Mark Walsh is a contributing writer to Education Week. He has covered education issues for more than two decades and in this blog looked at how schools are covered in the general news media and in the popular culture. This blog is no longer being updated.
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Tampa Bay Times Series Takes Top Prize at Education Writers Association
The newspaper's "Failure Factories" series found that the Pinellas County, Fla., school board's decision to end desegregation efforts led to the steep decline of five schools.
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Survey Finds a 'Golden Age' of Education Journalism
The typical U.S. education journalist is female, works for a newspaper or online outlet, and is optimistic about the future of the field, a survey says.
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Sigma Delta Chi Award to Education Week for New Orleans Package
The Society of Professional Journalists also honors a TV documentary on the children of Katrina and a small newspaper's report on school district financial irregularities.
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Two Newspapers' Series on Race and Education Awarded Pulitzer Prizes
The Tampa Bay Times won for its "Failure Factories" series, while Farah Stockman of The Boston Globe won for commentary about the legacy of desegregation in Boston.
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NPR Ed's 'School Money' Project Examines Finance Inequities
The project includes stories on the web and NPR's news shows, contributions by reporters from local stations, and an interactive map developed with Education Week.
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Tampa Bay Times Series on Pinellas District's Failures Wins Top Investigative Prize
The newspaper won the Investigative Reporters & Editors award for reporting on the failures of the Pinellas County, Fla., district's efforts to educate African-American children.
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NBC's Education Nation Forum to Mark Anniversary of Baltimore Death, Unrest
The April 14 forum comes nearly a year after civil unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray, who went into a coma while in a police van.
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De Niro, Tribeca Film Festival Pull Anti-Vaccine Film From Slate After Outcry
A controversial documentary asserting a causal link between childhood vaccines and autism has been pulled from the festival's schedule next month.
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On '60 Minutes,' a Visit to St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark, N.J.
The private school run by Benedictine monks serves more than 500 boys, mostly from low-income African-American or Hispanic families.
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Documentary Shows the Challenges Facing Four Blind Teenagers
"Do You Dream in Color?" follows the four from venues including the skate park to the special education meeting as they strive to achieve their goals.
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At ReelAbilities Film Festival, an Overdue Look at 'Twice Exceptional' Students
The documentary focuses on children who are gifted in one respect or another but also struggle with one or more cognitive disabilities.
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Curriculum Organization Partners With NPR to Offer More Classroom Audio
National Public Radio and Listen Current, a group founded by a former radio journalist, team up to bring more NPR segments into the classroom.
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Viceland Cable Channel Shows Promise for Reporting on Youth, Education
One show on the new outlet examines gangs and rap music in Compton, Calif., including a visit to the high school of rapper Kendrick Lamar.
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On ABC, Diane Sawyer to Interview Mother of a Columbine Killer
Sue Klebold, mother of one of the two killers, is releasing a memoir. Fourteen students, including the killers, died in the tragedy, along with a teacher.