Cierra Morgan
Cierra Morgan reports on how everyday school routines reveal deeper questions about child learning and education policy, with a particular focus on school recess and classroom discipline.
School recess and how children learn
At the Los Angeles Times, Morgan covers education as an intern, concentrating on how structured playtime fits into the academic day. In a recent piece on how an additional 30 minutes of recess could change how children learn, she looks at the relationship between outdoor playtime and what happens when students return to class. The work treats recess as a core part of the school experience and uses it to show how schools shape children’s time and attention.
Recess as punishment and policy change
Morgan also writes about the use of recess as a disciplinary tool and the policy drive to end the practice. In coverage asking whether teachers should be allowed to take away recess as punishment, she follows a statewide decision in California that bars schools from withholding recess in that way. These stories frame rules about something as familiar as recess as decisions with real consequences for student well-being and school climate.
Question-led education coverage through the lens of recess
Across her recent work, Morgan uses question-led and explanatory headlines to open up issues that sit at the intersection of family concerns, classroom practice, and state policy. By focusing on specific topics such as recess length and discipline, she connects shifts in education policy to concrete changes in the school day. Her reporting uses recess as a lens on how children experience school, turning policy and regulation into accessible stories about the structure of daily learning.
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Abdul Latif Jameel
Abdul Latif Jameel publishes long-form, research-led pieces on how emerging technologies and scientific advances reshape education, industry, and society. He writes for the Abdul Latif Jameel masthead at the intersection of learning, innovation, and applied science, with a focus on technology, skills, and the future of learning. He explains complex fields such as quantum sensing in clear, accessible terms, breaking down frontier science and tying it to real-world applications. His coverage links breakthroughs in sensing, data, and automation to training, curriculum, and lifelong learning. He treats education as an applied system connected to industry, policy, infrastructure, and human development. He reports in an analytical, explanatory style, using research, pilots, and large-scale initiatives to examine how technologies are implemented, evaluated, and scaled in learning and training environments.
Adria Iraheta
Adria Iraheta is a community-focused reporter at Denver7, distinct for centering students, families and residents in every story about schools, neighborhoods and public services. She covers how decisions by school districts, local agencies and public institutions land in daily life, with a particular focus on Aurora and Arapahoe County. Her beat sits at the intersection of education, community issues, public services, safety, infrastructure, health and climate, from job cuts in a school district to a new transit safety app, DMV outages, street changes and record heat waves. With a decade of local television reporting experience, she reports on the ground in specific local scenes, using plain language, direct questions to officials and clear explanations to show how policies, programs and changes affect the people who live, study and work in Colorado communities.
Alan J. Borsuk
Alan J. Borsuk stands out for connecting what happens in schools to the policy and political decisions behind them. He writes in-depth K-12 education analysis for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and serves as a senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette University Law School. His work focuses on Milwaukee Public Schools, school choice, literacy, teacher pipelines, and school accountability. He uses long-range perspective, detailed reporting, and structured analysis to explain how reforms unfold, why they stall, and what they mean for students and leaders. He has also written on vouchers, Teach for America, discipline, and teacher evaluation, drawing on decades as a reporter and editor on education and public policy.
Alexandra Hardle
Alexandra Hardle brings a watchdog lens to K-12 schools, using concrete incidents to map how district power, oversight and accountability work in real life. She covers K-12 education for The Arizona Republic, focusing on school systems, governance and the lived impact of policy on students, families and educators. Her reporting shows how school governance can fail students and staff and what that reveals about district culture. She often covers flashpoints, such as the Nazi salute fallout in the Deer Valley district, as windows into deeper dysfunction, tracking how leadership responds, how trust breaks down and how conflicts unfold in public meetings. Her work sits at the intersection of accountability reporting and community stories, grounded in public records, formal rules and multiple stakeholder perspectives, with clear, direct language that explains how institutions make decisions and how ordinary people experience them.