Message From EWA's Executive Director

As we turn the page on another successful National Seminar and another fiscal year, EWA is preparing new programming and exciting initiatives to support great education journalism.

Later this month, we’ll be lifting the veil on Story Starters, our new resource for journalists, researchers and education advocates. This fall, we’ll bring you another Higher Education Seminar, the details of which will be announced soon. Throughout the year, we’ll continue providing Web-based trainings through our EWA webinar series and peer-to-peer connection in our online community, EdMedia Commons. And we’ll keep offering reporters great pointers online and one-on-one through our public editor, Emily Richmond.

In all these ways and many more, EWA helps bring together the community that cares about education journalism. EWA membership is now dues-free, which means we all need to work harder to ensure the strength of our community. By making a donation to EWA, you can send a powerful message that the National Education Writers Association makes a difference in your work. Your gift will help us pursue our mission of more and higher quality education coverage. If you’d like to help, click here.

Thanks in advance! 

Caroline Hendrie

EWA Webinar: Summer Idyll -- or Idle? Stories Ideas for Journalists

All over the country, the year’s last school bell is ringing. But now that it’s time for pool parties and summer camp, what happens to the knowledge students gained during the school year?

On June 26 at 1 p.m. EDT, Gary Huggins of National Summer Learning Association; Kathleen Manzo of Education Week; and Katy Murphy of the Oakland Tribune will talk about how reporters can examine summer learning loss and how to tell when schools and communities offer effective summer school. This webinar is free to all members, so sign up today!

Catch up on the National Seminar

Missed all or part of the 65th National Seminar? We’ve got you covered.

Right now you can catch up at Ed Beat with great blogs about observing classrooms, summer learning loss, and the question of whether school vouchers are making a comeback. You can find all the blogs from the National Seminar here, and be sure to keep checking Ed Beat – we’ll be posting more National Seminar blogs next week.