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How to Cover the Story

The best data are often the hardest to parse. Sure, a neat snapshot of three or four variables is easy on the eyes, but to really dig deep and find important an...
On the question of state standards, the short answer appears to be “not much.” That doesn’t mean Sept. 11 isn’t being taught....
In 1910, one in four children in the U.S. was an immigrant, and most of that group were European, Christian and white....
Charter schools have grown at a rapid rate over the past 20 years as parents, activist groups, lawmakers and others look for alternatives to the traditional pub...
Award-winning Boston Globe journalist Meghan Irons shares lessons from her reporting on two complex stories about students and race...
Reporters face increasingly complex ethical and legal questions when it comes to interviewing and reporting on children in the digital age....
Most education journalists probably remember last year’s viral video depicting members of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity singin...
I spent an academic year as an embedded reporter inside a Memphis high school that enrolled hundreds of children of Mexican immigrants...
When David DesRoches learned in 2013 that a small, wealthy Connecticut town was failing to educate its special-needs children properly, he began some textbook i...
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