Meet Elizabeth Shockman
Elizabeth Shockman is an education reporter for MPR News covering K-12 education.
Elizabeth started her journalism career at The Moscow Times in Moscow. She also worked at Reuters and the BBC in Russia before returning to Minnesota where she worked at Public Radio International, WCCO and as a producer at MPR News.
Elizabeth’s reporting has received several distinctions and awards, including first place in the education feature category from the Public Media Journalists Association, multiple Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards, and an award of merit from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association’s Eric Sevareid Awards.
Elizabeth obtained her K-12 education through a combination of public school, one year of private school and eight years of home schooling. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Elizabeth lives in a suburb of St. Paul with her family, including two grade-school kids and an overabundance of houseplants.
For book recommendations, stories and occasional garden photos, you can find Elizabeth on Instagram. She’s also on LinkedIn, Threads and BlueSky.
Recent Contributions
- Minnesota graduation rates reach historic high after pandemic slide
- Minnesota libraries warn federal cuts may hurt services
- Schools across Minnesota face ‘reckoning’ as they struggle to close budget gaps
- Minnesota sues Trump administration over threat to withhold funding from schools
- ‘A better direction’: Minnesota starts mandatory training for police in schools
- Minnesota pushes back on Trump demand to end DEI or lose school funding
- Minneapolis school board set to unveil cuts to close $75 million budget gap
- Minnesota homeschooling leaped during COVID and counts continue to climb
- Minnesota, 21 other states sue to halt dismantling of U.S. Education Department
- USDA cuts farm-to-school food funding in Minnesota