Caroline Bermudez

Caroline Bermudez is chief storyteller at the Charter School Growth Fund and former senior writer at Education Post. Bermudez has been a journalist for almost 10 years. She was staff editor at The Chronicle of Philanthropy, covering the nonprofit world, with a particular focus on foundations and high net-worth giving. She has interviewed prominent business, political and philanthropic leaders including Colin Powell, Ronald Perelman, Carl Icahn, Patty Stonesifer and Eli Broad. She also assisted with The Chronicle's Philanthropy 50, its annual ranking of America's most generous donors. A proud graduate of Chicago Public Schools, she has a B.A. in history from Swarthmore College.

Posts By Caroline Bermudez

Politics

Coffee Break: Third Way's Lanae Hatalsky on Staying Chill, the Teacher Wars and Her Choice for Hillary's Running Mate

Lanae Erickson Hatalsky is vice president for the social policy and politics program at Third Way, a think tank in Washington, D.C. Lanae’s job is to propose centrist solutions to the often heated...

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California

We Can't Even Write a Complete Sentence and Here's Why

One of my favorite articles makes me laugh and cringe. What Corporate America Can’t Build: A Sentence describes the plight of top companies spending billions of dollars to send their well-educated...

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Math

If I'd Had Common Core I Probably Wouldn't Suck at Math Now

I’m terrible at math. In seventh grade, I became aware of my poor math preparation when I entered a team math competition against other Catholic schools in the Chicagoland area. At least half of the...

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New York

The Privileged Doth Protest Too Much: Part II

Part I of this post outlined what luxury problems look like in education. In this second installment, I discuss how a sense of entitlement allows educational inequality to persist and belittles those...

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