Dec 21, 2018

With U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ Dec. 20 announcement of his forthcoming resignation from President Trump’s cabinet, here’s a chance to revisit our conversation with two student journalists who scored a rare interview with the highly regarded military leader.

Teddy Fischer and Jane Gormley of Mercer Island...

Dec 18, 2018

The public school population in Minnesota, as in many other states, is becoming more diverse by race and ethnicity. But the teacher workforce? Not so much. About one-third of Minnesota students are non-white, compared with roughly 5 percent of teachers, as Faiza Mahamud and MaryJo Webster report for the Star Tribune...

Dec 11, 2018

What happens when a teacher takes a student up on his dare to watch a TV series about zombies? Reporting for The Hechinger Report and The Boston Globe, veteran education journalist Nick Chiles found that at Revere High School just outside of Boston, that dare turned into an English class dedicated to literary lessons...

Dec 4, 2018

In 2015, Tennessee began offering free community college to the state’s new high school graduates, part of a massive effort to push the needle on educational attainment. Three years later, the “Tennessee Promise” initiative gets close scrutiny in a new project by EWA Reporting Fellows Adam Tamburin and Jason...

Nov 27, 2018

A federal judge is expected to rule this winter on whether Harvard University discriminated against Asian-American applicants. The decision could have far-reaching implications for affirmative action at the nation’s colleges and universities. As The Atlantic’s Adam Harris explains, the ripple effects of the civil...