EWA's blog about education issues and topics from a journalist's perspective. The Educated Reporter is anchored by Emily Richmond with contributions from EWA staff and guests.
EWA’s blog about education issues and topics from a journalist’s
perspective. The Educated Reporter is anchored by Emily Richmond with contributions
from EWA staff and guests.
Maybe if the Washington Post didn’t have to pay Sally Quinn
to advise people to avoid wearing red and green to Jewish
people’s houses, they wouldn’t have to, say, CLOSE THEIR
PHENOMENAL NATIONAL BUREAUS. Just sayin’.
Justin Pope at the Associated Press has been doing terrific
work on for-profit colleges. On the face of it, it looks like
they have an incentive to take lots of low-income students (and
their associated aid) even if they have little chance of
succeeding. Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on
your perspective.
N.C. Aizenman has a
terrific piece in today’s Washington Post about two girls who
became teen mothers, on purpose. It’s part of a series on young,
second-generation Latinos.
Major-league kudos to Michael Miner at the Chicago Reader,
who writes about the culture of fear in that city’s school
system that shuts out reporters—and, by virtue, the public.
Reporters around the country tell me it has gotten worse for
them, nowhere moreso than in districts led by big-shot reformers.
You looked! Really, do I need any more title than that?
The recent
MTV/Associated Press poll on teens and technology asked
people ages 14 to 24 a very specific question: whether somebody
had ever sent them, on their phone or computer, naked pictures of
themselves. Eighteen percent of respondents said that had
happened. I would say this is not specifically “sexting,” which
semantically would refer to phones only.
Yesterday, Mary Ann Zehr of Education Week
pleaded for schools to provide journalists more access.
And I taped an interview with Mike
Petrilli to be podcast on Education Next about the state of
education journalism. Now, enough navel-gazing! Time to think
about Chrismukkah presents!
I love what Geoffrey Canada is doing with the Harlem
Children’s Zone: addressing simultaneously the school factors and
non-school factors that so deeply disadvantage poor, inner-city
children. (Yes, it doesn’t have to be—it cannot be—either/or.)
But just as much as I love the project, I hate the misuse of
statistics. Thanks to Aaron Pallas at GothamSchools for
calling out an overstatement of the HCZ schools’ success.
Everybody and their
mother has been bemoaning the decline of education
journalism, with their eye trained on the journalists themselves.
(Almost always the reporters. But of course my natural instinct
leads elsewhere: blame editors! Reporters know national context
is important; they are dying to cover the beat with breadth and
depth. You think they are begging to cover Obama’s speech or
a lunchroom brawl?) Anyway, we get it.
This blog is not—I repeat, not—a place to air my personal
gripes. But would someone please write a story about how
practically no pediatricians in the D.C. area (and probably
elsewhere) who take insurance are also taking new patients?
Unless they are newborns, which I have on good authority is a
totally arbitrary distinction. After all, if you are not adding
patients because you are busy, why do you make an exception for
the patients who need to see you every month?
Last month I read Tom Toch’s commentary
and the related Education Sector report
on the scale-up problems of charter management organizations.
Little did I know until I read Debra Viadero’s
Ed Week piece today: drama! It is no secret that the guys at
the top of Ed Sector love them some charters.
I usually am not big on think tank panel discussions, but today’s
Brookings event on the purported
decline of education journalism could not have been more in
my wheelhouse. To have missed it would have been like Lindsay
Lohan telling Tara Reid that no, thank you, she doesn’t feel like
joining her for an absinthe binge in her hotel room.
Nearly a decade ago, only a few months into George W. Bush’s
first term as president, Nicholas Lemann wrote a really
interesting
New Yorker piece about how No Child Left Behind evolved
and the key players behind it. He focused especially on
mastermind Sandy Kress, whom we would learn a lot more about in
the Texas
Observer years later.
Hard to feel bad for a paper when it makes choices like this.
