Martin Buskin was active in the Education Writers Association and the EWA has a lecture named for him that is sponsored by the Hegeler Institute and has been given each year since 1976.
EWA BUSKIN LECTURERS
Eli Broad – 2007
New Orleans Panel – 2006
Ruth Simmons – 2004
Lee Bollinger – 2003
Edward M. Kennedy – 2002
Adam Urbanski – 2001
John Lewis – 2000
Studs Terkel – 1999
Theodore Shaw – 1998
James Fallows – 1997
David Tyack – 1996
Melba Beals – 1995
Deborah Meier – 1994
Joseph Fernandez – 1993
Terry Dozier – 1992
Arturo Madrid – 1991
Leon Lederman – 1990
James Comer – 1989
Marian Wright Edelman – 1988
Sid Fleischman – 1987
Paul Simon – 1986
Edward Meade – 1985
Harold Howe -1984
Robert Maynard -1983
Diane Ravitch – 1982
Ron Edmonds – 1981
Paul Cooperman – 1980
Jesse Jackson – 1979
Haynes Johnson – 1978
Fred Hechinger – 1977
Robert Coles – 1976
Thanks to Lisa J. Walker, Executive Director, Education Writers Association, for this information.