How I Did the Story: "An Empty Desk Epidemic" by David Jackson & Gary Marx

Name: How I Did the Story: "An Empty Desk Epidemic" by David Jackson & Gary Marx
Uploaded: 2013-06-13T02:22:16+00:00
Duration: 7 min 15 s
Channel: Education Writers Association
Description: David Jackson and Gary Marx of the Chicago Tribune talk about the 10-year reporting project that became EWA's Grand Prize-winning project, “An Empty-Desk Epidemic." The expansive story demonstrated how students in Chicago's public schools racked up missed days of school even as early as kindergarten. Recorded at EWA's 66th National Seminar, May 4, 2013 at Stanford University

David Jackson and Gary Marx of the Chicago Tribune talk about the 10-year reporting project that became EWA's Grand Prize-winning project, “An Empty-Desk Epidemic." The expansive story demonstrated how students in Chicago's public schools racked up missed days of school even as early as kindergarten.   Recorded at EWA's 66th National Seminar, May 4, 2013 at Stanford University