Education Writers Association
Project Title
For project support to prepare local newsroom editors and their teams for meaningful community engagement over education issues
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
The Education Writers Association (EWA), the largest professional organization serving education journalists proposes developing an education editor training program with Corporation support. The “New to the Desk” program will train new education editors to lead reporting teams covering school communities during a crucial time in our history, ensuring they receive needed support as they advance in their careers. With newsrooms and budgets shrinking, the ability to cover local community issues is endangered. As Election Day 2024 approaches, threats to an informed electorate persist, including misinformation. Editors must ensure fair, accurate reporting. The project will launch a pilot program with about ten editors in a co-learning space focused on education coverage leadership. EWA aims to recruit a diverse pool of editors with less than five years of experience through relationships with editor-serving organizations and a dedicated recruitment plan.
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For support of EWA's 2023 National Seminar
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
6 months
Description
School as we know it — from teaching to testing to extracurriculars — has been profoundly disrupted, with troubling consequences often falling hardest on Black, Latinx and Native American students and their families. How the education sector will be changed over the long term remains unclear. Education journalists need to be the public’s guide to an uncertain future, providing real-time information and analysis to help students, parents and the broader public emerge from the pandemic and its aftermath. Founded in 1947, the Education Writers Association (EWA) has been working for over seventy-fiveyears to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public. EWA is a vibrant professional community of education journalists — reporters, editors, producers, and freelancers who work for online media, newspapers, radio and TV stations, and magazines. With renewed support from the Corporation, EWA will continue to contribute to the nation’s education journalists with financial support for professional learning experiences that have strengthened the quality and quantity of reporting on education.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
With the education sector in turmoil for much of 2020 and 2021, holding together and shoring up the fragile education journalism ecosystem has never been more essential. School as we know it — from teaching to testing to extracurriculars — has been profoundly disrupted, with troubling consequences often falling hardest on Black, Latinx and Native American students and their families. How the education sector will be changed over the long term remains unclear. Education journalists need to be the public’s guide to an uncertain future, providingreal-time information and analysis to help students, parents and the broader public emerge from the pandemic and its aftermath. Founded in 1947, the Education Writers Association (EWA) has been working for nearly 75 years to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public. EWA is a vibrant professional community of education journalists — reporters, editors, producers, and freelancers who work for online media, newspapers, radio and TV stations, and magazines. With renewed support from the Corporation. EWA will continue to provide itsmembersaccess to high-quality resources to build their knowledge and skills, allow them to learn from one another, and remain inspired to do the work that is so essential to the future of our society.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
With the education sector in turmoil for much of 2020 with the Covid-19 pandemic, holding together and shoring up the fragile education journalism ecosystem has never been more essential. School as we know it was utterly upended in 2020, with consequences often falling hardest on Black, Latinx and Native American students and their families. How the education sector will be changed over the long term remains unclear. We however do know that into 2021 and beyond, the American public will remain in urgent need of accurate news and information about everything from remote preschool options to college admissions. Education journalists need to be the public’s guide to an uncertain future, providing the real-time information and analysis to help students, parents and the broader public emerge from the pandemic and its aftermath with a minimum of lasting damage. Founded in 1947, the Education Writers Association (EWA) has been working for more than 70 years to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public. EWA is a vibrant professional community of education journalists — reporters, editors, producers, and freelancers who work for online media, newspapers, radio and TV stations, and magazines. With renewed support from the Corporation. EWA will continue to provide its members access to high-quality resources to build their knowledge and skills, allow them to learn from one another, and remain inspired to do the work that is so essential to the future of our society?
