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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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Dan D. Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace.
Posted inNews

Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano July 2, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

Ivy League degree: Now what?

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano March 30, 2018March 30, 2020
Alfred "Red" Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme "Focusing on the Future."
Posted inHigher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

First-gen students at elite colleges go from lonely and overwhelmed to empowered and provoking change

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano March 12, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Is the college degree outdated?

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano April 27, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Some investors, universities see a return in fronting students’ tuition

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano March 29, 2016April 8, 2021

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