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EWA​, the professional organization dedicated to ​strengthening the community of education ​writers and improving the ​quality of education coverage ​to better inform the public, hosts ​a weekly podcast featuring lively interviews with journalists.

Aug 24, 2015

The Washington Monthly's new college rankings are out, and this year's top performers are an eclectic mix of publicly funded institutions, innovative upstarts, and a handful of familiar Ivy League names.

Editor-in-Chief Paul Glastris tells EWA Radio how the magazine manages to calculate the "bang for the buck" value of...


Aug 19, 2015

In 2013, Jessica Lahey -- a middle school English teacher and mother of two boys -- asked a question: Why would happen if more parents let their children fail? Her blog post went viral, and inspired the new book “The Gift of Failure."

Lahey, who blogs for The New York Times and The Atlantic, spoke with EWA Radio about...


Aug 12, 2015

The field of education-only news organizations has gotten surprisingly crowded in recent years, with a surge in coverage of policy and practice at the city, state, and national levels. Who are the players behind the surge? Do the organizations advocate a point of view, or hew closer to traditional objective...


Aug 5, 2015

What if digital gaming in the classroom didn’t just make school more fun for kids, it actually made them smarter? That’s the premise of veteran education journalist Greg Toppo’s new book, “The Game Believes in You”.

Toppo, who covers education for USA Today, stepped away from covering the policy to go...