This Week In Education Media: Banchero Becomes WSJ Education Reporter

This Week In Education

Media: Banchero Becomes WSJ Education Reporter

by Alexander Russo

News is out that the Tribune's award-winning education reporter Stephanie Banchero is headed to the Wall Street Journal, where she'll be the national education reporter. Though mostly focused on state and national issues Banchero also wrote about Chicago Public Schools and was one of the few journalists who braved to comment on this site using her own name. Banchero may be best known for her in-depth series about a little girl namedRayola Carwell who changed schools under No Child Left Behind. (What's your favorite Banchero story?) Her awards include two first place awards

Media: Biggest Education Stories Of The NCLB Era

Here's my list of the 10 biggest, most influential stories of the NCLB era -- memorable stories that shaped public understanding of the law and education over the past eight years (for better or worse):

Testing Limits New Yorker Nicholas Lemann 2001...The Test Mess NYT Sunday Magazine James Traub 2002...Rayola Carwell Chicago Tribune Stephanie Banchero 2004...The Turnaround Specialist PBS NewsHour John Merrow et al 2005...Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and MathNew York Times Sam Dillon 2006...Swamp Nurse The New Yorker Katherine Boo 2006...She Found Abuses in US Plan for Reading NYT Joseph Berger 2006...Huge Loophole In