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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 recentĀ analysis of “Nice White Parents,”Ā 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 youāre going to be writing about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, check out Issac Baileyās 2019 piece about how to write about deseg issues, calledĀ Itās not about the bus. āLesson #1: Avoid the ābusingā term as much as possible, or at least know what it means.ā
Last weekās column focused on theĀ pros and cons of the āEd Labā modelĀ of funding high-quality education journalism, which you can see in operation at the Seattle Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, and ā coming next month ā the Dallas Morning News. |
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PEOPLE, AWARDS, JOBS
Who’s going where & doing what? |
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| š„Ā The Connecticut Mirror has hired a new education reporter!Ā Adria WatsonĀ (above)Ā will cover K-12 and higher education, focusing on how students are impacted by state policies, proposed legislation, and decision-making. Follow herĀ here. The Mirrorās current education reporter,Ā 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!š„Ā New York Timesā education reportersĀ Dana GoldsteinĀ andĀ Eliza ShapiroĀ received high praise from Yahoo News national correspondentĀ Alexander NazaryanĀ onĀ Twitter. Alexander wrote, āAs a former teacher, I have to say that reporting byĀ Dana GoldsteinĀ andĀ Eliza ShapiroĀ on the state of education has been truly, consistently impressive ā nuanced, fair, getting at the issues w/o taking sides, pulling no punches but taking no potshots.ā
š„Ā U.S. News & World Report senior education reporterĀ Lauren CameraĀ is backĀ after a five-week leave, with herĀ first storyĀ about how schools were left in the lurch when negotiations on the coronavirus relief bill collapsed. Welcome back, Lauren!
š„Ā Culture writerĀ Jaelani Turner-WilliamsĀ has anĀ upcoming storyĀ in print in Bitch magazine about āprotecting and enlightening Black girls through homeschooling.ā
š„Ā The Boston GlobeāsĀ Sarah Carr, who leads The Great Divide team,Ā took a Washington Post story to task. āWhile the health risks and precautions of reopening schools need to be taken very very seriously ā and there are some valid arguments for not doing it at all ā the framing, timing and headline of this story seem needlessly alarmist.ā
š„Ā Rachel Cohen, a journalist who contributes to The Intercept and covers schools, among other things, hinted on Twitter that she has in mind a possibleĀ critique of Serialās much-admired “Nice White Parents.”Ā Contrary opinions are important. We hope she follows through! Look for her thoughts after all five episodes have been released.
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| ā°Ā The third season of Leon Neyfakhās āFiascoā podcast, focused on school segregation in Boston is out! Listen onĀ Luminary. Neyfakh was asked in the Financial TimesĀ whether it was appropriateĀ for a white reporter to cover this story. Meanwhile, Episode 4 of āNice White Parentsā came out Thursday, asking the question āIs it possible to limit the power of white parents?ā ListenĀ here.ā° The New York TimesāĀ Dana GoldsteinĀ was onĀ The DailyĀ podcast Thursday to talk about why teachers arenāt ready to reopen schools. Washington Post education reporterĀ Moriah BalingitĀ was on the NPR/WAMU 88.5 showĀ 1AĀ on Tuesday to talk about the pandemic and grading. Chalkbeat New York reporterĀ Reema AminĀ talked about NYC public schools reopening onĀ WNYCĀ on Monday.
ā° Politico California education reporterĀ Mackenzie MaysĀ talked about the controversy surrounding school reopenings onĀ Politico Dispatch. (She also wrote an amazingĀ first-person essay about her father, who died recently.) And USA Today national education reporterĀ Erin RichardsĀ participated in a Reddit AMA Tuesday to talk about online learning and better ways to address kidsā mental health. Catch upĀ here. |
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