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Current Sustaining Funders

October 10, 2014

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

EWA retains sole editorial control over its programming and content.

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

How Much Do Charter Schools Cost Districts?
As charter school enrollment grows, researchers disagree on extent of financial impact and who's to blame.

August 20, 2018 David Loewenberg

It’s a refrain heard often in arguments against charter schools—they divert money and resources from already cash-strapped traditional public schools.

But determining to what extent that criticism rings true is anything but simple. Despite several studies, estimates of the costs traditional public schools bear as they lose students to charter schools are imprecise and vary considerably.

image of Siena from Washington Post series

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‘Our First Job Is to Be Human. Our Second Job Is to Be a Journalist.’
Award-winning reporter John Woodrow Cox shares insights on covering children and gun violence
(EWA Radio: Episode 171)

August 16, 2018 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

From first-graders in rural South Carolina to high schoolers in Las Vegas, The Washington Post’s John Woodrow Cox paints searing portraits of the impact of gun violence through the eyes of the survivors themselves.

Blog: The Educated Reporter

After District Error, Reporters Publish Hidden Details on Parkland Shooter’s History
Broward County School Board wants Sun Sentinel reporters held in contempt for publishing redacted details

August 14, 2018 Emily Richmond

For reporters, it’s second nature to hold up a redacted paper document to the light to see what might still be visible. Two reporters at the South Florida Sun Sentinel are facing a possible contempt of court charge for using a digital version of this technique on a report — commissioned by Broward County Public Schools — about the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

image of teacher and students at Ohio Ave school.

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This School Lets Teachers Decide Discipline. Is It Working?
A social-emotional approach to classroom management that's gaining steam nationally (EWA Radio: Episode 168)

August 14, 2018 Emily Richmond Subscribe to #ewaRADIO

What would happen if teachers had the flexibility to handle classroom discipline issues on a case-by-case basis, rather than following top-down mandates from the district or the principal’s office? Writing for The Atlantic, Katherine Reynolds Lewis visited Ohio Avenue Elementary School in Columbus, where an effort to rethink approaches to bad behavior appears to be paying big dividends.

Blog: The Educated Reporter

Data Visualization for Amateurs (and Experts)

August 3, 2018 Sharon Noguchi of Chalkbeat for EWA

Petrified by percentages? Or mesmerized by math?

No worries. Experts assembled for a recent Education Writers Association panel shared strategies to enlist data to tell your story, and how to convey it visually, with tips for math phobes and number nerds alike.

Data is simply a collection of structured stories, said Alvin Chang of Vox Media. Think of every row in a chart as a story, and every visual element as a sentence, he advised. Then ask: How is it better than a sentence? (If it’s not, maybe it shouldn’t be a chart.)

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

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