ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Richard Whitmire, a veteran newspaper reporter and editorial writer, writes education commentaries that appear frequently in newspapers, journals, and magazines. In 2009 he was the Project Journalist for the Broad Prize for Urban Education and the writer for a New America Foundation project on developmental education in community colleges. He recently served as president of the National Education Writers Association.

After graduating from the College of Wooster in Ohio, Whitmire taught high school English and then held several newspaper jobs in upstate New York before moving to Washington, D.C., to take a job handling special projects with Gannett News Service. After working on the design and launch of USA Today he returned to ...

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