The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "education beat" ...
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Investigating Higher Education
Use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Perez, when you need to cover the higher education beat. She gives great resources for where to look and story ideas for the data you receive.
Tags: higher education; property records; IRS; grants; student federal loans
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Covering Education: When there's not enough time or money.
McBride gives tips on how to cover education and colleges on a tight budget.
Tags: education beat; higher education
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Education Beat Tool Box
This tipsheet outlines how data helps you cover the education beat; what materials you have a legal right to; what data is collected; who works for the schools; where the money goes; and other "must see" documents.
Tags: education; data; databases; schools; students; teachers; private schools; charter schools
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The Education Beat: Don't Let Anyone Tell You It's Lame
Alpert discusses the potential of covering the education beat, noting it's a data-rich subject. She highlights possible stories to cover with plenty of examples of excellent work that has been done. She discusses the unique questions to explore when covering charter schools.
Tags: education; data; teacher pay; charter schools; attendance; teacher turnover; testing; special education; local school districts; state board of education
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Resources for the Education Beat
This tipsheet is simply a list of 32 resources for covering schools - agencies and their websites. (Five of them are specific to the state of Michigan.)
Tags: education; schools; Department of Education; Education statistics; ERIC; private schools; charter schools; stimulus; health and human services; Education Writers Association (EWA)
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Education: From cheaters to teachersr
The reporters created an extensive list of documents and sources that can be used to cover the education beat. They also include advice as you approach your coverage of this beat.
Tags: Incident reports; court records; transcripts; Department of Education's discipline database; sex offender registry; attorney general; public records; misconduct; administrative hearings; personnel files
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On the Beat: Covering Schools
This PowerPoint presentation discusses various aspects of the education beat. The authors include advice about building sources, using documents and creating database-driven stories. They suggest unusual sources for documents as well as a variety of story ideas.
Tags: beat reporting; story ideas; education; schools; watchdog reporting
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Using Data and Documents to Investigate Schools
This tipsheet lists and explains 27 sources of data and documents that will help turn an education beat into a watchdog beat. The tipsheet includes sources for charter schools' information, school violence, test scores, administrative contracts, and safety issues.
Tags: schools; education; school board; state government; local government; sources; beat reporting
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Covering Higher Education: Holding Administrators Accountable
Wallack discusses sources for covering the higher education beat. The tipsheet offers an overview of human sources, and useful documents that could lead to story ideas. Finally, the tipsheet ends with a list of story ideas that reporters on this beat could pursue.
Tags: higher education; college; universities; faculty; nonprofits; sources; story ideas; students
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Investigating Education: Story Topics to Turn Education Into a Watchdog Beat
Ciotta lists topics and provides example questions to get a reporter started with an investigations as well as possible sources. Topics include: safety and security, school violence, zero tolerance, violence, test scores, regression, and fiscal stories.
Tags: education; safety and security; school violence; zero tolerance; violence; test scores; regression; fiscal stories