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Nichole Dobo

Nichole Dobo

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Nichole Dobo manages audience engagement and innovation strategy for The Hechinger Report. In 2021, she was awarded a Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellowship from the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in publications including the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, High Country News and Slate. She worked at local and statewide newspapers earlier in her career, earning a variety of awards. Dobo, who grew up in rural western Pennsylvania, earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from The Pennsylvania State University.

dobo@hechingerreport.org
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Posted inHigher Education

What happens to students when rural colleges cut programs and majors

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo December 5, 2024December 4, 2024

Hi, this is higher ed reporter Olivia Sanchez. For this week’s newsletter, my colleague Nichole Dobo interviewed our senior higher education reporter Jon Marcus about his story last week examining how and why rural colleges are closing programs and majors. What you need to know Jon partnered with reporters from the education news outlet Open […]

Posted inMath Achievement

Experts share the latest research on how teachers can overcome math anxiety  

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo September 27, 2023March 19, 2024
Posted inHigher Education

How one university is creatively tackling the rural teacher shortage

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo March 13, 2023April 6, 2023
Posted inHigher Education

How one college is tackling the rural nursing shortage

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo October 28, 2022October 28, 2022
Posted inRural Education

Waiting for the traveling teacher: Remote rural schools need more hands-on help

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo September 21, 2022April 6, 2023
Posted inFuture of Learning

Teachers forced to “MacGyver” their own tech solutions

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo November 9, 2020November 12, 2020
school funding
Posted inNews

“Kids who have less, need more”: The fight over school funding

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo December 19, 2019March 12, 2021
Posted inNews

Short on financial knowledge, some school districts get bad deals on bonds

Avatar photoNichole Dobo by Sarah Butrymowicz and Nichole Dobo April 22, 2019March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

Rural schools turn to high-tech teacher training solutions

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo August 24, 2017February 9, 2022
Summit Public Schools personalizes instruction with technology so teachers can work with students individually and in small groups.
Posted inElementary to High School

How it works: A new report explains the research behind a school model

Nichole Dobo by Nichole Dobo August 9, 2017March 30, 2020

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