Fred M. Hechinger

Who is Fred M. Hechinger?

Fred M. Hechinger was an education editor at The New York Times from 1959 to 1990.

He came to the U.S. in 1936. He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School, in 1937. He completed his bachelor’s degree at City College of New York. He served in the U.S. Army, during World War II. He was a foreign correspondent, for the Overseas News Agency. He was an education writer for The Times of London, The New York Herald Tribune, The Washington Post and Harper's. In 1950, he became education editor at The Herald Tribune.

He was a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, and Senior Advisor to the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

He married Grace Bernstein; they had two sons, Paul D. Hechinger, John E. Hechinger.