Hooray for the Hechinger Report.
I am so swamped getting materials together for EWA’s annual meeting, where I will be running a seminar for new beat reporters, leading a roundtable on the polarization of the education debate, meeting one-on-one with journalists and launching a top-secret, totally awesome resource for education writers. So I have not had the time to read the Hechinger Report,
“I am going to college. Can you pay?”
My favorite charity in the last few years has been Donors Choose. It has the shopping-mall allure of those microcredit charities where you get to choose whom you fund—the Congolese tilapia seller? the Ecuadorian photographer?—plus how can you not love the idea of sending money directly to cool classroom projects? I will say that students waste too much time writing thank-you notes to each donor even though I try to say “Don’t bother,” and you should look at each teacher’s request PDF, where you might see that “Fun math