Sep 11, 2014

EWA's Emily Richmond and Mikhail Zinshteyn speak with Annie Gilbertson of KPCC, Southern California's NPR affiliate, about her investigation into the Los Angeles Unified School District's $1.2 billion investment in classroom technology.

Aug 28, 2014

EWA's Emily Richmond and Mikhail Zinshteyn speak with Money Magazine education reporter Kim Clark about the publication's first-ever college rankings, which focus on the return-on-investment factor of earning a degree from a particular institution. 

Aug 22, 2014

A Chicago Tribune investigation turns up instances of lawmakers intervening in teacher licensing decisions on behalf of their friends and donors. Tribune education reporter Diane Rado speaks with EWA's Emily Richmond and Mikhail Zinshteyn about her ongoing coverage of licensing issues, and what it means for local...

Aug 6, 2014

Eighty percent of Texas prisoners are high school dropouts, a state known for its zero-tolerance approach to school discipline. And as more research finds a link between suspensions and quitting on school early, the evidence is mounting that keeping kids from learning for behavioral reasons hurts their academic...

Jul 30, 2014

Joy Resmovits of the Huffington Post discusses her story (written with colleague Christina Wilkie) about the Charles G. Koch Foundation's creation of Youth Entrepreneurs: a public high school finance course being used in schools in the midwest and south, which was designed to introduce students to free market theory and...