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Most of our publications are available for free download below.

If you are looking to purchase mailing lists or EWA’s Standards for Reporters, go here. Publications List.

Back issues of EWA's bimonthly publication, Education Reporter, are available here.

EWA Backgrounders - Short summaries of key topics in education.

Common Core and ELLs: Lessons from Miami

EWA Research Briefs - EWA will be releasing a series of briefs summarizing research on a variety of topics. These briefs will be produced with input from EWA's Research Roundtable.

EWA Reform Briefs - EWA is releasing two series of briefs, one on early childhood education and another on No Child Left Behind.

Early Childhood: Assessing Young Children provides a primer for reporters on the escalating debate on how and why young children should be assessed.
States Moving to Universal Pre-K examines how states are expanding early childhood programs. Nov 2007
Tossed Out: Pre-K Programs Focus on Behavior encourages reporters to pay attention to what's being taught inside pre-K classrooms. Nov 2007
Pre-K Implementation Issues explains how pre-school programs operate on a state level and funding. May 2007
Community vs. School-Based Pre-K helps reporters learn the different providers operating pre-K classrooms nationwide. Feb 2007
Financing Early Childhood Education aims to help reporters understand the myriad methods used to finance preschool programs. Aug 2006
No Child Left Behind and Science Education looks at efforts to overhaul K-12 science education in light of new federal requirements. 2006
Meeting Individual Needs explores the differences in how states are serving three-and four-year-olds.2006
Community Colleges, following EWA's successful regional seminar on the subject, explores the growing importance of those colleges in higher education.2006

Standards for Education Reporters is a set of voluntary guidelines that cover what education reporters should know and be able to do. The standards cover the knowledge and skills education writers should strive for, as well as conveying the ethical situations unique to the education beat. The standards book will be sent to every newsroom in the country and is available for free download as an Adobe Acrobat pdf file. Hard copies are available here for $12 each.

Asking the Right Questions: EWA celebrates 60 years of education reporting with the release of Asking the Right Questions and getting feedback from leading journalists on how to approach the beat. Download the pdf version.

Training for Reporters News to the Education Beat: Here is a helpful guide for new reporters on the education beat to learn more about important issues and topics ranging from standardized testing, special education and teacher quality. This guide was distributed at EWA's 2010 annual seminar in San Francisco. Download the pdf version.

Covering the Education Beat is available. See the Table of Contents. If you're a member, you can go to our members-only site to look at it online. Also a Spanish version of portions of Covering the Education Beat are available as Cubriendo Sector de la Educacion. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Public Schools, Private Markets: A Reporter's Guide to Privatization tackles the key elements of privatization, including charter schools, vouchers, for-profit education companies and state sponsored tutoring. The privatization book is available for a free download as an Adobe Acrobat file or can be ordered here for $12.

Effective Superintendents, Effective Boards: Finding the Right Fit looks at the relationship between school boards and superintendents and how it affects student achievement. The report is available for free on the Web.

Searching for a Superhero: Can Principals Do It All? is now available. You can download the pdf version for free. The 16-page special report looks at the shortage of principals and the role they should play in school reform.

The Higher Ed Beat: EWA's survey of higher education reporters in 2002 showed that many sawcoverage of rising tuition and college finance as the top issues.You can download the pdf version for free.