OTHER PROJECTS AND REPORTING BY BENJAMIN HEROLD
National Reporting
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How the Fight for America’s Suburbs Started in Public Schools
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Suburban Public Schools Are Now Majority-Nonwhite. The Backlash Has Already Begun
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A New Teacher at 50: Inside the Struggle to Rebuild America’s Black Teaching Workforce
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Suburban Schools Saw Huge Drops in White Enrollment During the Pandemic
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How Schools Survived Two Years of COVID-19
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A Virtual Mess: Inside Colorado’s Largest Online Charter School
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The Slowest Internet in Mississippi: Rural Schools Still Struggle to Get Connected
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Bet Big on Personalized Learning
Philadelphia Reporting
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Faced With Massive Budget Cuts, Philadelphia Plans To Shutter 23 Schools
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Philadelphia School Cheating Concerns Met With 'Baffling' Response
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In Philadelphia, Few Students Are on the Path to College
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Still Full of Life, 114-Year-Old Philadelphia School Faces Closure
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Neighborhood High Schools Waning as Parents’ Choices Expand in Phila.
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Playing With Fire
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Lorene Cary: A Reading Life
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No Diploma, No Job
FIRST PERSON (2008)
Hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "powerfully intimate," "full of surprises," and "simply required viewing for those who care about our country's future," First Person unfolds through the eyes of six promising Philly teens navigating the absurdity of a school system that fails to graduate almost half its students. The debut film of journalist and writer Benjamin Herold, First Person won awards for Best Documentary and Best First-Time Film Director at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival and prompted an award-winning outreach and public awareness campaign.