all that is known about the problems plaguing American math education – as well as how to fix them – math teaching remains stubbornly fixed in place. Scholars of math education say that classes today would seem familiar to Americans who finished school decades ago. But today’s graduates enter an adult world where the price they’ll pay for math deficiencies is far greater than that paid by their parents. Meanwhile, the cost to the nation is steep and growing steeper still. This Guide seeks to clarify what many of the issues are and what efforts are currently underway to address them.