2014 Winners of the National Awards for Education Reporting

EWA is pleased to announce this year’s recipients for its 2014 National Awards for Education Reporting.

General News Outlet (Small Staff)

SINGLE-TOPIC NEWS OR FEATURE

FIRST PRIZE

• A Promise to Renew
  The Hechinger Report
  Sara Neufeld

FINALIST

• A Promise Unfulfilled at Manual High School
  Chalkbeat Colorado
  Nicholas Garcia, Alan Gottlieb and Kate Schimel

BEAT REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• Jon Marcus
  The Hechinger Report

FINALIST

• Melissa Sanchez
  Catalyst Chicago

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• The Revolving Schoolhouse Door: Principal Turnover in Denver, Investigated
  Chalkbeat Colorado
  Monique Collins, Sarah Glen, and Kate Schimel

General News Outlet (Medium Staff)

SINGLE-TOPIC NEWS OR FEATURE

FIRST PRIZE

• Restraints and Seclusions in Public Schools
  ProPublica
  Heather Vogell and Annie Waldman

BEAT REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• Nikole Hannah-Jones
  ProPublica

FINALIST

• Robin Wilson
  The Chronicle of Higher Education

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• Charter Schools Unsupervised
  Sun Sentinel
  Amy Shipley and Karen Yi

FINALISTS

• Consider the Source: The Koch Brothers’ Campus Crusade
  The Center for Public Integrity
  Dave Levinthal and Chris Young
• Terrence P. Carter Investigation
  The Hartford Courant
  Jon Lender and Kathleen Megan

General News Outlet (Large Staff)

SINGLE-TOPIC NEWS OR FEATURE

FIRST PRIZE

• How the Testing Bubble Popped
  The Dallas Morning News
  Jeffrey Weiss

FINALIST

• Trying to Live, Trying to Learn
  The Denver Post
  Joe Amon, Jennifer Brown, and Mahala Gaylord

BEAT REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• Javier C. Hernandez
  The New York Times

FINALISTS

• Larry Gordon
  Los Angeles Times
• T. Rees Shapiro
  The Washington Post

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• Painful Lessons
  The Baltimore Sun
  Luke Broadwater, Scott Calvert, and Erica L. Green

FINALIST

• A Misleading March to the Top
  Kansas City Star
  Mike Hendricks and Mara Rose Williams

Broadcast

SINGLE-TOPIC NEWS OR FEATURE

FIRST PRIZE

• Separate and Unequal
  Frontline
  Raney Aronson-Rath, Steve Audette, Sam Chase, Ken Druckerman, David Fanning, Jeremy Gould, Frank Koughan, Andrew Metz, Mary Robertson, Kyle Spencer, Banks Tarver, and Daniel Wilson

FINALIST

• Greater Expectations: The Challenge of the Common Core
  American RadioWorks
  Emily Hanford, Stephen Smith, and Catherine Winter

BEAT REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• Tim Lloyd
  St. Louis Public Radio

FINALIST

• Jenny Brundin
  Colorado Public Radio

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• Outside the Lines: “Sasha’s Story” and “Victims of Inaction”
  ESPN
  Dwayne Bray, Chris Buckle, Tom Farrey, Tim Hays, Paula Lavigne, and Nicole Noren

Magazines & Weeklies

FEATURE WRITING

FIRST PRIZE

• School Discipline in Mississippi and New Orleans
  The Atlantic, The Hechinger Report and The Nation
  Sarah Carr

FINALIST

• The Professor & the Prisoner
  The Chronicle of Higher Education
  Ian Wilhelm

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING

FIRST PRIZE

• Confessions of a Fixer
  The Chronicle of Higher Education
  Brad Wolverton

FINALIST

• Alcohol’s Hold on Campus
  The Chronicle of Higher Education
  Mary Bowerman, Karin Fischer, Eric Hoover, Beth McMurtrie, Justin Myers, Anu Narayanswamy, Julia Schmalz, and Robin Wilson

Data Journalism

SMALL NEWSROOM

FIRST PRIZE

• How Vaccinated Are California Kindergarteners
  EdSource
  Jane Meredith Adams and John C. Osborn

FINALIST

• No Time for Play
  KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
  Ann Dornfeld, Kara McDermott, Isolde Raftery, and Carol Smith

MEDIUM NEWSROOM

FIRST PRIZE

• Visualizing Chicago’s Changing Public School Landscape
  WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio
  Chris Hagan, Linda Lutton, and Brendan Metzger

FINALIST

• On Campus, Grenade Launchers, M-16s, and Armored Vehicles
  The Chronicle of Higher Education
  Dan Bauman, Lance Lambert, and Max Lewontin

LARGE NEWSROOM

No winners in this category.

Opinion Writing

FIRST PRIZE

• Education Columns
  David Cook
  Chattanooga Times Free Press

FINALIST

• Where Have All the Black and Brown Teachers Gone?
  Alexandria Neason
  The Hechinger Report and The Teacher Project

EWA is grateful to the Edwin Gould Foundation for sponsoring this year’s awards.