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Kate Rix

Oakland
As seen in: MSN, Yahoo Life, The Guardian, The Washington Post, USA Today, Yahoo News, NBC News, SFGate, Taylor & Francis Online, U.S. News and World Report and
Covers:  Higher education, land conservation, science and medical research, academic research, criminal law.
Doesn't Cover: Sports, entertainment.
Freelance reporter in Oakland. I cover vulnerable people, equity, education.

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Grant writing. Journalism. Marketing white papers.

Kate Rix’s Journalist Portfolio

How songbirds may help build a better hearing aid

How songbirds may help build a better hearing aid

(Medical Xpress)-Untreated hearing loss can have devastating and alienating repercussions on a person's life:…

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Healthy elders may hold key to fighting cancer

Healthy elders may hold key to fighting cancer

New evidence from the Scripps Research Institute suggests that some seniors may have successfully fought canc…

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What We Know About Vouchers

What We Know About Vouchers

White paper exploring efforts to implement school vouchers in the United States and the potential impact of t…

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Students With Disabilities Are Spending More Time in Mainstream Classrooms Original

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By Kate Rix
| The 74 Verified
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter States have made steady progress including students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms, an independent federal report finds, but lawmakers and advocates worry that headway will be lost as federal special education offices move from the Department of Education to Health and Human Services.
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Students With Disabilities Are Spending More Time in Mainstream Classrooms

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By Kate Rix
| Flipboard
Technology 1 hour ago Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem Fortune - Eva Roytburg • 1h On Sunday afternoon, while the rest of the world’s eyes were glued to the World Cup final, an AI model resolved a problem that had tortured … Apps 2 hours ago 111 Hidden iOS Tricks Most iPhone Users Completely Miss PCMag - Eric Griffith • 2h The Apple phone in your hand is incredibly powerful.
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Key to helping boys in school: Make them feel safe to be themselves

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By Kate Rix
| Miami Herald Verified
OAKLAND, Calif. - It's a Friday morning at Oakland Unity Middle School, a public charter school nestled between residential buildings in East Oakland, and Austin Razavi is announcing the morning advisory prompt. "I'll give you 10, 15 seconds to think about it," Razavi said to the group of 15 mixed-grade middle school boys who had arranged desks into a messy circle. "Then each of you share something most people don't know about you." There was some shuffling and silence.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writer for City on a Hill, the weekly paper at U.C. Santa Cruz.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes at the college paper.

How is social media changing news?

For the worse. Social media cater to short attention spans and worst impulses. It doesn't foster thought or reflection.