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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
Foundation for Child Development
Funders for Adolescent Science Translation
The Joyce Foundation
Lumina Foundation
Pritzker Children’s Initiative
The Spencer Foundation
The Wallace Foundation
The Walton Family Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
W.T. Grant Foundation

EWA Tip Sheet: How to Cover Students’ Academic Recovery
Get background, tips and story ideas for covering academic recovery, and any resulting achievement gaps, at K-12 and higher education institutions.

August 11, 2022 By Nirvi Shah for EWA

More than two years into the pandemic, colleges and schools are trying to help students make up for lost instructional time.

What’s ahead on the path to academic recovery? Experts offered their perspectives on what reporters should look for and be mindful of during a session at the Education Writers Association’s 2022 National Seminar.

The panel agreed that students have a lot of ground to make up because of the disruption, though all students don’t have the same distance to go.

EWA Radio

Emily Richmond Takes a Temporary Break As Public Editor. But EWA Radio Continues!
Emily is taking a leave of absence as EWA's public editor. She joins the Spencer Education Fellowship, a program run by Columbia University. Emily hands over the mic to Kavitha Cardoza, who's filling in for her this year. (EWA Radio Episode 297)

August 9, 2022 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

As Emily Richmond says goodbye (temporarily!), she looks into the early history of integration and present-day landscape of the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), which serves nearly 67,000 students from military connected families at its campuses both in the U.S. and abroad.

Blog: The Educated Reporter

Reporting on College Affordability? Keep 3 Lessons in Mind.
The Education Department’s James Kvaal speaks about the future of higher education and the Biden administration’s role.

July 29, 2022 By Isabel Lohman of Bridge Michigan for EWA

As education journalists analyze new federal higher education proposals and the continuing public debate about student loan forgiveness, a panel featuring a top U.S. Department of Education official offers some lessons to keep in mind.

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Covering Education in a Crisis
Two journalists discuss the challenges and rewards of working the education beat and how COVID-19 has changed things for them

June 23, 2022 By Jenna Doleh of The Wallace Foundation

This blog was republished with permission from The Wallace Foundation, which published it first. (Disclaimer: The Wallace Foundation is one of EWA’s sustaining funders.)

EWA Radio

Was His Former Teacher a Sexual Predator? This Reporter Had to Find Out.
Matt Drange of Business Insider exposed two decades of questionable behavior by a Southern California teacher whose former female students say were groomed by him for sex. (EWA Radio Episode 296)

June 21, 2022 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

For senior correspondent Matt Drange of Business Insider, this was a reporting assignment like no other: investigating his former high school journalism teacher on allegations of sexual misconduct.

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

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Covering Education in a Crisis
Two journalists discuss the challenges and rewards of working the education beat and how COVID-19 has changed things for them

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