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Laura Pappano

Laura Pappano is an education journalist who also writes about gender and sport. A former education columnist for The Boston Globe, she has been a regular contributor to The New York Times education section and The Hechinger Report. Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Washington Post, and other publications. Pappano is founder of the New Haven Student Journalism Project, which helps students in grades 3-8 produce a real newspaper in print and online, and is writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She has a bachelor’s degree from Yale. Laura's most recent book is School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics and the Battle for Public Education, which was published by Beacon Press in January 2024.

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Posted inMap to the Middle Class

More students question college, putting counselors in a fresh quandary

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
college for adults
Posted inHigher Education

For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano August 5, 2021April 10, 2022
Posted inCoronavirus and Education

‘Right now is not my time’: How Covid dimmed college prospects for students who need help most

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano March 4, 2021March 3, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano December 4, 2020February 9, 2022
Posted inColleges in Crisis

A regional public university’s identity crisis

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano August 19, 2020September 22, 2021
Posted inNews

Quarantine campuses: With dorms shut and class online, students DIY college life

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano May 18, 2020April 8, 2021
second language
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano November 19, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Getting rid of the ‘gotcha’: College students try to tame political dialogue

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano March 31, 2019April 8, 2021
Angel Carter, a senior at Tulane University, leads the Green Wave Ambassadors, the tour guide group for the admissions office.
Posted inHigher Education, News

America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano January 16, 2019September 13, 2021
Jenn Zweber and a group of students in grades K through 3 discuss the impact of a Service Learning project on their community, during the first year that Impact Academy at Orchard Lake opened in Lakeville, Minnesota.
Posted inElementary to High School

A “handmade forerunner” of personalized learning, forged by teachers

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano September 6, 2018March 30, 2020

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