Peter Schmidt

Peter Schmidt is a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he covers affirmative action, state and federal higher-education policy, education research, historically black colleges and universities, and connections between schools and colleges. He previously covered school desegregation, urban education, immigrant education, and education research for Education Week. He also has reported for the Associated Press, the Detroit Free Press, the Northern Virginia Daily, and the Ann Arbor News, and he has written for the Weekly Standard, Teacher Magazine, and Detroit Monthly magazine. His work has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Education Writers Association, the Virgina Press Association, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. His coverage of affirmative action won a special citation for beat reporting from the Education Writers Association in 2006.