Aug 30, 2016

Michael Vasquez shares the backstory to his "Eddie" prize-winning series for The Miami Herald on for-profit colleges in the Sunshine State. Now education editor at Politico, Vasquez and EWA public editor Emily Richmond also discuss whether the federal government's efforts to regulate for-profit colleges go far enough,...

Aug 23, 2016

What will it take for the federal government to finally provide American Indian and Alaskan Native students with the schooling and services they’ve long been promised?

A new series by the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Kelly Field focuses on students from the Blackfeet Indian reservation in Montana, whose...

Aug 16, 2016

For more than two decades, "Savage Inequalities" -- a close look at school funding disparities nationwide -- has been required reading at many colleges and universities. And with a growing number of states facing legal challenges to how they fund their local schools, author Jonathan Kozol's work has a fresh relevance....

Aug 9, 2016

Why is the so-called Satanic Temple launching a national push to add after-school clubs in public elementary schools? And what does the organization hope to accomplish when it comes to challenging perceived violations to the separation between church and state? Journalist Katherine Stewart, a contributing writer to...

Aug 2, 2016

Ben Herold of Education Week explains why "Underused and Oversold: Computers in the Classroom" is a smart read for reporters, even 13 years after Stanford Professor Larry Cuban wrote it. Herold and public editor Emily Richmond discuss the value of stepping back from day-to-day coverage of the latest education trends to...