Friday, March 16, 2012

The Educated Reporter: Congratulations to the 2011 EWA National Reporting Contest Winners!

The Educated Reporter: Congratulations to the 2011 EWA National Reporting Contest Winners!:


Congratulations to the 2011 EWA National Reporting Contest Winners!

For those of us on the education beat, 2011 was quite a year.

If you want proof, just take a look at the winners of the Education Writers Association’s National Reporting Contest for the best stories of 2011.

Among the winners are beat reporters deep in the trenches at community and regional newspapers, as well as education journalists writing for national publications, broadcast outlets, trade journals and blogs. Their collective work paints a vivid portrait of a public education system struggling to remake itself amidst overwhelming demands for accountability and reform.

There were groundbreaking stories about cheating scandals, and how student sexual assaults  are handled by