Education Week

Education Week is an independent news organization that has covered K–12 education since 1981. It is owned by Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), a nonprofit organization, and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland in Greater Washington DC.

Education Week
TypeNewspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Founder(s)Ronald A. Wolk[1]
PublisherEditorial Projects in Education, Inc.
PresidentMichele J. Givens, President and CEO
Editor-in-chiefScott Montgomery, Editor-in-Chief/Chief Content Officer
Managing editorKathleen Kennedy Manzo, Managing Editor
Staff writersabout 35 journalists (plus interns)[2]
FoundedSeptember 7, 1981 (1981-09-07)
Political alignmentNonpartisan [3]
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters
ISSN0277-4232
OCLC number07579948
Websiteedweek.org
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The newspaper publishes 37 issues a year, including three special annual reports (Quality Counts, Technology Counts, and Leaders to Learn From). From 1997 to 2010, Quality Counts was sponsored by the Pew Center on the States.[4]

History

In 1957, Corbin Gwaltney, founder and then editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine for alumni of Johns Hopkins University, and a group of other university alumni magazine editors came together to discuss writing on higher education and decided to form Editorial Projects for Education (EPE), a nonprofit educational organization. Soon after, Gwaltney left Johns Hopkins Magazine to become the first full-time employee of the newly created EPE, starting in an office in his apartment in Baltimore and later moving to an office near the Johns Hopkins campus.[5] He realized that higher education would benefit from a news publication.[6] Gwaltney and other board members of EPE met to plan a new publication. In 1966, EPE published the first issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.[6][7][8]

In 1978, EPE sold Chronicle to its editors and shifted its attention. With the support of several philanthropies, EPE went on to launch Education Week under the leadership of Ronald A. Wolk.[9] The first issue of Education Week appeared on September 7, 1981, and sought to provide Chronicle-like coverage of elementary and secondary education.[10] It launched with a splash by running a scoop[11] about efforts by President Ronald Reagan's administration to downgrade the U.S. Department of Education, which was then still in its infancy.[1] In August 1981, EPE officially changed the name to Editorial Projects in Education.

References
  1. Walsh, Mark (April 29, 2018). "Ronald A. Wolk, Education Week Founder Who Launched New Era for K-12 Journalism, Dies at 86". Education Week.
  2. "Editorial Projects in Education Staff". Education Week. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  3. "Statement of Editorial Independence and Standards". Education Week. Retrieved May 7, 2018.
  4. "Diplomas Count". Editorial Projects in Education. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  5. Baldwin, Patricia L. (1995). Covering the Campus: The History of the Chronicle of Higher Education, 1966-1993. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-929398-96-3.
  6. De Pasquale, Sue (April 2000). "A Model of Lively Thought". Johns Hopkins Magazine. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  7. Viadero, Debra, Education Week: "A Media Organization With Many Faces". Education Week, September 6, 2006
  8. Baldwin, Joyce (Winter 2006). "Chronicling Higher Education for Nearly Forty Years" (PDF). Carnegie Results. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 7, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  9. Anderson, Nick (May 2, 2018). "Ronald Wolk, whose Education Week put national spotlight on schools, dies at 86". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
  10. Archer, Jeff (September 6, 2006). "Education Week: The Story Behind the Stories". Education Week. Bethesda, MD: Editorial Projects in Education. 26 (2): 36–40. ISSN 0277-4232. Retrieved May 15, 2015.
  11. "Far-Reaching Shift in Federal Role Urged by Bell". Education Week. September 7, 1981.
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