Caroline Alphonso is The Globe and Mail’s education reporter, specializing in kindergarten to Grade 12. Her areas of interest include education policy, the intersection of politics and education, changes in curriculum and the impacts of socioeconomic status on schooling. In 2014, she was part of a team nominated for a National Newspaper Award for a series that measured and analyzed the impact of income inequality in Canada. When she is not reporting, you can find her at a local hockey arena cheering on her two young children.