Resource for education reporters

The Education Writers Association offers a service called the public editor.

The "public editor" writes columns and is available to answer questions from education reporters. Membership in the association is not required to use this feature.


I have not used it yet. If anyone does, please give me a shout.

From EWA:
The National Education Writers Association created the public editor position in 2008, as a resource to better inform coverage of education, from preschool through college. Before becoming public editor, Linda Perlstein covered schools for The Washington Post and wrote two books, Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers and Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade. She has also written for The New York Times Book Review, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, Salon and several other publications, and taught education writing at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
Consider Linda your own personal sounding board, editor, coach. More than 200 reporters have called on the public editor for help. You don't have to belong to EWA to do so (though of course we'd love for you to join). The service is free and confidential. All you have to do is e-mail (lperlstein@ewa.org) or call (410-539-2464). Check out Linda's blog, The Educated Reporter.