The Kauffman Seminar on Math and Science
Kauffman Conference Center : Kansas City, MO
May 12-13, 2008
Test results released in December show U.S. students lagging their peers internationally. Why? What is being done about it in the Midwest? What questions should journalists be asking?
The McGraw Seminar for Reporters New to the Education Beat
Teachers College, Columbia University: New York City
July 18-20, 2008
New to the education beat? Come to our NYC for relevant research on high school reform, teacher quality, math/science and pre-k. We'll provide context and perspective and send you back with a notebook full of new sources and ideas.
Hechinger Institute director Richard Lee Colvin has a new blog that looks at coverage of early childhood education and pre-school issues. Click on the icon above to have a look.
Eleanor Yang-Su
A reporter from the San Diego Union-Tribune at the Annual Seminar for Higher Education Reporters in Phoenix, AZ in November 2006.
91 percent of education reporters say the beat
requires special training, according to a survey
by Hechinger Institute researchers.
Baseball coverage focuses
on the game. See how
education reporting can focus on what happens in the classroom: Teaching.
From the McGraw Seminar for Reporters New to the Education Beat in New York City:
The school funding session was dynamite, too -- I have been reading up on the subject for months but I learned more useful info during the session than I've heard elsewhere.
-Heather Vogell, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
