How Education Scholars Stay Informed
An Opinion Collection
As part of the annual release of the , we reached out to a handful of influential scholars from this year鈥檚 rankings to find out how they stay informed. As the media landscape becomes more atomized and the political landscape more fractious, we wanted to know how scholars are keeping current, both in terms of specific magazines, journals, social-media platforms, websites, news outlets, and books, as well as more general guiding philosophies.
The EdWeek Research Center also dug into this year鈥檚 rankings to identify who among them was most likely to be referenced in newspaper coverage (according to LexisNexis) and what those scholars had in common.
Families & the Community
Opinion
Education News Has Become a Surging River. Here's How I Stay Afloat
It鈥檚 hard to overstate how profoundly the internet has altered the media landscape, writes Frederick M. Hess. Have our habits caught up?
Families & the Community
Opinion
It's Hard to Stay on Top of Education Policy. You've Got to Have a Strategy
There's no one-stop shop to get everything you need from education policy, politics, and practice, writes academic Deven E. Carlson.
Families & the Community
Opinion
5 Guidelines to Avoid Getting Bamboozled by Misleading News
Deceptive news and research is having a heyday. Here鈥檚 how distinguished professor Donna Y. Ford cuts through the clutter.
Families & the Community
Opinion
When Online Surfing Replaced Long Days in a Dusty Library
Changing what and where I read has reshaped how I write about research鈥攁nd where I publish that writing, explains Jo Boaler.
School & District Management
Opinion
Research Is Full of Oversimplifications. Here's How to Put It All in Context
Scholars can't read everything on a given topic, but demands for productivity keep growing, writes Arizona State University's Alfredo J. Artiles.
Education
Opinion
What Gets an Education Scholar Into the Newspaper? (Data)
The EdWeek Research Center dug into what some of the education scholars with the most newspaper mentions had in common.
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