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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In her confirmation hearing, Linda McMahon handled tough questions from Democrats, and affirmed President Trump's plans to shrink, and potentially eliminate, the department. -
New research drills down on poor student achievement and notes some school districts that are beating the odds. -
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is responsible for gathering data on a wide range of topics, including research-backed teaching practices and the state of U.S. student achievement. -
The House education committee is charged with forging consensus on the nation's education policy. But at a recent meeting, partisan differences were on full display. -
The department tracks student achievement, manages college financial aid and sends K-12 schools money to support students with disabilities and lower-income communities, among other things. -
The Trump administration is preparing to issue an executive action in the coming weeks that would attempt to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.
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While only Congress can shutter the department, the president is reportedly considering executive action to severely scale back its responsibilities and staffing. -
There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling. -
We asked more than a dozen educators, researchers, advocates and experts how they would grade Biden's education legacy. He got two F's, no A's and lots of votes in the middle. -
Eight million federal student loan borrowers are waiting for the courts to decide if the repayment plan they're enrolled in -- President Biden's SAVE plan -- is essentially so generous that it's illegal.
