Rob Samuelson
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Digital Media Manager for brightbeam
Chicago, Illinois
Rob Samuelson is a Staff Writer at Education Post and Digital Media Manager for the brightbeam network.
RECENT POSTS
Posted Mar. 9, 2021
NASA’s Diana Trujillo Didn’t Just Put Perseverance on Mars. She’s Leading the Way for Underrepresented STEM Students.
NASA Flight Director Diana Trujillo put the Perseverance rover on Mars last month. Not only did it look super cool, but successfully…
Posted Jan. 27, 2021
AOC Is Tutoring a First Grader
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is highlighting an old, but never out of fashion, kind of public service: Tutoring kids. …
Posted Jan. 13, 2021
As Grown-Ups Argue Over Reopening Schools, Chicago’s Kids Lose
Chicago Public Schools students are back in school. Well, some of them are. It’s complicated, and getting messier by the…
Posted Nov. 19, 2020
5 Resources to Help Students Feel Seen This Transgender Awareness Week
No group of human beings is a monolith. Transgender students are no exception to that. This Transgender Awareness Week (and…
Posted Aug. 11, 2020
England’s Kids Are Getting an Army of Tutors While American Kids Wait
Students in the United Kingdom will have an extra resource as they head back to school: a $450 million national…
Posted July 15, 2020
Every School District Needs a Good Online Learning Platform. Right Now.
Everywhere you look, school districts are announcing plans to begin the fall with remote learning to continue slowing the spread…
Posted Dec. 3, 2019
How We Covered the Biggest Education News of the Decade
WHAT WE GOT RIGHT: Education Post is not a news organization. We focus on sharing the personal stories of the people who live and work within the nation’s education system and connecting them with others who have ideas about how to fix it. …
Posted Nov. 25, 2019
5 Most Read Posts of the Decade
WHAT WE GOT RIGHT: It’s the end of a year, decade, era. While Education Post hasn’t existed for the entirety of the 2010s, we’ve seen a lot of phenomenal conversations happen on our digital pages.…
Posted Nov. 20, 2019
Mayor Pete, If You Want to Be the Millennial Candidate, Support School Choice
Over the last 10 months or so, Democratic South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has gone from affable unknown to…
Posted July 22, 2019
I Asked Teachers for Their Strangest Summer Jobs and This Is What They Said
In my ideal world, summer would be a time for educators to relax and catch up with family and friends…
