America’s Class Struggle: Eric Hanushek on Learning Declines and Hope for Revitalizing Education

05/12/2025 58 min Episodio 469
America’s Class Struggle: Eric Hanushek on Learning Declines and Hope for Revitalizing Education

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If you think America’s schools fell into decline solely as a consequence of 2020’s pandemic and a year of alternate instruction models, guess again.
Eric Hanushek, the Hoover Institution’s Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow and a leading scholar on the economics of education, discusses misperceptions in the Covid-education debate (learning and achievement were in decline years before the pandemic struck), why education reform remains elusive despite decades of talk and treasure, a few sleeper concerns (long-term absenteeism), lessons to be learned from learning and teaching innovations in Dallas and Mississippi, plus the future impact of learning loss on earning power and America’s GDP.

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