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Nick Chiles

Nick Chiles is an award-winning journalist and three-time New York Times bestselling author. He has written or co-written 14 books and won over a dozen major journalism awards during a journalism career that brought him to the Dallas Morning News, the Star-Ledger of New Jersey and New York Newsday, where he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of reporters.

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Posted inElementary to High School

What happens to a turnaround high school when its transformative principal walks away?

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles June 20, 2016March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, High School Reform, New Orleans, News, The South

Veteran black principal lifts New Orleans school with strength and love

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles November 17, 2015October 21, 2020
Yale University students and supporters participate in a march across campus to demonstrate against what they see as racial insensitivity at the Ivy League school on Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, in New Haven, Conn.
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

Yale students break through generations of pained black silence

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles November 12, 2015April 8, 2021
Marjada Tucker, 19, is a Rice University sophomore who started a summer program in her hometown of Starkville, Mississippi, to prepare students for college.
Posted inHigher Education, Mississippi, News, The South

A 19-year-old college student comes back to give hometown students a better chance

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles September 6, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School, News

Can black English help black children learn better? One educator believes so

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles August 7, 2015March 30, 2020
Dr. Princess Parker, educational consultant, works with a third grade student at East Sunflower summer school.
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

Full-court press for Mississippi third graders in summer school has disappointing results

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles July 29, 2015October 21, 2020
Rebecca Wolfe
Posted inElementary to High School, Future of Learning, News

Personalized learning is especially good for students of color

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles July 8, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Future of Learning, News

Lack of diversity among tech leadership could stall advances for children of color

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles June 24, 2015March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South

As Mississippi delivers bad news to 5,600 third graders, stressed-out parents say there must be a better way

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles May 28, 2015October 21, 2020
The banks of the Mississippi River, as seen from Great River Road State Park in the Mississippi Delta, where there is a dearth of structured activities for children in the summer. (Photo: Nick Chiles)
Posted inElementary to High School, Mississippi, News, The South, Time to Learn

Are the lazy days of summer killing our nation’s academic progress?

Avatar photo by Nick Chiles August 27, 2014October 21, 2020

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