A 2020 interview with Chana Joffe-Walt, who was the key behind This American Life’s 2015 “The Problem We All Live With” & 2020's “Nice White Parents."

“It feels like collective amnesia to me that each time...we have to get the latest tool into the classroom,” says Natasha Singer. “I think journalists also have collective amnesia sometimes.”

‘Children lost years of education,’ Sen. Rand Paul said, as Democrats accused the Kentucky Republican of ‘relitigating the past.’

Parental rage, educator remorse, & lackluster results have stripped edtech of its seeming inevitability — and created a much-needed opportunity for journalists to demonstrate their value.

Listen now | The peril and the promise of AI in schools "exist simultaneously," says journalist Lee Gaines — though AI's benefits can easily reinforce pre-existing inequalities.

For the beat to thrive, newsroom leaders, support organizations, and funders are going to have to leap into the messy new world of influencers, short-form videos, and AI-assisted news.

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There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on...

Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third gr...

Fresh off his spicy rebuke of a misguided ed research takedown in The Argument, the USC education professor gets real about education research, media coverage — and why he's not back on Twitter yet.

Online extremism and radicalization are affecting students, educators, and families. We need prevention-focused media coverage that doesn’t sensationalize outlier scenarios.

As federal immigration agents descended on Columbia Heights families, the school superintendent expected to stay silent. Then federal agents came for 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, and s...

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“Journalists can’t probe and provide context in the same way I can,” says the Georgetown professor behind a new Substack. However, she doesn’t have to “explain everything” the way journalists do.

“Journalists don’t probe and provide context in the same way I can,” says the Georgetown professor behind a new Substack. However, she doesn’t “explain everything” the way journalists have to.

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Watch now | Media columnist Dan Kennedy thinks legacy journalism needs to strengthen day-to-day news coverage and add nontraditional approaches — but not a wholesale reinvention.

Columbia Heights Public Schools says three of its students are still in federal immigration custody after the release of Liam Conejo Ramos and 10-year-old Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano.

One legal expert said even up until recently, “it would have been pretty unthinkable” for ICE to come onto school grounds like agents did at Roosevelt High in Minneapolis.

Educators demand reinstatement of a decades-old policy prohibiting most immigration enforcement near ‘sensitive locations’ like schools and bus stops

The Democrat Gazette's Josh Snyder is the only full-time mainstream school choice reporter I know of. But as choice spreads, there are likely to be others.

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The former full-time education reporter describes how her new book is meant to counteract some of her own past coverage that helped perpetuate a destructive narratives.

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“If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. And it’s okay to explore what’s really happening, no matter how the facade of a story makes you feel.”

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To regain reader trust in 2026 and beyond, education journalists have to understand the myths that surround their work and rethink traditional choices and approaches.

Newsroom veteran Scott Van Voorhis is building an independent reporting and commentary enterprise with a special focus on education issues.