New Beginnings… An Exciting Time For Education Policy
Editor’s Note: Today, Education Sector Board Chair Macke Raymond announced that Richard Lee Colvin will join Education Sector as executive director. Here is his first blog post as a Q&E blogger:
For the past eight years, I’ve had the great fortune to lead the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, where I’ve worked with my colleagues to support journalists across the country as they strive to provide their readers and listeners with high quality, informed and insightful reporting about all the education issues facing our country and our communities.
Over the past year, the Hechinger Institute created The Hechinger Report, which is a non-profit, non-partisan source of in-depth reporting on education. We’ve had good support from foundations and have collaborated with many fine news organizations to increase the supply of such coverage. It’s been an exhilarating, exhausting and highly rewarding time, one that I will value for the rest of my life. In that endeavor, I’ve had the honor of working with talented and committed colleagues who believed in good journalism and in the power of education to change lives.
I know that power personally. Neither of my parents had the chance to go to college, though they educated themselves along the way and achieved great success. Perhaps their biggest success was that they insisted on