Here are some of The Grade’s most notable columns, reported pieces, and reflections focused on higher education:
A former education reporter asks herself whether she was overly focused on accountability and failed to give readers historical context in her coverage.
Why did it take the FBI to expose what, in retrospect, looks like an obvious invitation to bypass the normal admissions process?
What did we learn about media coverage of college admissions from the T.M. Landry scandal?
Too much media coverage focuses on elite institutions and downplays the challenges and successes of the institutions that educate the vast majority of students.
Talking to the reporter about how she reported and wrote her New Yorker story about a parent trying to get her college degree.
Tired tropes about scarcity and backwardness obscure stories about diversity and innovation, according to Open Campus’s rural higher education reporter.
Troubling higher education trends haven’t gotten much coverage from mainstream news outlets, according to an interview with New America’s Kevin Carey.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is founder and editor of The Grade, an award-winning effort to help improve media coverage of education issues. He’s also a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship winner and a book author. You can reach him at @alexanderrusso.
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