The State of Education in America
Chautauqua Lecture Series 2020 • 1h 3m
Originally broadcast at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, August 7, 2020.
Moriah Balingit brings her experience and knowledge of national education issues to Chautauqua.
Balingit covers national education issues for The Washington Post. Before coming to The Post, she covered crime, city hall and crime in city hall for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She also wrote about former mill towns and juvenile murder convicts, and covered a mass shooting at a psychiatric hospital.
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