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Education Writers Association Diversity and Inclusion Task Force

April 28, 2017

The mission of the Education Writers Association Diversity and Inclusion Task Force is to advise the EWA Board of Directors and staff on ways they can advance demographic diversity and inclusion among the EWA membership and in the field of education journalism more broadly.

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Diversity and Inclusion Task Force Members

April 28, 2017

Dakarai Aarons, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Daarel Burnette, Education Week

Julie Chang, Austin American-Statesman

Nichole Dobo, The Hechinger Report

Steve Drummond, NPR News

Nic Garcia, Chalkbeat

Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine

Samantha Hernandez, Green Bay Press-Gazette

Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times

Francisco Vara-Orta, Education Week

Advocates, Educators Discuss ‘National Disgrace’ of Educational Inequity

December 17, 2018 Carolyn Phenicie of The 74 for EWA

Education reporters and progressive Twitter denizens are probably familiar with the graphic. Three people of different heights are trying to look over a fence. In one frame, labeled “equality,” each is given a box of the same height, leaving the shortest still unable to see over the fence.

In the other, labeled “equity,” each is given a box of different sizes so they’re at equal heights.

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Blog: The Educated Reporter

What Do Teachers Really Think About School Discipline Reform?

December 11, 2018 David Loewenberg

Not long ago, a student who got into a fight at school would likely face an automatic suspension. Now, in schools across the country, that student might be back in class the next day.

That change is part of an expansive effort to rethink the way public schools respond to misbehavior. In many schools, punitive measures like suspension and expulsion are being replaced with alternative strategies that aim to keep students in the classroom and address underlying issues like trauma and stress.

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Blog: The Educated Reporter

How a Reporter Enlisted Teachers to Expose Hazards in Philly Schools

December 7, 2018 Diana LambertEdSource for EWA

Barbara Laker isn’t an education reporter. She doesn’t have a long list of teachers’ phone numbers in her contacts. So, it’s amazing that she was able to find and convince 24 teachers and other school employees from 19 elementary schools to swab pipes, drinking fountains and suspicious patches of black on classroom walls.

Blog: The Educated Reporter

Teacher Evaluation: The Only Constant Is Change, Experts Say

December 7, 2018 Beth HawkinsThe 74 for EWA

If there’s been one constant over the last decade in terms of teacher evaluation policies in the United States, it’s been change.

First, performance reviews incorporating student test scores became – mostly – the law of the land. Then, the academic standards educators and their pupils are measured against — mostly – changed. And then, in many places, those standards changed again.

So, has the implementation of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which did away with mandates on how states measure teacher quality, calmed the roiling waters?

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