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Sarah Darville

Sarah Darville is Chalkbeat's national editor. She was previously the bureau chief for Chalkbeat New York and a Google Journalism Fellow.

Brown v. Board

National
March 27, 2018

In her own words: Remembering Linda Brown, who was at the center of America’s school segregation battles

Linda Brown, whose name became part of American history through the Brown v. Board of Education case, died Sunday. She became the center of the…
National
March 21, 2018

Discipline and discrimination debates in D.C.

Welcome to Chalkbeat’s national newsletter! We’re Matt Barnum and Sarah Darville, Chalkbeat’s national team. Our goal is to help you make sense of the messy,…

Q&A

National
March 19, 2018

‘Everything is different now’: Stoneman Douglas librarian reflects one month after shooting

"In general, kids still need to talk."
National
March 14, 2018

Walking out, speaking up

Welcome to Chalkbeat’s national newsletter! We’re Matt Barnum and Sarah Darville, Chalkbeat’s national team. Our goal is to help you make sense of the messy,…

walkout

National
Updated March 14, 2018

What it looked like as students across America walked out of school to protest gun violence

The event was rare in its national scope.

media blitz

National
March 12, 2018

Making the rounds on TV, Betsy DeVos says she hasn’t visited struggling schools and draws sharp criticism

Betsy DeVos has visited all kinds of schools since she took office last year. But one kind of school has been left out, she said Sunday: schools that are struggling.

national newsletter

National
March 7, 2018

DeVos + Puerto Rico + Texas funding = SXSW day two

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took questions from a somewhat rowdy crowd, voucher advocacy group EdChoice has its eyes on Puerto Rico, and what we're reading today.

wtf

New York
March 1, 2018

Alberto Carvalho stuns New York City by turning down chancellor job after first accepting it

It's a humiliating setback for New York City and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

newsroom

National
February 23, 2018

How KIPP’s observers and allies are reacting to co-founder Mike Feinberg’s firing

A day after KIPP's Mike Feinberg was fired, his colleagues are grappling with their shock over the allegations that led to his termination.
National
February 22, 2018

Mike Feinberg, KIPP co-founder, fired after misconduct investigation

KIPP found “credible evidence” to back up allegations that Feinberg abused a student in the late 1990s, its leaders said Thursday. Feinberg denies them.
National
February 21, 2018

After Parkland

Welcome to Chalkbeat’s national newsletter. We’re Matt Barnum and Sarah Darville, Chalkbeat’s national team. Our goal is to help you make sense of the messy,…

Shifting strategy

National
February 13, 2018

To fight poverty in U.S., Bill and Melinda Gates say they may move beyond education

The couple’s philanthropy has had an outsized influence on U.S. schools over the last two decades.
National
February 7, 2018

Bill Gates’ curriculum conundrum

Welcome to Chalkbeat’s national newsletter! We’re Matt Barnum and Sarah Darville, Chalkbeat’s national team. Our goal is to help you make sense of the messy,…
National
January 31, 2018

The selling of ‘personalized learning’

Welcome to Chalkbeat’s national newsletter! We’re Matt Barnum and Sarah Darville, Chalkbeat’s national team. Our goal is to help you make…
National
January 24, 2018

Chalkbeat’s national newsletter: The new testing debates look a lot like the old testing debates

Our goal is to help you make sense of the messy, fascinating, often controversial efforts to improve education for poor students across the country.