Education Nation: Paul Nyhan

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Last May, NBC News kicked off Education Nation's On-the-Road tour, making stops in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. In each city, we talked with parents, students, educators, civic and business leaders to find out what they're doing to help improve education.

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About Paul Nyhan

Paul Nyhan is an award-winning journalist who spent the last two decades covering everything from Congress and the Federal Reserve to parenting and poverty for Bloomberg News, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Congressional Quarterly Inc. Currently, he writes about early education issues on Thrive by FiveWashington’s news blog, Birth to Thrive Online, and for other media outlets.

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