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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 31, 2017

Public school students in Houston -- the nation’s seventh-largest district -- had expected to start a new academic year this week. Instead, many of their campuses were converted into emergency shelters, and many students as well as educators are now homeless. Shelby Webb of The Houston Chronicle discusses the latest...


Aug 22, 2017

In the aftermath of the white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville, Va., some universities are under pressure to take action against students who attend rallies organized by hate groups.. Nick Roll of Inside Higher Ed discusses the situation and how postsecondary institutions are responding. How do universities...


Aug 15, 2017

Tovin Lapin of The Hechinger Report visited Greenville, Miss., to examine how President Trump’s proposed budget cuts could impact rural school communities that depend heavily on federal aid for after-school and student nutrition programs. What does research show about the connections between connecting students’...


Aug 8, 2017

Journalist Kelly Field recently won a top honor at EWA’s National Seminar for her compelling series, “From the Reservation to College,” on the education of Native American students. Field’s coverage for The Chronicle of Higher Education -- supported by an EWA Reporting Fellowship -- follows several students from...


Aug 1, 2017

Lisa Miller, an associate editor at New York magazine, discusses her new profile of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. Miller discusses the unwillingness of people close to DeVos to discuss her on the record -- including current Department of Education employees  -- made this one of the most challenging profiles...