Leadership lurks as a critical but often-overlooked issue In nearly any story a reporter writes about education. This new guide by the Hechinger Institute, an independent organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University that is dedicated to enhancing the coverage of education journalism, arms reporters covering education issues with a deeper understanding of how leadership, or the lack of it, affects day-to-day events in schools and districts, provides basic questions to ask, and offers on-the-ground accounts by fellow journalists of how they are improving their own stories by asking the right questions about leadership.