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BEST OF THE WEEK
The week’s best education journalism, all in one place. |
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NICE WHITE PARENTS, BUSING, & THE ED LAB MODEL
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| There was no new column this week, but you might want to read this recent analysis of “Nice White Parents,” the new podcast whose fourth episode dropped yesterday. As Ira Glass put it, “There is so much reporting on people of color as people of color, and so little reporting on white people as white people, even when they’re at the heart of a story.”If youâre going to be writing about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, check out Issac Baileyâs 2019 piece about how to write about deseg issues, called Itâs not about the bus. âLesson #1: Avoid the âbusingâ term as much as possible, or at least know what it means.â
Last weekâs column focused on the pros and cons of the âEd Labâ model of funding high-quality education journalism, which you can see in operation at the Seattle Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and â coming next month â the Dallas Morning News. |
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PEOPLE, AWARDS, JOBS
Who’s going where & doing what? |
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| đ„ The Connecticut Mirror has hired a new education reporter! Adria Watson (above) will cover K-12 and higher education, focusing on how students are impacted by state policies, proposed legislation, and decision-making. Follow her here. The Mirrorâs current education reporter, Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, will take on a broader role covering disparities in general, including education, health, housing, criminal justice, and more. Congrats, Adria and Jacqueline!đ„ New York Timesâ education reporters Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro received high praise from Yahoo News national correspondent Alexander Nazaryan on Twitter. Alexander wrote, âAs a former teacher, I have to say that reporting by Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro on the state of education has been truly, consistently impressive â nuanced, fair, getting at the issues w/o taking sides, pulling no punches but taking no potshots.â
đ„ U.S. News & World Report senior education reporter Lauren Camera is back after a five-week leave, with her first story about how schools were left in the lurch when negotiations on the coronavirus relief bill collapsed. Welcome back, Lauren!
đ„ Culture writer Jaelani Turner-Williams has an upcoming story in print in Bitch magazine about âprotecting and enlightening Black girls through homeschooling.â
đ„ The Boston Globeâs Sarah Carr, who leads The Great Divide team, took a Washington Post story to task. âWhile the health risks and precautions of reopening schools need to be taken very very seriously â and there are some valid arguments for not doing it at all â the framing, timing and headline of this story seem needlessly alarmist.â
đ„ Rachel Cohen, a journalist who contributes to The Intercept and covers schools, among other things, hinted on Twitter that she has in mind a possible critique of Serialâs much-admired “Nice White Parents.” Contrary opinions are important. We hope she follows through! Look for her thoughts after all five episodes have been released.
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| â°Â The third season of Leon Neyfakhâs âFiascoâ podcast, focused on school segregation in Boston is out! Listen on Luminary. Neyfakh was asked in the Financial Times whether it was appropriate for a white reporter to cover this story. Meanwhile, Episode 4 of âNice White Parentsâ came out Thursday, asking the question âIs it possible to limit the power of white parents?â Listen here.â° The New York Timesâ Dana Goldstein was on The Daily podcast Thursday to talk about why teachers arenât ready to reopen schools. Washington Post education reporter Moriah Balingit was on the NPR/WAMU 88.5 show 1A on Tuesday to talk about the pandemic and grading. Chalkbeat New York reporter Reema Amin talked about NYC public schools reopening on WNYC on Monday.
â° Politico California education reporter Mackenzie Mays talked about the controversy surrounding school reopenings on Politico Dispatch. (She also wrote an amazing first-person essay about her father, who died recently.) And USA Today national education reporter Erin Richards participated in a Reddit AMA Tuesday to talk about online learning and better ways to address kidsâ mental health. Catch up here. |
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