Robby Korth
Education ReporterRobby Korth joined StateImpact Oklahoma in October 2019, focusing on education reporting.
He grew up in Ardmore, Oklahoma and Fayetteville, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Journalism degree. Robby has reported for several newspapers, most recently covering higher education and other topics for The Roanoke Times in southwest Virginia. While there, he co-created the podcast Septic, spending a year reporting on the story of a missing five-year-old boy, the discovery of his body in a septic tank a few days after his disappearance, and the subsequent court trial of his mother. Although the story was of particular interest to residents in Virginia, the podcast gained a larger audience and was named as a New and Noteworthy podcast by Apple Podcasts.
On a personal note, Robby loves trivia games and won his elementary school's geography bee in fifth grade.
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As Oklahoma colleges struggle to maintain enrollment, they're increasingly turning to other places to recruit new students. -
It's year three of the COVID-19 pandemic, so precautions in schools look familiar.
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More than 1,400 teachers will be teaching with an emergency certificate in the first days of school across Oklahoma.
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A week after Oklahoma’s State Board of Education downgraded Tulsa Public Schools for violations of the state’s so-called critical race theory ban, TPS is asking for its decision to be reversed.
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'Will you accept me as I am?': Tulsa teens discuss race, gender and interacting with peers at schoolStateImpact continues its listening tour with Oklahoma's youth. This time, we talked to a couple of Tulsa high school students about race, gender and how they interact with their peers at school.
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The first weekend in August is a sales tax holiday in Oklahoma.
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As Oklahoma gears up for a new school year, the State Department of Education is seeking college students to help middle schoolers in math.
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In a tense meeting Thursday, Oklahoma’s State Board of Education voted to approve the accreditation of more than 1,000 school sites across the state. But they spent a lot of that time lobbing thinly veiled political attacks at certain schools — and each other.
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Oklahoma lawmakers took a deep dive into the state's complicated education funding formula Tuesday morning. Find out what they had to say from a spending evaluation by the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency.
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As lawmakers, parents and school boards debate what kids should or shouldn’t learn in the classroom, teachers are still trying to find ways to lead tough conversations.
