In recent years, The Grade has published several pieces about the challenges of covering teachers unions, strikes, and protests:
Cover teachers unions like you cover school districts (2022)
What really happened in Chicago? (2022)
How to interview AFT head Randi Weingarten — or any other public official (April 2021)
Jake Tapper’s CNN interview with NEA’s Becky Pringle features softball questions, misleading answers (March 2021)
The case for more aggressive national education reporting (February 2021)
Two hours a day!? Remote learning provides meager offerings for low-income kids (May 2020)
Covering education in a unionized newsroom (February 2020)
Untold stories behind the Chicago teachers strike (October 2019)
How to cover a protest (December 2019)
Much-improved coverage of the Los Angeles teachers strike (January 2019)
New York City 1968 wasn’t a teachers strike; it was a community insurrection (September 2018)
Teacher strike coverage illustrates need to amplify parent, student voices (August 2018)
Oklahoma teacher walkout coverage marred by partisan politics (April 2018)
In 2017, The Grade also published a piece about criticism of media coverage by the head of the Los Angeles Calif. teachers union at an education writers conference.
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