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I’m Concerned But Not Convinced by the NPR-Illinois Story on the Noble Charter Schools
I’m a fan of the Noble Charter School Network in Chicago because parents like the schools, they get good results for low-income kids and they…
Rapper Vic Mensa Gets Real About Being Branded ‘Black’ and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Vic Mensa wants to be the voice of Chicago. That means speaking out against gun violence, the drug trade and other issues that have found…
Coffee Break: Journalist Kavitha Cardoza on Slipping in the Wonk, Her ‘Mishmash’ Background and ‘Breaking Ground’
After covering education for eight years in the nation’s capital for NPR-affiliate WAMU, Kavitha Cardoza joins Education Week on Aug. 1, as a part of…
Everything This NPR Podcast Got Wrong About School Closings
I’m a podcast junkie, and listen to them all the time—in the car, on the train, on a jog, walking my dog. And one of…
We Can’t Even Write a Complete Sentence and Here’s Why
One of my favorite articles makes me laugh and cringe. What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence describes the plight of top companies spending billions of…
Look, I’m Not the Enemy But Investing in Education Without Accountability Just Doesn’t Work
My recent visit to the Network for Public Education’s annual conference in North Carolina has yielded much fruit. In addition to an extended blog conversation…
Are District Schools Entitled to Teach Other People’s Children?
On April 1, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers walked out on their jobs six weeks ahead of the official date by which they could call…
Just How White Is Education Journalism? Turns Out, Pretty White
In light of #OscarsSoWhite, I asked around a few education newsrooms to find out how things were going on the racial diversity front. What seems clear from these initial anecdotal results is that the education beat may be lagging behind in the industry-wide push to diversify editors and reporters, with standalone nonprofit education outlets incurring additional challenges beyond hiring and retention. Before reporting the initial…
Was There Too Much Coverage of Friedrichs? @SchoolLawBlog Says No
Mark Walsh is the only journalist that I know of who focuses on education-related Supreme Court cases, though his writing at EdWeek (@SchoolLawBlog) and on SCOTUSblog. So it was great to get Walsh’s take on last week’s big Supreme Court case and on media coverage of school law cases in general. https://twitter.com/SchoolLawBlog/status/686635083059429376 (See my previous post on this: How to Be Smart Supreme Court Coverage…
The Great Thanksgiving Listen: Arne Duncan Reunites with Former Student
Anya Kamenetz of NPR shares the conversation from the reunion of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan with a former student from over twenty five years ago during his years working for Chicago Public Schools. Duncan participated in a Mentorship Program and Lwanda Duncan (no relation) was one of his mentees. Their conversation was part of a StoryCorps project called the Great Thanksgiving Listen. I can remember when I finished Robert Morris…
