Boards & Committees

Overview

Boards & Committees

December 23, 2013

EWA’s leadership, including its board of directors, committees and advisory boards

Board of Directors

Overview

EWA Board of Directors
2021-22

April 22, 2013

Under the bylaws of the Education Writers Association, the EWA Board of Directors “shall establish policy for the organizations and shall oversee the operation of a program for the advancement of public understanding of education through the communications media and to further the state of the art of education journalism.”

Committees

Overview

Committees

April 22, 2013

The EWA Board of Directors has five standing committees: Audit, Awards and Advocacy, Finance, Membership and Nominating, and Program Strategy. The five officers of the board serving as the Steering Committee.

Journalist Advisory Board

Overview

Journalist Advisory Board

November 15, 2013

The Education Writers Association’s Journalist Advisory Board is a group of accomplished journalists who help EWA carry out its mission to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public.

Formed in September 2012, the panel provides input and feedback on a range of membership and programming questions. Such topics include efforts to improve member engagement, EWA’s events, the National Awards for Education Reporting, and online resources aimed at bolstering education journalists’ skills and knowledge.

Community Advisory Board

Overview

Community Member Advisory Board

April 28, 2015

The Community Advisory Board was created by the Education Writers Association Board of Directors to help steer the organization’s programs and services for nonjournalist members. The nine-member board is made up of communications professionals with wide-ranging backgrounds, including education reporting and editing.

The board provides input and feedback to the EWA staff and Board of Directors on future direction for membership services. Members also play a large role in shaping sessions tailored for Supporting Community Members at the annual EWA National Seminar.

Diversity and Inclusion Task Force

Overview

Education Writers Association Diversity and Inclusion Task Force

April 28, 2017

The mission of the Education Writers Association Diversity and Inclusion Task Force is to advise the EWA Board of Directors and staff on ways they can advance demographic diversity and inclusion among the EWA membership and in the field of education journalism more broadly.

P-12 Education’s Big Stories to Follow in 2022
(EWA Radio Episode 285)

January 11, 2022 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

How many days of instruction have students really lost amid the pandemic, and what’s the impact? How are districts tracking and reporting COVID-19 infection rates among students and staff? Who’s making sure the services districts invest in to help struggling students recover academically are high quality and grounded in research?

Blog: The Educated Reporter

Martin Luther King Jr. Said, ‘Education is a Battleground.’ Reflecting on His Words
King’s remarks on education continue to be relevant in 21st century America.

January 5, 2022 Kristan Obeng

When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the John Dewey Award from the United Federation of Teachers in 1964, he spoke of education being a battleground in the freedom struggle.

“It was not fortuitous that education became embroiled in this conflict,” King said. “Education is one of the vital tools the Negro needs in order to advance. And yet it has been denied him by devises of segregation and manipulations with quality.”

Blog: The Educated Reporter

Member Spotlight: How a Newbie Education Reporter Landed a Big Investigation
"Race shapes everything we write" says 2019 EWA Awards Investigative Finalist Annie Ma

January 4, 2022 Asia Allen

Annie Ma landed her first full-time staff reporting job – as an education reporter at the Charlotte Observer – in June 2019. Just four weeks later, a story broke that would lead her into an investigation that won her and another reporter finalist honors in that year’s EWA Awards program.

EWA Radio

New Year, New Higher Ed Stories
From continued COVID-19 fallout to federal higher ed policy shifts, it’s a big year ahead for colleges and universities (EWA Radio Episode 284)

January 4, 2022 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

This will be a momentous year for higher education – as colleges attempt to recover from COVID shutdowns, student loan bills come due again, and big changes come to admissions offices. What will college look like this year? How are institutions planning to spend billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds? And how bad a hit are overall enrollment numbers going to take in the third year of the pandemic?

Blog: The Educated Reporter

How to Cover the Complex World of Child Care Funding
Learn about how child care programs braid funding together—and still struggle to survive.

January 3, 2022 Jackie Mader of The Hechinger Report for EWA

The fractured state of the child care industry has become especially clear during the coronavirus pandemic, as thousands of child care centers have closed permanently, and many more are struggling to find workers and survive economically.

Many of the issues facing these centers are related to the complexities of funding and lack of public investment in child care. It is expensive to provide, unaffordable for many families, and child care workers make such meager wages that many live in poverty, something that has led to an exodus of early educators during the pandemic.

State of the Education Beat 2021
A Critical Profession at a Time of Crisis

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