Jack McCurdy

California Correspondent,

Chronicle of Higher Education

Jack McCurdy was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times for 20 years and was California correspondent for the Chronicle of Higher Education from 1980 to 2000. He was also a member of the Times’ staff who won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Watts Riots in 1965, and in 1968 was awarded the “International Reading Association Print Media Award” in recognition of outstanding reporting in newspapers, magazines, and wire services. He is the author of two books and several extensive papers dealing with education issues.

updated 1995

Contributing topics

Access, quality & alignment in early childhood education

Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health

Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes

Publications by Jack McCurdy

November 1995

Leading the Way

California's History in Child Care and Development

Another new curriculum manual is Kids' Time: A School Age Care Program Guide, which grew out of discussions at a national conference on Block Grant funding about the lack of materials on school-age childcare, an expanding field for latchkey…