Emily Richmond

These cuts at HUD are truly stunning in scale.

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Scoop: CPS CEO Pedro Martinez is one of six candidates in the running for superintendent of schools in Clark County, Nevada, the nation's fifth largest school district: chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/0…

Attempting a social media-free January. Be good to yourselves (and others).

@dog_rates pup trying best and falling sideways is basically my entire year in four seconds dogrates

The Dogs of 2024

As 2024 draws to a close today, I remember my friend and former colleague @marshallallen, a champion of quality journalism and quality health care, who died this year. Very much missed. propublica.org/article/marsha…

Such an incredibly important and maddening front-page story today by @natashanyt looking at how social media and smartphones are becoming an accelerant for in-school brawls. This is daily reality for many kids today:

How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.

Rethinking regional assignments and focusing on stories that convert readers into subscribers (and more resources for the ed team). NEW: Urgency, experimentation, & expansion at the @BaltimoreBanner - by education editor @rachelcmull kappanonline.org/ciera-mull-urg…

Need a review activity that gets your students moving and energized as the year winds down? We’ve got just the thing. 💯

I'm not just a ProPublica editor, I'm also a proud donor! In these last hours of #GivingTuesday #GivingNewsDay, please consider making a gift. Plus if you donate $40 or more, you're eligible for a free thank you gift. Today only! give.propublica.org/give/346521/#!…

Apply to @EdWriters’s National Awards for Education Reporting! These prestigious awards honor the exemplary work of journalists (and students!) who have covered education topics. You do not need to be a beat reporter to apply. The final deadline is Jan. 8. ewa.org/ewa-awards

Hearing more news of #medialayoffs. If you know folks affected, consider becoming a community coordinator of a mutual aid network. Here's how. If you have been affected, check this site for what to do right after a layoff + job links when you're ready. journalismcommunityaid.wordpress.com

McMahon in 2009 on problems in education at the time. "I see the effects of this growing gap between socio-economic, ethnic diversity, etc.,  and the performance in our children... The curriculum ought to be the same across the board ... " ctinsider.com/politics/artic…

Only 1 in 5 Americans support eliminating the Department of Education thebulwark.com/p/the-harris-p… @UMassPoll

College campuses have become fraught symbols of the hyper-polarization, anger, and fear characterizing American politics today. What does a second Trump administration means for American college campuses? Here are eight differing views on that question. chroni.cl/4hTIDx2

I'm so sorry to hear this, Jewél. To folks reading this, Jewél is an amazing reporter and kind person. Please hire her and send her tips to a new job. We need more investigative reporters on the ed beat like her.

How does a district’s size influence its approach to developing school leaders? A new @RANDCorporation survey offers insight: bit.ly/3zNCH7J

I'm also where the sky is blue. Follow me there, and we'll create an education writers' starter pack. @emilysays.bsky.social

For every child lost to a school shooting, there is a room that’s left behind. Eerily quiet. Tragically brimming with personality. And frozen in time. For the past six years, CBS News’ Steve Hartman has been traveling the country with photographer Lou Bopp, going into some of these rooms and photographing them. The heartbroken parents who opened their doors to us say people constantly tell them that they can’t imagine what they’re going through. But they say people need to imagine. CBSNews.com/rooms