Linh Bui
Linh Bui reports on how education policy and programs show up in daily life for students, families and educators, with a focus on concrete initiatives and the people they affect. She is an anchor and reporter for WTOP News and brings a broadcast background and classroom experience to her coverage of schools and learning. Her recent work ranges from legal battles tied to online harassment to school-based pilot programs, summer meal services and reimagined museums, giving a rounded view of how education systems work beyond the classroom walls.
Legal and accountability stories in education
Bui covers legal cases that shape the environment around schools and families, including defamation suits brought by a Virginia teacher and a mother after they were attacked online. In that story, she follows the cases through to successful verdicts, showing how legal remedies intersect with reputation, safety and the realities of social media for people connected to schools. Her reporting stays on the specifics of who was affected, what was said, and how the courts ruled, rather than abstract debate, which gives a clear picture of the stakes for educators and parents navigating public scrutiny. This attention to outcomes and individual impact marks her approach to accountability coverage on the education beat.
Keeping students in the classroom
Bui reports on school initiatives designed to keep students in class, such as a pilot program in District of Columbia schools that is successfully keeping students in the classroom. In that piece, she looks at the design and early results of the program, explaining how it changes day-to-day practice in schools and what it means for attendance and learning time. The coverage focuses on practical details — what the program does, how it is implemented, and how educators and students respond — rather than broad policy language. By centering these operational aspects, she gives communications and community stakeholders clear insight into how new approaches are actually working inside schools.
Student nutrition and out-of-school support
Bui devotes attention to student welfare beyond academics, including access to food when school is out. In a WTOP News piece on free summer meals for children in Prince George’s County, she explains that children can get free meals all summer and underscores that the goal is to bridge the food insecurity gap that occurs when school is out. The story highlights who the program serves and why it exists, connecting nutrition support directly to the rhythms of the school year and the needs of families. This strand of her work shows an interest in the full set of supports that surround students, not just classroom instruction.
Education spaces, history and technology
Bui also covers educational spaces and public history, such as a reimagined Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center that will utilize new technology. In that coverage, she links the new museum experience to Tubman’s life and rescue missions, showing how historical content is being refreshed for contemporary audiences through interactive tools and updated exhibits. The focus on both the educational mission and the visitor experience reflects an understanding of museums and learning centers as part of the broader education landscape. These stories complement her school-focused reporting by showing how history, technology and public institutions contribute to community learning.
Broadcast experience and teaching
Bui’s reporting is informed by extensive on-air experience and current teaching work. She most recently worked as a reporter and anchor at a local television station from 2013 to 2023, giving her a long track record of presenting complex stories in concise, accessible form. She now teaches at the University of Maryland, including a course on television reporting and production, which keeps her connected to emerging journalism practice and the next generation of reporters. That mix of broadcast experience and classroom teaching shows up in her WTOP News work through tight, structured storytelling and a clear emphasis on explaining how policies and programs operate on the ground.
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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.