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 "school safety" ...
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Investigating Higher Education--Powerpoint
Perez's Powerpoint presentation offers great examples of resources used and graphics on how to display your findings including personnel investigations, memos, SEC docs and more. Perez was part of the IRE award winning team for "On Shaky Ground".
Tags: higher education; school safety; EDGAR; PACER; Conflict of interest
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Anatomy of an Investigation
Use these tips when investigating safety issues involving construction sites and buildings that are already in use.
Tags: construction; school safety; oversight; public records; mismanagement; documents
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Investigating Public School Construction
Holland gives tips on how to use public records, confidential sources and computer-assisted reporting to expose reckless spending and shoddy construction in your public school's construction.
Tags: construction; school safety; oversight; public records
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Measuring risk: From earthquakes to nuclear plants, how to investigate community preparedness
Get tips on how to investigate community preparedness. Johnson offers lessons learned from "On Shaky Ground," a 19-month investigation of the seismic safety of California's schools.
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Turning schools data into scoops
Vogell explains the value of school data as a rich source for stories on education. She explains where and how to start with your reporting. She discusses out what to look at when evaluating test scores and student achievement; discipline and school safety; teaching and certification; various other valuable data.
Tags: education; testing; standardized test scores; National Board Certification; NBCL; schools; No Child Left Behind; students; school data; student achievement; grade inflation; college remediation; discipline; school safety
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From Database to Story - A Step-by-step Guide
Harbord and McKie show how you can utilize OSHA data to tell the story of workplace safety in non-traditional industries such as healthcare, schools (e.g., violence) and business (carpal tunnel syndrome). Their tipsheet walks you through the process of analyzing the data. And how to compare this information to other data sets to obtain a more complete sense of "the story."
Tags: data; database; OSHA; query; NAICS; excel; pivot tables; inspections; NICAR; National Institute of Computer-Assisted 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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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
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Using local data to answer the question,
Amons describes how to use CAR as a tool to beef up general assignment stories. Instead of just reporting on one isolated incident -- like a trucking accident or a botched 911 call -- you can do some database analysis to see how often those sorts of incidents occur. This will add more depth and context to your story.
Tags: truck accidents; school fire safety; beat reporting; story ideas; data analysis; computer-assisted reporting
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CAR for TV
Amons discusses several broadcast CAR stories that she worked on. The story ideas she includes range from truckers falling asleep at the wheel to school fire safety and 911 response time.
Tags: CAR; broadcast reporting; public records; data analysis; accidents