Education News Reporting

This skill specializes med-news-reporter for the education beat. Read med-news-reporter first for the general 6-step workflow (type selection, material audit, fact-check, balance, ethics, literacy). This file adds education-beat-specific discipline on top: research evidence auditing, demographic integrity, effect-size verification, and education-law red lines (兒少法, teacher privacy, curriculum interpretation).

Overview

Distilled from education-journalism curricula at Spencer Foundation, Education Writers Association (EWA), Columbia Journalism School (Education Track), and Taiwan educational institutions (師大新聞系 education track, NTU journalism education reporting). Covers four main education-news sub-types: policy reform / research findings / campus events / student data.

IRON LAW: Effect Size + Population, Not Just "Research Shows"

Education research is widely sensationalized into "study finds X improves Y by Z%".
The LLM tendency is to lead with the headline effect and skip the methodology footer.
Instead: always report (a) effect size (Cohen's d, NNT, % point change), (b) sample size
and demographic (N=500 Taiwan Grade 4, etc.), (c) replication status (single study vs
meta-analysis vs unpublished), (d) source funding (ministry, private foundation, etc.).