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Author Archives: Christina A. Samuels

Christina Samuels writes, assigns and edits stories about educational innovation, resilience and inequities, primarily in the South. Samuels previously worked at Education Week, where she covered topics such as educational equity, special education, early childhood education and school district governance. She also had stints as a staff writer at The Washington Post and The Miami Herald. In 2009, she was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, and in 2011 she participated in the Education Policy Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C. Samuels earned a bachelor’s degree in newspaper journalism from Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.

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Twitter: @casamuels

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Posted inHigher Education

A historic moment for HBCUs?

by Christina A. Samuels March 29, 2022March 29, 2022

DOVER, Del. — Nearly 150 years after its founding, the end was near for Wesley College. This story also appeared in Andscape A fixture of Delaware’s state capital, the private liberal arts institution had a reputation for offering a close-knit and supportive atmosphere for its students. Even so, its enrollment had dwindled from a high […]

Posted inElementary to High School

Luring Covid-cautious parents back to school

by Christina A. Samuels March 19, 2022March 21, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

‘We’re really underwater here’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

by Sarah Garland, Ariel Gilreath, Lillian Mongeau, Neal Morton, Caroline Preston and Christina A. Samuels March 1, 2022March 3, 2022
Posted inEarly Education

We struggle to measure quality child care — and even more to fund it

by Christina A. Samuels February 3, 2022February 2, 2022
Posted inNews

How fifth graders see the world in 20 years

by Lillian Mongeau, Christina A. Samuels, Kathryn Palmer and Chelsea Sheasley January 3, 2022January 3, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

‘It’s so hard and so challenging’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

by Sarah Garland, Ariel Gilreath, Neal Morton, Lillian Mongeau, Caroline Preston and Christina A. Samuels November 29, 2021February 10, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

States’ urgent push to overhaul reading instruction

by Christina A. Samuels November 10, 2021November 11, 2021
Posted inEarly Education, Elementary to High School, News

Report catalogs a decade of declining spending for state preschool

by Christina A. Samuels April 29, 2013March 30, 2020
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