Eric Casey
Eric Casey tracks how campus decisions, real estate deals, and policy shifts reshape the education landscape for the Worcester Business Journal. His coverage stands out for treating schools and colleges as business actors in a regional economy, not just academic institutions or community fixtures.
Business of campuses and institutional real estate
Casey focuses on colleges and schools at the moment they face major business inflection points, especially when real estate is at stake. In his reporting on the planned sale of the Anna Maria College campus after the school’s shutdown, he details how the acreage, location, and potential new uses fit into the wider Central Massachusetts property market and development pipeline. Across his work, he follows how institutional closures, consolidations, and expansions turn into real estate listings, redevelopment opportunities, or zoning questions, and he treats campuses as assets that investors, developers, and municipalities all scrutinize. That lens puts education stories into the same frame as commercial property coverage, with attention to brokers, buyers, and long-term site strategy.
Education as part of the regional economy
Casey’s education beat is grounded in the idea that schools and colleges are major employers, service buyers, and landlords. His stories link institutional decisions to jobs, local vendor relationships, neighborhood stability, and municipal tax bases. When he writes about a college marketing its campus for sale, he connects that move to financial pressures, enrollment realities, and the downstream effects on nearby businesses and housing. He shows how education institutions participate in broader trends such as shifting student demand, cost containment, and the search for new revenue, and he uses those forces to frame each development as part of a regional economic story rather than an isolated campus event.
Emphasis on closures, transitions, and ripple effects
A recurring thread in Casey’s work is institutional transition: shuttered campuses, program cuts, and leadership or ownership changes that force a rethink of how property and people will be redeployed. He gravitates toward moments of uncertainty, asking what happens to faculty and staff, what becomes of specialized facilities, and which organizations might step into vacated space. That focus lets him highlight the ripple effects of education decisions on surrounding communities, from potential new uses for large tracts of land to shifts in commuter patterns and demand for local services. His stories often function as early warning signals for businesses and civic leaders who need to understand how a campus turning over will alter the local landscape.
Data-aware, accessibly written reporting
Casey writes in clear business prose, but he brings in specific numbers and structural details to anchor his stories. In campus-sale coverage, he notes acreage, property features, and the scale of the institution to give readers a concrete sense of the asset and its potential repositioning. He draws on financial context, market conditions, and comparable deals when they illuminate why an education property is being marketed or reimagined. At the same time, he maintains a human dimension by including the implications for students, faculty, and nearby residents, blending data and narrative to show both the balance-sheet and community sides of an education story.
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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.