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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.

Sep 29, 2008

Gloria Ladson-Billings is a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an author of many works and an expert on the education of low-income and minority students.

She was the second speaker of the highlight session of "Teaching to a New Nation," EWA's regional seminar on teacher quality held Sept. 19-20 at Chicago Public Radio.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez moderated the panel which also included Patricia Gandara, co-director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, and Sherrie Gahn, principal of Whitney Elementary in Las Vegas.