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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.

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Is Kochs' High School Finance Class Pushing Conservative Agenda?

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...

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Michigan's Charter Schools: Detroit Free Press Series Digs Deep

Jul 9, 2014

A year-long investigation into Michigan's charter schools by the Detroit Free Press uncovered wasteful spending, cozy contracts, and missed opportunities to shut down long-struggling campuses, according to the newspaper. EWA public editor Emily Richmond spoke with two reporters from the team -- Lori Higgins and David...

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