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Caroline Preston

Caroline Preston is managing editor who helps oversee Hechinger's K-12 and higher ed coverage. She previously worked as a features editor with Al Jazeera America’s digital team and a senior reporter with The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Her writing has appeared in publications including NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Wired.com, while stories she has edited or written have been honored by the Data Journalism Awards, the Education Writers Association, the Online News Association and others. Preston holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Brown University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

preston@hechingerreport.org
Posted inSolutions

Activist students go to summer camp to learn how to help institute a ‘green new deal’ on their campuses

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston August 17, 2023September 8, 2023
Posted inElementary to High School

How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in 3 cities

Avatar photoAvatar photoJaveria Salman by Christina A. Samuels, Caroline Preston and Javeria Salman August 7, 2023October 29, 2024
Posted inElementary to High School

What happens when teachers run the school

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston April 25, 2023April 24, 2023
Posted inNews

Coverage of climate change in college textbooks is headed in the wrong direction

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston December 21, 2022December 21, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

One state mandates teaching climate change in almost all subjects – even PE

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston November 5, 2022April 28, 2023
Posted inElementary to High School

Canceled classes, sweltering classrooms: How extreme heat impairs learning

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston September 16, 2022September 16, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photoNeal MortonAvatar photoAvatar photo by Tara García Mathewson, Ariel Gilreath, Lillian Mongeau Hughes, Neal Morton, Caroline Preston and Christina A. Samuels June 15, 2022July 20, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston May 19, 2022October 6, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like? 

Avatar photo by Talia Richman, Rebecca Griesbach, Jenn Smith and Caroline Preston April 27, 2022May 2, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

‘We’re really underwater here’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photoNeal MortonAvatar photoAvatar photo by Sarah Garland, Ariel Gilreath, Lillian Mongeau Hughes, Neal Morton, Caroline Preston and Christina A. Samuels March 1, 2022June 23, 2022

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