Author

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.

Recent Stories

Out of the starting blocks

By the time nine states and the District of Columbia were awarded more than $3.3 billion for school reform in the U.S. Department of Education’s “Race to the…

Blogs

by  Richard Lee Colvin  – October 11, 2010

What can we do about the dropout problem?

This story was part of a special section of the July-August, 2010 edition of the Washington Monthly magazine that was guest edited by Richard Lee Colvin, editor of The Hechinger…

The Dropout Problem

by  Richard Lee Colvin  – July 6, 2010

How Tennessee and Delaware won $600 million

The U.S. Department of Education this week named only two small states—Delaware and Tennessee—as first-round winners of the unprecedented competition known as Race to the Top for shares of $4…

K-12

by  Richard Lee Colvin  – April 8, 2010

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

  Remember the three Rs – reading, writing and ’rithmetic? Get ready to add a fourth: rigor. It’s the buzzword in education.…

What is Rigor?

by  Richard Lee Colvin  and  Joanne Jacobs  – April 7, 2010