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Tara García Mathewson

Tara García Mathewson was a reporter covering inequality and innovation in K-12 education, nationally, and she oversaw coverage for Hechinger en Español as the languages editor. She has been writing about education since 2012, first for the Daily Herald in Chicago’s northwest suburbs and then as a freelancer until she joined The Hechinger Report in 2017, where she has focused on the “Future of Learning” and educational inequalities. García Mathewson has won awards for beat reporting and her investigations into the educational technology industry, among other topics. Her work has appeared in a variety of regional and national news outlets, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

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Posted inElementary to High School

Many schools find ways to solve absenteeism without suspensions

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson and Maria Polletta December 13, 2022December 13, 2022
Posted inHechinger en Español

Derechos civiles en riesgo: Estudiantes afroamericanos y latinos son suspendidos más por faltar a clase.

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Tara García Mathewson, Maria Polletta and Fazil Khan December 9, 2022December 8, 2022
Posted inRace and Equity

Civil rights at stake: Black, Hispanic students blocked from class for missing class

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Tara García Mathewson, Maria Polletta and Fazil Khan December 8, 2022December 8, 2022
Posted inThe West

Inside our analysis of attendance-related suspensions in Arizona

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Maria Polletta, Tara García Mathewson and Fazil Khan December 6, 2022December 7, 2022
Posted inRace and Equity

When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson and Maria Polletta December 6, 2022December 7, 2022
Posted inHechinger en Español

Cuando el castigo es el mismo que el delito: Suspendido por faltar a clase

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson and Maria Polletta December 6, 2022December 7, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

Missouri district brings back corporal punishment — at the urging of parents, it says

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson September 1, 2022September 1, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School, Featured Stories

‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photoNeal MortonAvatar photoAvatar photo by Tara García Mathewson, Ariel Gilreath, Lillian Mongeau, Neal Morton, Caroline Preston and Christina A. Samuels June 15, 2022July 20, 2022
Posted inRace and Equity

Reporter’s notebook: Taking a deeper look at corporal punishment data

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson June 14, 2022June 13, 2022
Posted inElementary to High School

‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddle students

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson June 6, 2022June 25, 2022

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