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 "elementary education" ...
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Downloading the Data on Teachers
"Crunching teacher performance data is one of the hottest -- and most controversial -- areas in education reporting right now." Felch offers helpful tips on how to utilize that data to find out who's cheating who.
Tags: test scores; teachers; elementary education; teacher performance
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Investigating Education: 3 F's Earn You an A
Hall discusses how good education reporters utilize families, facts and fun to strengthen their reporting. He offers examples of each category and advice for incorporating it into daily beat reporting.
Tags: elementary school; high school; sources; developing sources; PTO; PTA; school board; No Child Left Behind; school administrators; state government; Department of Education
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Checking out test scores with CAR
This tipsheet is all about standardized test scores. Hacker discusses different ways to examine a set of scores, such as looking at the data geographically, examining results over time and trying different ways of reporting scores.
Tags: standardized tests; education; elementary school; cheating; mapping; schools; teachers
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First Day on the Education Beat: Who to See, What to Do, What to Ask
Tipsheet includes guidelines, questions and answers about how cover the education beat. Includes how to cover K-12 and also higher education. Also features some common obstacles/problems reporters face, and how to overcome those obstacles and problems. In addition, the tipsheet provides story ideas for reporters covering both K-12 and higher education. The last few pages of the tipsheet includes links to relevant education sites that will help reporters gather information for the education beat.
Tags: education; education beat; higher ed; higher education; K-12; middle school; elementary school; junior high; high school; covering education; education websites; school; secondary education
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Measuring equity in schools
This tipsheet explains how to use student and teacher computer records to analyze their racial composition and income levels, as well as changes in attendance, test scores and assignments. Haddix uses uniform school accounting system to analyze spending and mapping software to look for geographic trends.
Tags: CAR; elementary schools; Ohio; minorities