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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 inElementary to High School

‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

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Posted inHigher Education

Women have been marginalized in the building trades. The infrastructure bill could change that

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Posted inElementary to High School

Climate change is sabotaging education for America’s students – and it’s only going to get worse

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Posted inSolutions

Summer school programs race to help students most in danger of falling behind

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Posted inCoronavirus and Education

How the pandemic has altered school discipline — perhaps forever

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Posted inMap to the Middle Class

Why is it so hard for workers to find new jobs?

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Posted inMap to the Middle Class

The jobs where sexual harassment and discrimination never stopped

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Posted inCoronavirus and Education

‘I can’t do this anymore’: How four middle schoolers are struggling through the pandemic

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Posted inElementary to High School

Thousands of families in special education limbo

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Posted inCoronavirus and Education

Remote learners feel shortchanged in districts pressured to reopen in person

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