Education Week
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Editorial Projects in Education, Inc. |
| Founder(s) | Ronald A. Wolk, Chairman of the Board of Editorial Projects in Education, Inc. |
| Publisher | Editorial Projects in Education, Inc. |
| Editor | Virginia B. Edwards, President and Editor |
| Staff writers | about 35 journalists (plus interns) |
| Founded | September 7, 1981 |
| Language | English |
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| Circulation | 37,314 (2011) |
| ISSN | 0277-4232 |
| OCLC number | 07579948 |
| Website | edweek.org |
Education Week is a United States national newspaper covering K–12 education. It is published by Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), a nonprofit organization, which is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland in Greater Washington DC. The newspaper publishes 37 issues a year, three of them special annual reports (Quality Counts, Technology Counts, and Diplomas Count).
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. He realized that higher education would benefit from a news publication. 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.
In 1978, EPE sold Chronicle to its editors and shifted its attention. With the support of several philanthropies, and using the successful model of Chronicle, EPE went on to launch Education Week. The first issue of Education Week appeared on Sept. 7, 1981, and sought to provide Chronicle-like coverage of elementary and secondary education.
Education Week gained an online presence in 1996 with the website edweek.org, which features breaking news, interactive digital features and a host of news and opinion blogs.
Targeted at teacher-leaders, Education Week Teacher features news relevant to teachers, along with opinion blogs and webinars.
EdWeek Market Brief provides actionable intelligence about the marketplace of K-12 education. Created for both providers of education products and services and school district leaders, Market Brief’s original reporting, deep analysis and proprietary, data-driven research focuses on school district purchasing and the companies and products serving K-12 education.
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