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October 10, 2014

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Current Sustaining Funders (listed in alphabetical order)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Joyce Foundation
The Kern Family Foundation
The Kresge Foundation
Lumina Foundation
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Pritzker Children’s Initiative
The Wallace Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation

A High School That Listens to Its Students and Teachers
'Student-centered learning' approach means more freedom but also more accountability in Revere, Mass.
(EWA Radio: Episode 187)

December 12, 2018 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

What happens when a teacher takes a student up on his dare to watch a TV series about zombies?

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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College Dreams Meet Reality in ‘Tennessee Promise’ Land
Community colleges, technical programs key to access but opportunity gaps persist
(EWA Radio: Episode 190)

December 3, 2018 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

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 Gonzales of The Tennessean. While there was a statistically significant increase in community college enrollment, students still struggle with outside factors like a lack of preparedness for the rigors of college classes or needing to work to support themselves and their families. Among the conclusions: If the “Tennessee Promise” is to be more effective, students pursuing degrees and career certifications need more support and resources far beyond tuition assistance. The reporting team also analyzed ZIP code data, finding significant gaps in postsecondary attainment. Residents in poorer, rural areas, sometimes called “higher ed deserts,” were the least likely to continue their education beyond high school. So what has worked? What hasn’t? What are early lessons of the program? How can reporters in other communities report on the effectiveness of similar “free college” or college access programs?

State of the Education Beat
Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference

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