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Emily Richmond

Emily Richmond is the public editor for the National Education Writers Association. She was the education reporter for the Las Vegas Sun from 2002 to 2010, and in 2011 she was Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. She blogs at www.educatedreporter.com. Follow her on Twitter at @EWAEmily.

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Little-noticed victims of the higher education shutdowns: college towns

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond May 11, 2020April 8, 2021

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Unencumbered by groups of jubilant students snapping selfies in their caps and gowns, absent the usual bumper-to-bumper caravans of out-of-town vehicles and free of swarming crowds in maize and blue, a pedestrian could do what would otherwise have been unthinkable on a University of Michigan graduation day: walk the length of […]

Posted inNews

When school districts can’t raise funds for facilities

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond April 22, 2019September 17, 2021
Students move between floors at Whitmore Lake High School, a spacious facility that is under capacity as enrollment has steadily declined in recent years.
Posted inElementary to High School

When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond April 22, 2019March 30, 2020
Student Jeremy Pichardo works with freshman Angela Cutone in the Culinary Arts department.
Posted inElementary to High School

A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond April 16, 2018October 13, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

Can this rural high school ‘drop the drama’?

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond January 27, 2017February 9, 2022
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More students are graduating but that’s not the whole story

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond October 17, 2016March 30, 2020
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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond June 12, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, News

When students lead parent-teacher conferences

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond April 6, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inCommon Core, Elementary to High School, News

How the Department of Defense schools are teaching their version of Common Core math

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond February 10, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, News

What happens when instead of suspensions, kids talk out their mistakes?

Avatar photo by Emily Richmond December 29, 2015March 30, 2020

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