NEPR welcomed National Public Radio’s Education Correspondent Eric Westervelt to UMass Amherst for a conversation on education policy and the new administration.
Westervelt worked as an award-winning foreign correspondent with NPR’s international desk for close to a decade, before returning in late 2013 with a focus on domestic news and American education.
Westervelt was joined by Professor Stephen Sireci of the of the University’s College of Education. Sireci is a professor of educational policy, research, and administration, as well as Director of the Center for Educational Assessment at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
This conversation was recorded on February 17, 2017.
[gtalert title=”Note” title_color=”#699bb1″ close_button=”no” border_style=”none” border_radius=”4″]AudioFiles is a production of New England Public Radio. The interviews, anecdotes, and oral histories recorded for AudioFiles are designed to build a public audio library of the western New England experience, and are not intended as news content, or endorsements by NEPR’s staff or Board. For more information, contact AudioFiles producer, J Kyle Sullivan.[/gtalert]
Leave a Reply