Oct 7, 2015
Why do so few students from low-income families earn college degrees, even when they were academic standouts as high schoolers? And what can be done to help these students make a smoother transition to higher education?
Kavitha Cardoza tackles these questions in "Lower Income, Higher Ed", a new documentary for WAMU...
Sep 30, 2015
The Noble Street Network of Charter Schools in Chicago is taking a radical in-house approach to teacher preparation, recruiting and training its own recent graduates for spots at the front of the classroom.
Reporter Becky Vevea of WBEZ Chicago followed new teacher Jose Garcia through his first year at Noble's Rauner...
Sep 23, 2015
Who should be responsible for teaching public school students to not only tolerate, but also appreciate, different views on religion? Where’s the line between instruction and indoctrination? And how effectively are teachers and schools handling the potentially problematic subject matter?
Veteran reporter Linda...
Sep 16, 2015
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is on the road this week for his sixth annual back-to-school bus tour.
Journalists Alyson Klein (Education Week) and Lauren Camera (U.S. News & World Report) give EWA Radio the scoop on what this year's school visits say about the Obama administration's remaining...
Sep 9, 2015
In 2010, billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced an unprecedented gift: he would donate $100 million to the public school district of Newark, New Jersey (dollars that would eventually be matched by private partners).
Dale Russakoff, a longtime reporter for The Washington Post, spent more than three years...