Chastity Pratt is the national education editor at The Washington Post. With decades of experience covering schools across America, she is passionate about the subject and is doggedly focused on ensuring reporting maintains urgency and explores the issues that readers are talking about. Prior to joining The Post last year, she was the education bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal, a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and covered education at the Detroit Free Press, Newsday and The Oregonian. Over the years, she has helped train students and journalists for Harvard College, the Education Writers Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors. Chastity serves on the advisory board for the journalism program at the Harvard Extension School.

Pratt briefed National Press Foundation fellows in April 2025: How to Cover Schools Amid Dismantling of Education Department.