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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.

Jul 29, 2015

Conversations about classroom discipline typically focus on ways to teach kids there are consequences to their actions as a means of controlling their future behavior. But a new approach gaining ground removes the sliding scale of punishment from the equation.

Clinical psychologist Ross Greene -- whose books are well...


Jul 22, 2015

Nestled within the new-agey sounding concept of “noncognitive factors” are fairly concrete examples of what parents and educators should and shouldn’t do to prepare students for the rigors of college and career. Gleaned from research into brain development and human behavior, a toolkit is emerging on how to make...


Jul 16, 2015

With Hispanic students accounting for the largest growth in college enrollment, how are higher education institutions reshaping programs and services to meet their needs? What are the most popular colleges for Hispanic students, and what's driving their choices?

Delece Smith-Barrow, higher education reporter for US...


Jul 7, 2015

In The Boy Who Played With Fusion, journalist Tom Clynes tells the story of Taylor Wilson, a boy genius with a passion for nuclear fusion who makes his way from his modest home in Arkansas to center stage in world of international science competitions. Clynes, writes regularly National Geographic and Popular Science,...