Dec 20, 2013

It's the very first episode of EWA's new podcast! A few times each month, your hosts Emily Richmond and Mikhail Zinshteyn will talk about education and its coverage with a wide range of special guests.

In our first outing, Emily sits down with Alexander Russo (This Week in Education) for a year-end analysis of the big...

Nov 8, 2013

A key impetus for the Common Core State Standards has been American students’ standing in the world. Speakers: Marc Tucker of the National Center on Education and Economy and author Amanda Ripley, interviewed by Michael Chandler of the Washington Post.

Recorded Nov. 4, 2013 at EWA's reporting seminar, Common Core at...

Nov 8, 2013

What do Smarter Balanced and PARCC officials see for the future? Speakers: Jacqueline King of Smarter Balanced and Laura Slover of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Moderated by Lisa Fleisher, Wall Street Journal.

Recorded Nov. 4, 2013 at EWA's reporting seminar, Common Core at the...

Nov 8, 2013

The political debate about Common Core is ongoing, but other issues are coming to the fore. What are the checks and balances amid the frenzy of products purportedly aligned to the standards? How are states and districts engaging parents? Are colleges going to accept that high school graduates educated to the standards...

Nov 8, 2013

Robert Pianta will describe his extensive research into what makes a good early childhood education teacher and how the University of Virginia developed an instrument to measure early childhood teachers. Laura Bornfreund will discuss the different approaches being used by districts to measure student growth for the...