Patrick Wall

Patrick Wall is a Senior National Reporter for Chalkbeat. He was previously interim bureau chief and a reporter for Chalkbeat New York. Patrick started his career as a fourth-grade teacher in Chicago Public Schools before earning a master’s degree in journalism from CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. He’s been published in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, and DNAinfo, among other publications. He was a Spencer Education-Reporting Fellow at Columbia University and won a national beat reporting award from the Education Writers Association.

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COVID-19

More than politics: New studies help explain why some schools reopened while others stayed virtual

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. To critics, keeping schools closed during the pandemic was not only a colossal blunder — it was...

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