Another short hiatus from later tonight (keeping an eye on TVDSB and ETFO bargaining) until Monday evening. I am attending the National Education Writers' Association conference in Washington D.C. over the next few days.
The EWA is blogging the convention -- if you stick to the K-12 topics you can get an idea of the sessions I've been attending. Check back next week for my impressions of this U.S. education reporters' conference.
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- Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
- I am the managing editor of a small newsroom in Cornwall, Ont., responsible for all our local content online and in print. I have won a Canadian Community Newspaper Award for retelling the story of Winterbourne School, opened in the 19th century and closed in 2003. In addition, I have placed second in the U.S.-based National Education Writers' Association awards for "The ABCs of the EQAO," a five-part series on standardized testing. During the 2010-11 academic year, I was the Gordon N. Fisher Canadian Journalism Fellow at Massey College / University of Toronto, where I had the opportunity to audit several courses at OISE and visit schools in Germany and Finland. I still aspire to be among the best education reporters in Canada.
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Washington eh? It will be interesting to hear the buzz over school choice in THAT city!! Parents who support school choice have been more than a little ticked off at Obama's stance on voucers--especially when his own kids go to private school.
I'd like to know what you thought of Paul Tough. Seems that he writes along the lines of Patrick McCloskey (The Street Stops Here).
I'll sheepishly admit I'm not familiar with Patrick McCloskey, nor have I read much Paul Tough, including the book he spoke about over lunch Saturday. I was impressed, however by how he let the story taking place in schools excite him enough to turn it into a book. He outright admitted education was in his blood but that he veered away from entering the family business, so to speak, to become a reporter. It's encouraging a reporter averse to education would be drawn in by the story he saw unfolding in front of him and goes to show education reporting can be enlightening, entertaining and produce top-quality reaction from readers.
More on the rest of the conference soon, I promise.
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