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 Gap,” … Read more
Ten young teens draped themselves over chairs, forming a sloppy circle in the center of an empty middle-school classroom. I sat on the edge of the circle, an outsider looking in on an extraordinary preadolescent confessional. “OK, clean time. How … Read more
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. But … Read more
Imaging Education: the Media and Schools in America Edited by Gene I. Maeroff Teachers College Press. 240 Pages. $50 hc, $23.95 pb.In the winter 1997 edition of Nieman Reports, I issued … Read more