Nick Anderson is a higher education writer for The Post. Previously, he was education editor, supervising coverage of regional and national education news. In other stints, he was national education writer and deputy education editor, and an assistant editor on the Virginia desk, participating in team coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings that won the newspaper’s staff a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. Before joining The Post in 2005, he was a congressional correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Montgomery County, Md. with his wife and three children.