Sep 25, 2018

Dallas Morning News reporter Lauren McGaughy covered public schools for six years before taking on the state government beat, so she was in familiar territory when asked to cover a state Board of Education meeting. What McGaughy wasn’t expecting was for that story about the state’s revised social studies standards...

Sep 18, 2018

Across the country, the way most students are being taught to read is out of step with more than 40 years of scientific research on how children learn this essential skill. That’s the case being made in a new radio documentary from APM Reports’ Emily Hanford, who describes the devastating domino effect of inadequate...

Sep 11, 2018

In recent years, multiple U.S. Secretaries of education, both Republican and Democrat, have called access to quality public schools a civil rights issue. At the same time, a growing number of states face court challenges to how they fund their K-12 systems, amid concerns that current approaches exacerbate...

Sep 4, 2018

Scott Jaschik, the editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed, shares his annual “what to watch” list for reporters covering postsecondary education—from the impact of the Trump administration’s policies and rhetoric on international-student enrollment to efforts to train the next generation of workers...