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Author Archives: Laura Pappano

Laura Pappano is an education journalist who also writes about gender and sport. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Education Life section and former education columnist for The Boston Globe. Her stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor and other publications. Pappano is founder of the New Haven Student Journalism Project, which helps second- to eighth-graders produce a real newspaper, and is writer-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women. She has a bachelor’s degree from Yale.

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college for adults
Posted inHigher Education

For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

by Laura Pappano August 5, 2021July 29, 2021

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As it did for a lot of people, the pandemic gave Kara Reilly time to think.   This story also appeared in USA Today “My turning moment was when I was shut down and I had 11 weeks to sit around,” said Reilly, 49, a hairdresser in Louisville, Kentucky, whose salon closed early […]

Posted inCoronavirus and Education

‘Right now is not my time’: How Covid dimmed college prospects for students who need help most

by Laura Pappano March 4, 2021March 3, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? Go local

by Laura Pappano December 4, 2020April 1, 2021
Posted inColleges in Crisis

A regional public university’s identity crisis

by Laura Pappano August 19, 2020September 22, 2021
Posted inNews

Quarantine campuses: With dorms shut and class online, students DIY college life

by Laura Pappano May 18, 2020April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

by Laura Pappano November 19, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Getting rid of the ‘gotcha’: College students try to tame political dialogue

by Laura Pappano March 31, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus

by Laura Pappano January 16, 2019September 13, 2021
Posted inElementary to High School

A “handmade forerunner” of personalized learning, forged by teachers

by Laura Pappano September 6, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

by Laura Pappano July 2, 2018March 30, 2020

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