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October 10, 2014

The Education Writers Association is grateful for the generous support it receives from foundations.

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Current Sustaining Funders (listed in alphabetical order)

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Joyce Foundation
The Kern Family Foundation
Lumina Foundation
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Nellie Mae Education Foundation
Pritzker Children’s Initiative
The Wallace Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
William T. Grant Foundation

Why Race and Equity Matter in Education Reporting

May 24, 2018 Nichole Dobo of The Hechinger Report for EWA

Education journalists must think more critically about the ways in which race, ethnicity and gender play into the stories they tell, a panel of experts said at the first keynote session at the Education Writers Association’s national seminar in Los Angeles last week.

Blog: The Educated Reporter

Parkland Survivors and Other Youth Activists: ‘You’re Going to Listen to Us’ on Gun Violence
EWA National Seminar puts spotlight on students

May 17, 2018 Madeline Will of Education Week for EWA

In an emotionally charged session at the Education Writers Association’s national seminar, several student activists urged journalists to keep the national spotlight on gun violence and not let the shootings at a Florida high school and elsewhere be forgotten.

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Can Kindness Be Taught? The L.A. School District Is Trying to Find Out.
Social and emotional learning is focus of new curriculum (EWA Radio: Episode 167)

May 8, 2018 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

In the nation’s second-largest school district, every preschooler — nearly 30,000 of them — are being taught an experimental curriculum that focuses on so-called “soft skills,” such as empathy and cooperation. Reporter Priska Neely of Southern California Public Radio recently explored the Sanford Harmony model — named for a billionaire banking philanthropist — which is being used with more than 1 million K-5 students nationwide, including in Los Angeles.

photo by Ilana Panich-Linsman for ProPublica

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Betsy DeVos Is Scaling Back Civil Rights Investigations. Here’s Why That Matters.
Tips for mining new federal data on student discipline and navigating FERPA (EWA Radio: Episode 166)

May 2, 2018 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

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image of teachers rally in front of OK state capitol 2018.

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Lessons From the Oklahoma Teachers’ Strike
Educators’ walkouts fuel push for better pay, statewide education funding (EWA Radio: Episode 165)

April 16, 2018 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

After nine days on the picket lines, Oklahoma teachers are back to work this week. Like their counterparts in West Virginia and Kentucky who also went on strike this spring, teachers in the Sooner State were seeking more than bigger paychecks; they also aimed to draw attention to funding shortfalls for public schools statewide. Ben Felder of The Oklahoman shares his experiences as a local reporter covering what quickly swelled into a national story.

State of the Education Beat
Nation’s Education Reporters Confident They’re Making a Difference

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