The Education Show

<p>According to Gintautas “Gin” Dumcius, journalism’s current era features a lot of different ways for folks to get the news — as well as a lot of dubious information. </p><p>The newsletter he launched and now runs...

<p>If you hadn’t seen or heard much of USC education professor Morgan Polikoff lately, you’re not alone. He’s off Twitter (for now) and on sabbatical. </p><p>But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have anything to say, and a...

<p>With a dozen years on the beat under his belt, Cory Turner is one of the most experienced national education reporters out there, and in this new interview he’s generous enough to share his thoughts about covering...

<p>Stefan Merrill Block started writing “Homeschooled” — a memoir of the five years he spent at home after his mother pulled him out of school — as a healing exercise after his mother’s death. He thought it might...

<p>Interviewed during last her few days on the job, the Chronicle’s Emma Pettit talks about the many parallels between the critique of higher education that’s been her beat these past two years and the critique of...

<p>A self-described angry mom who ran for office and sends her kids to NYC public schools, Danyela Souza Egorov is now a fellow at the Manhattan Institute whose work often appears in City Journal. </p><p>“I was one of...

<p>Getting rid of Chromebooks isn’t McPherson Middle School principal Inge Esping’s first time helping her school reconsider well-intended but ultimately unhelpful education technology — and based on this new...

<p>If you know the name Steven Waldman, it’s probably because of his involvement in helping create Report for America, the nearly decade-old nonprofit endeavor to match ambitious journalists with growing newsrooms that...

<p>Alan Gottlieb has deep, deep roots in education journalism, having founded or co-founded several education news outlets over the years: Education News Colorado, Chalkbeat, and now Boardhawk. </p><p>In this new...

<p>You may recall news coming out last month that longtime education journalist Kavitha Cardoza had won a $100,000 journalism award from the Heising-Simons Foundation. </p><p>But Cardoza wasn’t the only winner. The...

<p>Hard to believe, but it was just a week ago when the Baltimore Banner published Everyone has seen Baltimore’s missing boy. So why can’t authorities find him?, a deep and vivid investigative story that includes U.S...

<p>It won’t take long for you to get hooked on Adults in the Room, a new eight-episode series from KUOW Seattle Public Radio about a charismatic high school teacher named Tom Hudson and the two student journalists whose...

<p>If the name James Traub sound familiar to you, there’s a reason for that. </p><p>A prolific author of several books including CITY ON A HILL, Traub has also written several memorable education-focused magazine...

<p>I hadn’t seen Christine Pitts’ name in a while when I came across her recent Oregon Journalism Project (OJP) interview — part of an interesting new effort to rebuild accountability-oriented journalism in the state...

<p>One of the hardest things to do on the education beat is to cover private school choice in a way that isn’t narrow-minded, superficial, or simplistic. </p><p>At Education Week, that difficult job has fallen to...