Towards Better Education Journalism

I'm heading to New Orleans Thursday afternoon for the Education Writers Assocation's annual conference, where I'm looking forward to a number of the panels (and happily anticipating participating in a panel on education blogs). The agenda in PDF is here: 2006 AGENDA

Most of all, however, I'm looking forwards to learning more about what it might take for education journalism to improve -- a topic about which I'm deeply interested and somewhat concerned. As I've said before, the education writing I admire most is often not written by education writers, and that doesn't seem right.