Maybe if the Washington Post didn’t have to pay Sally Quinn to advise people to avoid wearing red and green to Jewish people’s houses, they wouldn’t have to, say, CLOSE THEIR PHENOMENAL NATIONAL BUREAUS. Just sayin’.
ISO: More reporting on for-profit colleges.
Justin Pope at the Associated Press has been doing terrific work on for-profit colleges. On the face of it, it looks like they have an incentive to take lots of low-income students (and their associated aid) even if they have little chance of succeeding. Which may or may not be a good thing, depending on your perspective.
I love this piece on teen moms.
N.C. Aizenman has a terrific piece in today’s Washington Post about two girls who became teen mothers, on purpose. It’s part of a series on young, second-generation Latinos.
Which part of “PUBLIC schools” don’t you understand?
Major-league kudos to Michael Miner at the Chicago Reader, who writes about the culture of fear in that city’s school system that shuts out reporters—and, by virtue, the public. Reporters around the country tell me it has gotten worse for them, nowhere moreso than in districts led by big-shot reformers.
Sexting.
You looked! Really, do I need any more title than that?
The recent MTV/Associated Press poll on teens and technology asked people ages 14 to 24 a very specific question: whether somebody had ever sent them, on their phone or computer, naked pictures of themselves. Eighteen percent of respondents said that had happened. I would say this is not specifically “sexting,” which semantically would refer to phones only.
The gift to give journalists this year.
Yesterday, Mary Ann Zehr of Education Week pleaded for schools to provide journalists more access. And I taped an interview with Mike Petrilli to be podcast on Education Next about the state of education journalism. Now, enough navel-gazing! Time to think about Chrismukkah presents!
The gap ain’t quite closed—but that sounded good.
I love what Geoffrey Canada is doing with the Harlem Children’s Zone: addressing simultaneously the school factors and non-school factors that so deeply disadvantage poor, inner-city children. (Yes, it doesn’t have to be—it cannot be—either/or.) But just as much as I love the project, I hate the misuse of statistics. Thanks to Aaron Pallas at GothamSchools for calling out an overstatement of the HCZ schools’ success.
Everything that’s wrong with us, Part Two.
Everybody and their mother has been bemoaning the decline of education journalism, with their eye trained on the journalists themselves. (Almost always the reporters. But of course my natural instinct leads elsewhere: blame editors! Reporters know national context is important; they are dying to cover the beat with breadth and depth. You think they are begging to cover Obama’s speech or a lunchroom brawl?) Anyway, we get it.
Story idea alert: children’s health.
This blog is not—I repeat, not—a place to air my personal gripes. But would someone please write a story about how practically no pediatricians in the D.C. area (and probably elsewhere) who take insurance are also taking new patients? Unless they are newborns, which I have on good authority is a totally arbitrary distinction. After all, if you are not adding patients because you are busy, why do you make an exception for the patients who need to see you every month?
I am totally willing to be your lead anecdote.
Behind a kerfuffle, important questions.
Last month I read Tom Toch’s commentary and the related Education Sector report on the scale-up problems of charter management organizations. Little did I know until I read Debra Viadero’s Ed Week piece today: drama! It is no secret that the guys at the top of Ed Sector love them some charters.
Everything that’s wrong with us, Part One.
I usually am not big on think tank panel discussions, but today’s Brookings event on the purported decline of education journalism could not have been more in my wheelhouse. To have missed it would have been like Lindsay Lohan telling Tara Reid that no, thank you, she doesn’t feel like joining her for an absinthe binge in her hotel room.
ISO an article that fills in the bubbles—I mean blanks.
Nearly a decade ago, only a few months into George W. Bush’s first term as president, Nicholas Lemann wrote a really interesting New Yorker piece about how No Child Left Behind evolved and the key players behind it. He focused especially on mastermind Sandy Kress, whom we would learn a lot more about in the Texas Observer years later.