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.
I beg you: Please don’t write another story this fat-envelope
season about a senior’s difficult decision between Penn and
Columbia and Duke and Berkeley and Cornell. Seriously. Enough
already.
More than half of Denver Public Schools students have to take at
least one remedial class when they hit college, Jeremy Meyer of
the Denver Post reports. I
am sure that is a pretty typical stat, one worth lots of
exploration. This is a good story, or stories, for both higher ed
and K-12 reporters.
Reporters frequently query EWA searching for expert opinions on
pushing (I mean, encouraging!) AP classes for all students. I
think the New York Times
did a good job yesterday of rounding up the prevailing
schools of thought.
A lot of people ask me to edit their resumes and cover letters.
(Sure, send me yours!) I am no career counseling expert, but two
things stand out to me:
1. Don’t use your resume to get into all sorts of jazzy detail
about the specific attributes you bring to your work. That’s what
the cover letter is for.
2. Of COURSE your references are available upon request. Can
anyone give me one reason to include that line on a resume? It
just takes up space, and chances are your resume is already too
long anyway.
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!
Undershooting.
I beg you: Please don’t write another story this fat-envelope season about a senior’s difficult decision between Penn and Columbia and Duke and Berkeley and Cornell. Seriously. Enough already.
If you REALLY want a writing job…
… here’s a gem! But if you are more of a dunker than a writer, there’s always this one
High school, meet college. College, meet high school.
More than half of Denver Public Schools students have to take at least one remedial class when they hit college, Jeremy Meyer of the Denver Post reports. I am sure that is a pretty typical stat, one worth lots of exploration. This is a good story, or stories, for both higher ed and K-12 reporters.
Jay asked me to slap him around.
Reporters frequently query EWA searching for expert opinions on pushing (I mean, encouraging!) AP classes for all students. I think the New York Times did a good job yesterday of rounding up the prevailing schools of thought.
No munching, please.
Words that you don’t use in real life, so you shouldn’t in your writing either:
References available upon request.
A lot of people ask me to edit their resumes and cover letters. (Sure, send me yours!) I am no career counseling expert, but two things stand out to me:
1. Don’t use your resume to get into all sorts of jazzy detail about the specific attributes you bring to your work. That’s what the cover letter is for.
2. Of COURSE your references are available upon request. Can anyone give me one reason to include that line on a resume? It just takes up space, and chances are your resume is already too long anyway.
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!