USA Today’s massive look at the inadequate national and state tracking system for teachers who have abused kids continues to make the rounds (and has already generated some renewed interest in closing the existing loopholes.
The main story package is here: Broken discipline tracking systems let teachers flee troubled pasts. There have been several updates and add-ons, including this one from Wisconsin: Educators do little time for sex crimes.
If you’re interested, here are some other education-related examples of what’s called “digital storytelling” that I can find, riffing off a recent piece about what makes some of these multimedia presentations work better than others:
From the Miami Herald: Higher-Ed Hustle
From the Tampa Bay Times: Failure Factories
From EdWeek: Rural Schools Still Struggle to Get Connected
From Chattanooga Times Free Press: Code of Silence
There are a couple of examples that have education elements but are about other things (homelessness, gentrification):
From the New York Times: Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life
From NY Magazine: One Block
Some others that have been pointed out to me as great examples aren’t about education but may still be worth looking at for the way they use maps, animations, videos, and text:
From The Guardian: NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden’s surveillance revelations explained
From AP: 22 Years a Slave
From AP: Faded Grace
From the Washington Post: The perils at Great Falls
From the NYT: A Portrait of the Sandtown Neighborhood in Baltimore
If you’re curious about what makes these examples work (and make some other examples seem like a giant waste of time), take a look at my attempt to dissect the USA Today story with the help of a few experts here.
