Erin is the former editorial director at the Center on Reinventing Public Education and a current guest author. Before joining CRPE in 2022, Erin was a national education reporter at USA TODAY and a reporter and editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She published an award-winning series about the damaging effects of students switching schools through an O’Brien Fellowship at Marquette University. And she wrote about the evolution of the school-voucher movement as a Spencer Fellow at Columbia University. Erin has worked as a coach, public speaker and journalism instructor, and she’s a contributing producer on “Out of the Picture,” a documentary film about arts journalism. Erin has a BA in communications from Murray State University and a masters in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
The debate over how schools should teach about race heightened this week when the College Board released a framework for a new Advanced Placement course in African-American studies that reduced some of the content from a pilot version — content supported by hundreds of Black scholars and progressives but criticized by prominent conservatives.