Harvard’s Nieman Foundation announced their 2006-7 fellows and a few local folks were honored: (from the release)
Gina Acosta, editorial page copy editor at The Washington Post, will study the fiscal consequences of U.S. immigration policy and the participation of ethnic and religious minorities in public life.Claudio Sanchez, national education correspondent for National Public Radio, will study educational policies and practices that have failed Mexican immigrant children — legal and illegal — to better understand why so many are growing up alienated and unskilled.Andrea McCarren, investigative reporter at WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C.,