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Caroline Preston

Caroline Preston is managing editor who helps oversee Hechinger's K-12 and higher ed coverage. She previously worked as a features editor with Al Jazeera America’s digital team and a senior reporter with The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Her writing has appeared in publications including NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Wired.com, while stories she has edited or written have been honored by the Data Journalism Awards, the Education Writers Association, the Online News Association and others. Preston holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Brown University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

preston@hechingerreport.org
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Artificial intelligence
Posted inElementary to High School

Will AI really transform education?

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston September 26, 2019March 30, 2020
teaching kids about climate change
Posted inNews

Teaching global warming in a charged political climate

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston July 6, 2019March 9, 2023
Posted inElementary to High School

The silence of school leaders on climate change

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston June 12, 2019March 9, 2023
era of automation
Posted inNews

How colleges can help their students out-compete robots 

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston April 23, 2019April 8, 2021
participatory budgeting
Posted inNews

What happens when students are given a say in school budgets?

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston April 12, 2019March 30, 2020
Army veteran Chester Dixon, right, works with William Moore, Georgia Department of Labor veterans representative, to apply for a new skills-based program to get out-of-work veterans trained and back in the job market, in Atlanta. The program is open to veterans between the ages of 35 and 60.
Posted inHigher Education, Map to the Middle Class, News

Going back to school after 50

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston February 14, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

When a college degree is no longer a ticket to the middle class

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston February 7, 2019April 8, 2021
Jobs in information technology are growing quickly and employers are trying to find ways to get kids excited about careers in the field.
Posted inElementary to High School

How do schools train for a workplace that doesn’t exist yet?

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston January 31, 2019March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

A rural charter school splits an Oklahoma town

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston December 17, 2018February 9, 2022
Oliver Francis, of Philadelphia, was placed in foster care because he was truant. He graduated from George Junior Republic, a residential school in Grove City, Pennsylvania, this spring.
Posted inElementary to High School

New report underscores education problems in institutions for foster youth

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston December 13, 2018March 30, 2020

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