Jun 24, 2025

What should have been a routine trip home from a local zoo turned into the deadliest school bus crash in Texas’ recent history. The crash left a 5-year-old boy and an adult dead, and dozens of other children suffered serious injuries and emotional trauma. How did this happen?  

In an in-depth series, a reporting team...

May 13, 2025

With the Education Writers Association’s 78th National Seminar on the horizon, public editor Emily Richmond and veteran reporter Nicole Carr discuss how to make the most out of attending the nation’s largest gathering of education journalists. 

What’s new this year in St. Louis, and how does the impressive roster...

Apr 1, 2025

President Donald Trump chose Linda McMahon, known best for her family’s professional wrestling empire, to carry out his executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. 

Linda Jacobson, senior writer for The 74 Million, talks with EWA Public Editor Emily Richmond about the new education secretary’s...

Oct 22, 2024

Former evangelical insider Deborah Jian Lee explains how over 200 federally funded religious schools – with nearly one million students – exploit the religious exemption from Title IX, the federal policy that protects students from discrimination. 

These schools violated the civil rights of Journey Mueller, who was...

Sep 24, 2024

Laura Meckler, the award-winning national education reporter for The Washington Post, shares the top stories in her notebook for the coming academic year. 

Hear why she’s tracking cellphone bans, her advice for covering contentious school board elections, and how to put the so-called “culture wars” into context...