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Author Archives: Richard Lee Colvin

Richard Lee Colvin is the former editor of The Hechinger Report. He spent many years writing about education for newspapers in California, including the Los Angeles Times, where he reported on state and national education issues. Before that he worked for the Oakland Tribune, the Hayward Daily Review and the Associated Press. Colvin earned a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Michigan. He has won numerous national awards for his coverage of education. He was twice selected as a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and in 2000 won a Knight-Wallace fellowship for mid-career journalists at the University of Michigan.

colvin@tc.edu
Posted inBlogs, Elementary to High School

Out of the starting blocks

by Richard Lee Colvin October 11, 2010March 30, 2020

Leaders working to fulfill their Race to the Top promises talk about the strategic, political, educational and technical challenges involved. One of the biggest? Communicating the program’s complexities

Posted inElementary to High School, News, The Dropout Problem

What can we do about the dropout problem?

by Richard Lee Colvin July 6, 2010March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, News

How Tennessee and Delaware won $600 million

by Richard Lee Colvin April 8, 2010March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School, News, What is Rigor?

Rigor: It’s all the rage, but what does it mean?

by Richard Lee Colvin and Joanne Jacobs April 7, 2010March 30, 2020
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