RiShawn Biddle is editor of Dropout Nation, a commentary website on education reform, as well as an award-winning editorialist and communications consultant. The co-author of A Byte at the Apple: Rethinking Education Data for the Post-NCLB Era, Biddle was previously an editorial writer for the Indianapolis Star covering education and urban affairs. There, he wrote and oversaw three award-winning special projects revealing the depths of the nation’s dropout crisis and exposing judicial abuse against alleged juvenile offenders.