The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "education" ...
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Examining For-Profit Colleges
This tipsheet contains a guide on how to begin your investigation into the financial records and habits of for-profit colleges.
Tags: For Profit College; College; University; Education
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From community colleges to universities: Investigating higher ed with the help of students
McBride's Powerpoint is chock full of great tips and story ideas on how you can cover your local higher education institution with the help of journalism students.
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Investigating Higher Education
Use this tipsheet from award winning reporter, Perez, when you need to cover the higher education beat. She gives great resources for where to look and story ideas for the data you receive.
Tags: higher education; property records; IRS; grants; student federal loans
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Investigating Higher Education--Powerpoint
Perez's Powerpoint presentation offers great examples of resources used and graphics on how to display your findings including personnel investigations, memos, SEC docs and more. Perez was part of the IRE award winning team for "On Shaky Ground".
Tags: higher education; school safety; EDGAR; PACER; Conflict of interest
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The Business of training
Bergantino's Powerpoint describes how newsrooms and nonprofits can add to their bottom line by offering training. Included are great tips and questions to ask yourself.
Tags: training; education; newsrooms; nonprofits
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Data U: The Databases You Need to Cover Higher Ed
Higher Education is a hot button topic that affects everyone. This tipsheet features databases, story ideas, and tips for covering universities.
Tags: Higher Education
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Integrating CAR
Dowdell and Wert gives advice on the importance of collecting data and the benefits of setting up independent databases, and offer tips on specific subpoints to cover under topics such as Sports, Crime/Public Safety, Education, Business, etc.
Tags: data; databases; investigative methods
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Covering Education: When there's not enough time or money.
McBride gives tips on how to cover education and colleges on a tight budget.
Tags: education beat; higher education
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Downloading the Data on Teachers
"Crunching teacher performance data is one of the hottest -- and most controversial -- areas in education reporting right now." Felch offers helpful tips on how to utilize that data to find out who's cheating who.
Tags: test scores; teachers; elementary education; teacher performance
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Higher Ed: Following the money on campus
Utilize the web and these tips provided by reporters all over the country to follow the money on your college campus. Search public records such as the Dept. of Ed's data of student who default on loans and the SEC's data on for-profit colleges.
Tags: for-profit college; higher education; student loan default