Valerie Strauss

Valerie Strauss is an education writer at The Washington Post, where she has worked for 30 years as an editor on the Foreign Desk and a reporter covering education. Born and raised in Miami, where she attended public schools, Strauss created The Post’s Answer Sheet blog, which focuses broadly on how America educates its children, publishing news stories, analyses, perspectives from outside writers, book excerpts and more. Before working at The Post, Strauss worked at the Reuters news service in Washington D.C., as national security editor and as a reporter covering foreign and military affairs on Capitol Hill. She was assistant foreign editor and a reporter at United Press International in Washington D.C. and Miami, and an editor at the Los Angeles Times.