Cory Turner
Cory Turner reports and edits for the NPR Ed team. He's helped lead several of the team's signature reporting projects, including "The Truth About America's Graduation Rate" (2015), the groundbreaking "School Money" series (2016), "Raising Kings: A Year Of Love And Struggle At Ron Brown College Prep" (2017), and the NPR Life Kit parenting podcast with Sesame Workshop (2019). His year-long investigation with NPR's Chris Arnold, "The Trouble With TEACH Grants" (2018), led the U.S. Department of Education to change the rules of a troubled federal grant program that had unfairly hurt thousands of teachers.
Before coming to NPR Ed, Cory stuck his head inside the mouth of a shark and spent five years as Senior Editor of All Things Considered. His life at NPR began in 2004 with a two-week assignment booking for The Tavis Smiley Show.
In 2000, Cory earned a master's in screenwriting from the University of Southern California and spent several years reading gas meters for the So. Cal. Gas Company. He was only bitten by one dog, a Lhasa Apso, and wrote a bank heist movie you've never seen.
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Principals and superintendents talk to NPR about how students are faring four years after the pandemic shutdowns began. We also hear what schools plan to do when pandemic-related federal aid runs out.
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A bipartisan coalition of policy experts agreed on three big ways the federal government could do more to help our most vulnerable children and families.
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The department needs extra time to fix a mistake that could have hurt lower-income borrowers, but the delay means all students will have to wait longer for their college aid offers.
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In a surprise move, the Biden administration announced it is fast-tracking a change that will erase the debts of many federal student loan borrowers after just 10 years.
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The Education Department has made a big mistake with this year's FAFSA — one that could cost students financial aid they're entitled to. It's now grappling with how to implement a fix.
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What to make of all the student loan news this year? We have three takeaways, and a literary analogy (it's NPR afterall).
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First lady Jill Biden and former first lady Laura Bush have teamed up with Nickelodeon and iCivics to create kid-friendly videos to teach a new generation of children about civics and democracy.
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Until July 2025, parent PLUS borrowers can paperwork their way into a kinder, gentler repayment plan.
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After a three-and-a-half year pandemic pause, student loan payments are resuming in October. What does this mean for borrowers in good standing and those in default?
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For more than three years, no one had to pay their federal student loans. Payments are due again in October, but some borrowers are seeing their debts eliminated.