![]() “We used our findings to hold ourselves accountable, and we increased the share of Black and Hispanic/Latino voices…” Read this thread for more on their findings and next steps. Thought-provoking commentary on the latest coverageĪbove: Chalkbeat launched a new initiative about source diversity after auditing their own coverage and finding an overrepresentation of white voices. These stories dominated the conversation, changed minds, and altered the course of events - for better or worse.īonus: Here’s another list of COVID-era journalism, this one from EdWeek columnist and high school teacher Larry Ferlazzo. To mark a year’s efforts at chronicling the story, this week’s column features the 15 most memorable K-12 COVID stories of the year. Over the past 12 months, education reporters have had to cover a year of grief and anger - for the most part, without going inside schools. ![]() To get daily education headlines and education news events, follow _. □ BONUS: I also loved this story from the Washington Post, ‘An essential service’: Inside Biden’s struggle to meet his school reopening promises, which offers an inside look at the struggles the Biden team is experiencing on this promise. “Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers the message is you are a threat to us.” This story also won a lot of praise from fellow journalists, including a comment that Flanagan’s “prose is delicious, and her insight withering.” “Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards the message is you are precious to us,” she writes. Flanagan takes a harsh look at elite schools and their impact on society, especially when so many public schools are floundering. □ RUNNER-UP: This week’s runner-up is Caitlin Flanagan’s Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene in The Atlantic. See also: ‘Wake Up, Do School, Repeat’: A Year Of Pandemic Life Has Taken Its Toll On High School Seniors from GBH Boston’s yearlong series Covid and the Classroom. The story won a lot of praise from other journalists, who called it devastating, gutting, and wrenching. The benefits in terms of reduced COVID cases were minimal. Though only a 30-minute drive apart, high schoolers in this part of the country lived worlds apart in the pandemic - and for some kids the consequences were severe. In it, MacGillis contrasts the COVID responses in Hobbs, New Mexico, where schools and sports shut down, and Seminole and Denver City, Texas, where they did not. □ BEST: The best story this week is another stellar feature from Alec MacGillis in ProPublica: The Lost Year: What the Pandemic Cost Teenagers. The best education journalism of the week ![]() □ Education Disrupted: 52 Unforgettable Weeks For Students & Schools Captured in 52 Iconic Photos (The 74)įor other big stories this week, see Media Tidbits two sections below. □ A Year of Upheaval and Unexpected Insights (Education Week) □ A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, school as we know it has been transformed (Chalkbeat) Here’s what life looks like for them, one year in. (Chalkbeat) □ They sent early SOS signals about COVID and schools. □ Back to Class After a Year Online (New York Times) □ Inside a Long, Messy Year of Reopening Schools (New Republic) □ Growing up on screens: How a year lived online has changed our children (WaPo) ![]() □ Lessons Learned From a Year of Closed Schools (US News) Some have since opened, others still haven’t. Here’s a look at what’s changed and what we’ve learned in the last year: The big story of the week is the one-year anniversary of school closures across the country.
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