Nov 11, 2015

Reporting the "Unsettled Journeys" project for the Baltimore Sun, veteran education reporter Liz Bowie spent eight months talking to students and staff at Patterson High School.

With limited resources but an ever-growing influx of newly immigrant students, the school is struggling to meet their academic needs, as well...

Nov 4, 2015

What does it really take to help students succeed at school and life, and how much of those gains can really be measured by test scores?

Those are some of the questions journalist Kristina Rizga set out to answer in her reporting on a San Francisco high school, first published by Mother Jones magazine. Her...

Oct 28, 2015

In 2013, Chicago education reporter Sarah Karp, asked a question: Why was a no-bid contract for $20 million awarded to a relatively unknown company chosen to provide professional development services in the nation’s third largest school district?

As a result of her dogged digging, Karp set off a chain of events that...

Oct 21, 2015

In a year-long series for the Christian Science Monitor and The Hechinger Report, veteran education reporter and best-selling author Peg Tyre follows Krystal Hardy, a brand-new principal at a New Orleans charter school.

Along the way, we get a firsthand look at just how complicated the job description has become, and...

Oct 14, 2015

"Solutions Journalism" aims to draw attention to credible responses to social problems. A brand-new resource can help education reporters take that approach with their own work on the beat.

Keith Hammonds, chief operating officer of the nonprofit Solutions Journalism Network, and Jackie Mader, Mississippi bureau chief...