Will Huntsberry
Will Huntsberry is an assistant producer in NPR's elections unit, where he produced a piece about Don Gonyea's favorite campaign trail playlists, reported on the one place in Washington where former House Speaker John Boehner could feel like "a regular guy," and other stories that get beneath the surface of American politics.
He came to NPR in 2014 as Kroc Fellow, after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Since joining NPR, he has worked on the education desk, reported at KQED in San Francisco, and was part of the team that covered the 2015 church massacre in Charleston, S.C.
Previously, he worked for the Wall Street Journal and covered Raleigh, N.C. for a variety of news outlets.
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Millions of Americans rely on rural hospitals for emergency medical care. But in the last five years, these facilities have been shutting down more frequently than in previous years. A group of activists from across the country are walking nearly 300 miles from North Carolina to Washington, D.C. to draw lawmakers' attention.
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A Wellesley College and University of Maryland study finds Sesame Street has a big impact on how well kids do in school. Children who watch the show are less likely to fall behind in later grades.
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In science classrooms across the country, middle-schoolers will take part in an iconic activity this year: frog dissection. -
Poverty is the backdrop to so many discussions about learning. But do we have a good way to measure it in schools? -
The number of students being held back has been cut nearly in half, and researchers have no idea why. -
A first-grader's quick doodle can tell researchers plenty about what's happening — or not happening — at home.
