Maura Turcotte

Clown about town. Program specialist @EdWriters. Previously @postandcourier, @nytimes, @medillschool. she/her

[Maura Turcotte @mcturcotte]

@saragregory what a cutie 😍

[JP @jpbrammer]

turned my music off on the subway to overhear an argument

[John Myers @johnmyers]

I don’t aspire to be a media watchdog, the glass houses of my 29 years in daily journalism, etc.

But when I woke up to *this* as the lead online article for America’s most powerful news organization, I winced. And it’s bothered me all day, because of its sweeping assertions. 🧵

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Bombings. Internet blackouts. Supply shortages.

These are only some of the challenges faced by several medical students and trainees who are working 24-hour shifts in one of the last remaining hospitals in Gaza. https://t.co/DxwfuwOHD1

[The 74 @The74]

Students in majority Black schools faced out-of-school suspension rates of 78.8 per 1,000 students in the 2022-23 school year compared to 11.9 suspensions per 1,000 students for those in predominantly white schools. @Jo_Napolitano reports https://t.co/Bzl2yQkrro

[The Associated Press @AP]

School choice and a history of segregation collide as one Florida county shutters its rural schools https://t.co/teDPj9z6fi

[Sonia Weiser weischoice.bsky.social @weischoice]

I want to write a piece about the myth of transferable skills and how "relevant" work experience has become so unbelievably specific that more and more people are confined to the career path they got on at the beginning of their adulthood.

[Natalie Fertig @natsfert]

im just a girl

standing in front of east coasters

asking them to cross the rocky mountains more often

[Suzy Exposito @HexPositive]

So tacky

[Americana at Brand Memes @americanamemes]

This is gonna be the Olympic Flame during the 2028 LA Olympics:

[AL.com @aldotcom]

In Russellville, Ala., Superintendent Heath Grimes won national recognition for serving the city’s growing Hispanic student body. Then the district showed him the door.

✍️: @KavithaCardoza. Prod. w/ @greezbock, @aledlab, @palabranahj + @hechingerreport.
https://t.co/leDb0R26WG

[Michael Elsen-Rooney @MichaelElsenRoo]

A trend that, if it continues, would dramatically reshape NYC's school system. Here are @NYC_SCA's most recent school enrollment projections, which predict a PreK-12 population of 662,000 in 2032 -- a drop of 230,000 students in 10 years.

[P.E. Moskowitz @_pem_pem]

*watching an event i hadn’t heard of until 20 minutes ago* if the US doesn’t win this i will kill myself

[Saba Hamedy @saba_h]

lol if i wrote something about a work trip to new york in this tone i would get roasted...
https://t.co/tWlj1UHdoL

[Paolo Uggetti @PaoloUggetti]

for the LA Olympics they should just parade everyone on the 405

[Jill Gutowitz @jillboard]

NOT THE CHALLENGERS SUBPLOT ON THE OPENING CEREMONIES

[Kat Stafford @kat__stafford]

Some newsrooms continue to view race & gender coverage as “nice to have” rather than essential coverage areas that are a constant throughline all of what we cover. Now, we’re in the midst of an election where both are front and center in ways we’ve never seen before.

[Natalie Fertig @natsfert]

Just thinking about how the LA Times gutted their DC bureau the year that a Californian mighg head the Democratic presidential ticket