2015 Finalists for the National Awards for Education Reporting
EWA is pleased to announce this year’s finalists for the 2015 EWA National Awards for Education Reporting, as well as the Edwin Gould Foundation’s Eddie Prize.
General News Outlet (Small Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
Innovative Math Program Succeeds at American Indian
Schools, Before Funding Is Cut
The Hechinger Report
Ron Feemster
When School
Feels Like Jail
The Marshall Project
Eli Hager
Glen’s
Village
Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Dorian Geiger, Paul Jablow, and Paul Socolar
Beat Reporting
Patrick
Wall
Chalkbeat New York
Jon
Marcus
The Hechinger Report
Investigative Reporting
Colorado’s First School-by-School Immunization
Database
Chalkbeat Colorado
Ann Schimke
Choice Is
Resegregating Public Schools
San Francisco Public Press
Michele Anderson, Sanne Bergh, Colleen Cummins, Emily
Dugdale, Tearsa Joy Hammock, Laura
Impellizzeri, Erika Rae Langdon, Eric Lawson, Paul
Lorgerie, Rebecca Robinson, Jeremy Adam
Smith, Michael Stoll, Jeffrey Thorsby, and Anna
Vignet
General News Outlet (Medium Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
Children in
Crisis
Las Vegas Sun
Jackie Valley
The
Challenges of Identifying Dyslexia in
Students
MindShift at KQED
Holly Korbey
Rural
Majority: The Challenge of Kansas Education
The Topeka Capital-Journal
Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Beat Reporting
Eric
Hoover
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Trevon
Milliard
Reno Gazette-Journal
Investigative Reporting
Criminalizing
Kids
The Center for Public Integrity
Susan Ferriss, Ben Wieder, Gordon Witkin,
and Chris Zubak-Skees
Reveal Radio
Jim Briggs, Julia B. Chan, Jocelyn Frank, Deborah
George, Al Letson, Susanne Reber, and Kevin Sullivan
Group
Homes Hurt Kids, Evade Accountability
ProPublica
Heather Vogell and Annie Waldman
General News Outlet (Large Staff)
Single-Topic News or Feature
Unsettled
Journeys
The Baltimore Sun
Liz Bowie and Amy Davis
College Sexual
Assault Project
The Washington Post
Nick Anderson, Emma Brown, Scott Clement, Peyton M. Craighill,
Steve Hendrix, and Susan Svrluga
Beat Reporting
Benjamin
Wermund
Houston Chronicle
Josh
Mitchell
The Wall Street Journal
Investigative Reporting
College of
DuPage
Chicago Tribune
Jodi S. Cohen and Stacy St. Clair
Higher-Ed
Hustle
Miami Herald
Michael Vasquez
Failure
Factories
Tampa Bay Times
Cara Fitzpatrick, Lisa Gartner, and Michael LaForgia
Broadcast
Single-Topic News or Feature
Bilingual
Education in the South
Southern Education Desk and WBHM
Dan Carsen
The Problem We
All Live With
This American Life/The New York Times Magazine
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Beat Reporting
Jenny
Brundin
Colorado Public Radio
Amy
Scott
Marketplace
Investigative Reporting
LAUSD’s
iPads Program
KPCC
Annie Gilbertson, Evelyn Larrubia, and Sandra Oshiro
The Truth About
America’s Graduation Rate
NPR and WBEZ
Anya Kamenetz, Elissa Nadworny, Cory Turner, and Becky Vevea
Lower Income,
Higher Ed
WAMU
Tara Boyle, Kavitha Cardoza, Chris
Chester, Deborah George, and Kristen Sorensen
Magazines & Weeklies
Feature Writing
The Silicon
Valley Suicides
The Atlantic
Hanna Rosin
The
Other Side of the Campus Sexual Assault Crisis
Newsweek
Max Kutner
Investigative Reporting
Dropouts in Chicago: How the City Both Helped Them and Ignored
Them
Catalyst Chicago, WBEZ, and Better Government
Association
Sarah Karp and Becky Vevea
The
Lack of Home-Schooling Regulations in America
ProPublica, Slate, and The Teacher Project
Jessica Huseman
Data Journalism
The $10 Billion
Sports Tab
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sandhya Kambhampati and Brad Wolverton
The Huffington Post
Ben Hallman and Shane Shifflett
Debt by
Degrees
ProPublica
Annie Waldman and Sisi Wei
Opinion Writing
Willen Weighs
In
The Hechinger Report
Liz Willen
New
Orleans Schools 10 Years After Katrina
The Teacher Project and Slate
Sarah Carr
The Eddie Prize
Higher-Ed
Hustle
Miami Herald
Michael Vasquez
First
Year, First Generation
NewsWorks (WHYY)
Avi Wolfman-Arent
The FAFSA Quick
Fix
NPR
Cory Turner