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A Newspaper’s Report Cards Offer Revealing Insights into How Well Schools are Doing

Parents stand up to speak at school board meetings, clutching a copy of the newspaper. The dog-eared newsprint is the source of research that buttresses their comments.School officials pore over…
March 15, 1999

Using Education Data to Build A Story’s Foundation

Parents assist children in a fourth grade math class. Photo by Bill Batson, The Omaha World-Herald.For at least a decade before The Omaha World-Herald published its five-part series “The Learning…
March 15, 1999

Spring 1999: The Education Beat Introduction

In education, it’s the era of accountability. Teachers are tested to measure their ability to instruct. Students take standardized tests to find out what they have learned and where they…
March 15, 1999

On-Line Journalism: Frustrations Along the Road to the Future

I knocked on the coach’s office door in the visitor’s clubhouse at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.“Come in,” said Stump Merrill, the gruff manager of the Columbus (Ohio) “While in the…
March 15, 1999

A Dual-Track Approach to Tackling The Topic of Reading

Reporting the Story and Pitching in to Fix the Problem
March 15, 1999

Using the Realities of the Newsroom To Train Journalists

For two days in late September, Bebe sold the crack cocaine rocks known as “Cookies” in the pouring rain—cold and alone. While other kids were in school that morning, Bebe…
March 15, 1999

The Learning Gap: Highlighting Teachers’ Competency

Photo by Michelle Patterson, The Lexington Herald-Leader.Education writers often try to measure the success of their local schools by analyzing such things as test scores, class sizes and poverty rates.…
March 15, 1999

Teaching Journalism by Adhering to Unchanging Standards

Pages from Gene Graham’s Nieman year sketchbook.Confession: I actually went to journalism school. And now I teach in one. But I’ve also spent plenty of time in newsrooms, a dual…
March 15, 1999

When Mediocrity Beckons

A newsroom for journalism students. Photo courtesy Medill School of Journalism.Most of us know the frustration of desire outpacing ability. But what about coping with the reverse? What happens if…
March 15, 1999

International Journalists Use Internet Technology to Breach Borders

A journalist in Zimbabwe, researching a story with ties to Sweden, needed to contact an investigative reporter in that Scandinavian country, though he knew no one there. In Montreal, a…
March 15, 1999