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KJB: Controversial NCLB Letter Part 4 kjbjournalism 117 views Bristol Herald Courier Education Reporter Khristopher J. Brooks has developments in the controversial "No Child Left Behind" letter that went home to parents in the Bristol...
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KJB: Controversial NCLB Letter Part 1 kjbjournalism 133 views Bristol Herald Courier Education Reporter Khristopher J. Brooks discusses a controversial "No Child Left Behind" letter that went home to parents in the Bristol City School...
KJB: Seeking Substitutes Part 2 kjbjournalism 94 views Bristol Herald Courier Education Reporter Khristopher J. Brooks revisits urgent need for substitute teachers in the Bristol City Tennessee School System.
KJB: Seeking Substitutes Part 1 kjbjournalism 67 views Bristol Herald Courier Education Reporter Khristopher J. Brooks discusses urgent need for substitute teachers in the Bristol City Tennessee School System.
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KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS is a veteran reporter and graduate student at New York University, where he is currently studying Literary Reportage.

Before coming to New York, Mr. Brooks worked as the state higher education reporter for the Omaha World-Herald. His responsibilities included covering public and private universities and community colleges in Nebraska and western Iowa. Brooks has also worked as the business and education reporter for the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier. Mr. Brooks gained notoriety in 2007 after reporting how Bristol school officials released a controversial letter attached to student report cards. In 2007 Mr. Brooks won second place in education writing from the Virginia Press Association for a critical article on the federal No Child Left Behind program. Mr. Brooks is a former Associated Press writer, and his byline has been published in newspapers and magazines all over the country.

Mr. Brooks draws inspiration from writers like Tom Hallman, Jr., Thomas French, Christine Rook and Leonard Pitts, Jr. He believes that exceptional writing, prose that really stir emotions or actions, will keep readers engaged.

Mr. Brooks began his journalism career in 2000. He holds a bachelor's of science degree in News/Editorial Journalism and General Political Science from Central Michigan University. Mr. Brooks is a 2006 Chips Quinn Scholar. He has received countless hours of education research and policy analysis training from the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association. In 2009 he was considered one of the best beat reporting bloggers in the nation.

Mr. Brooks's hobbies include playing basketball, reading and learning. For fun, he likes to travel, write, exercise, toy with small electronics and pretend he's a page designer. A Detroit native, Mr. Brooks adamantly reads John Steinbeck, Gay Talese, Willa Cather and other great American authors.

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Detroit, Mich.

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United States

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Journalist

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Gannett, Journal Register, the Associated Press, Media General - almost everywhere

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Romulus High School, Central Michigan University, New York University

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basketball, soccer, weight lifting, reading, writing, drinking coffee, having intellectual conversations, figuring out how to better the media industry, dreaming big, kissing cute women, bathing and sleeping

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