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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. Laura Pappano is author of School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics and the Battle for Public Education to be published by Beacon Press in January 2024.

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Posted inColleges in Crisis

A regional public university’s identity crisis

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

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

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano May 18, 2020April 8, 2021
second language
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?

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano March 31, 2019April 8, 2021
Angel Carter, a senior at Tulane University, leads the Green Wave Ambassadors, the tour guide group for the admissions office.
Posted inHigher Education, News

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

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano January 16, 2019September 13, 2021
Jenn Zweber and a group of students in grades K through 3 discuss the impact of a Service Learning project on their community, during the first year that Impact Academy at Orchard Lake opened in Lakeville, Minnesota.
Posted inElementary to High School

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

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano September 6, 2018March 30, 2020
Dan D. Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace.
Posted inNews

Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano July 2, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

Ivy League degree: Now what?

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano March 30, 2018March 30, 2020
Alfred "Red" Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme "Focusing on the Future."
Posted inHigher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

First-gen students at elite colleges go from lonely and overwhelmed to empowered and provoking change

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano March 12, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Is the college degree outdated?

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano April 27, 2017April 8, 2021

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