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For support of national seminars, fellowships and reporting resources and coaching
Date
Dec. 05, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
This moment in our nation’s history is an especially challenging time for journalism, a cornerstone of American democracy. Independent news outlets are under assault from the highest levels of government. This campaign of delegitimization makes it no easier to build public trust in the Fourth Estate, but it is just one of myriad challenges facing the nation’s journalists. From changes in communications technology to crippling corporate pressures to do more with less, these challenges have put the news media’s capacity to achieve excellence under unrelenting strain. According to a new report by the Pew Research Center, U.S. newsroom employment has declined by a staggering twenty-five percent since 2008, with the greatest decline at newspapers. The Education Writers Association (EWA) knows that today’s reporters, editors, and other media professionals depend on their allies and support organizations now more than ever. Helping education journalists succeed is critical, though, if the nation’s education journalists are going to deliver the strong and thoughtful coverage that policymakers, educators, families, and the general public depend on. With continued support from the Corporation, EWA will continue to contribute to the nation’s education journalists with financial support and professional learning experiences that have strengthened the quality and quantity of reporting on education.
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For support of national seminars, fellowships, and reporting resources and coaching
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
18 months
Description
After decades of education reform efforts, the need is more urgent than ever to improve student outcomes, especially for students of color and children from low-income families. Policymakers, educators, families, and the general public depend on strong and thoughtful news coverage of the field to inform practices and decision-making at all levels of government and education, including for individual families. With continued support from the Corporation, the Education Writers Association (EWA), the only national professional organization for reporters, editors, producers, and others who focus on education, plans to build on their previous work to support education journalists nationwide. Their proposed project will expand the capacity of education journalists to produce a larger volume of insightful, nuanced, and consequential news coverage, with a special emphasis on building public understanding of priority topics, such as new designs and pathways to postsecondary success, through events, resources, fellowships, and services aimed at building journalists’ knowledge, awareness, and skills.
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For parent engagement panels at the Education Writers Association National Seminar and a reception on high schools of the future
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
Education Writers Association (EWA), a national professional organization for journalists and other writers who cover education, has a track record of delivering consistently high-quality programming at its events. EWA partners with education journalists and experts from across the country to advance their mission to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public. With Corporation support, EWA will provide learning opportunities at its 2017 National Seminar, the largest and most influential gathering of education journalists in the nation. EWA aims to enhance the field’s capacity to effectively inform and advance the public discourse about emerging secondary school models conducive to higher levels of student learning. They also want to help journalists sharpen their ability to explore and reflect parent perspectives on education in their work, thus providing coverage that better engages and connects with this critically important group of stakeholders in public education. EWA anticipates that this programming will result in education coverage that builds knowledge and understanding among parents and other members of the public about the movement to transform public education to meet contemporary needs to prepare young people to be responsible citizens and successful participants in the knowledge-based, global economy.
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For coverage of new school designs
Date
Mar. 03, 2016
Duration
24 months
Description
Across the country, momentum is building to redesign American high schools, with an emphasis on innovations that propel students toward success in college, work, and life. However, despite recent media attention, inspiring examples do not exist at scale. Many of the nation’s journalists lack sufficient understanding of the emerging innovative high school redesign work and efforts to report about this work in significant depth remain relatively scarce. Education Writers Association (EWA) will build knowledge and understanding of high school redesign among their network of journalists across the nation. Using a mix of programming approaches, they will strengthen the capacity of members of the news media to produce stories that effectively explain and bring alive the ongoing wave of innovation in school design to their own large audiences.
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For a series on Common Core implementation around the country
Date
Mar. 05, 2015
Duration
12 months
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For stepping up STEM training and tools for superior coverage
Date
Dec. 15, 2011
Duration
24 months
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For a seminar on the strategic management of human capital for journalists
Date
Dec. 02, 2010
Duration
12 months
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Toward informing and training reporters to promote coverage of urban district reform
Date
Mar. 06, 2008
Duration
27 months
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Toward a series of briefings on education issues with the 2008 presidential candidates
Date
Mar. 06, 2008
Duration
20 months
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Toward informing and training reporters to promote coverage of urban district reform
Date
Mar. 03, 2005
Duration
33 months