Cory Turner
Cory Turner reports and edits for the NPR Ed team. He's helped lead several of the team's signature reporting projects, including "The Truth About America's Graduation Rate" (2015), the groundbreaking "School Money" series (2016), "Raising Kings: A Year Of Love And Struggle At Ron Brown College Prep" (2017), and the NPR Life Kit parenting podcast with Sesame Workshop (2019). His year-long investigation with NPR's Chris Arnold, "The Trouble With TEACH Grants" (2018), led the U.S. Department of Education to change the rules of a troubled federal grant program that had unfairly hurt thousands of teachers.
Before coming to NPR Ed, Cory stuck his head inside the mouth of a shark and spent five years as Senior Editor of All Things Considered. His life at NPR began in 2004 with a two-week assignment booking for The Tavis Smiley Show.
In 2000, Cory earned a master's in screenwriting from the University of Southern California and spent several years reading gas meters for the So. Cal. Gas Company. He was only bitten by one dog, a Lhasa Apso, and wrote a bank heist movie you've never seen.
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The Trump administration unveiled a sweeping plan to dismantle large swaths of the Department of Education, shifting some of its key work to other agencies.
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If the government shutdown extends beyond Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children could be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. -
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded more than $150 million in grants to train K-12 teachers in civics education, but what does nonpartisan civics look like in these hyper-partisan times?
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Multiple sources tell NPR that as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education. -
50 years after Jaws nearly destroyed Spielberg's career, a new exhibit spotlights the groundbreaking film. -
New data reveals a growing problem; millions of federal student loan borrowers are at serious risk of default.
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A federal judge found the Trump administration acted illegally when it froze more than $2.2 billion in research funding for Harvard University. The White House says it will appeal the decision.
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A California school district fights chronic absenteeism in kindergarten by helping parents decide whether their kid is too sick to go to school.
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NPR's Books We Love list has lots of great reads, as recommended by our staffers, including Stephen Graham Jones' latest novel and Fredrik Backman's summer story about the friendship of four teens.
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In just six months, the Trump administration has profoundly reshaped federal education policy.
