2022 Winners of the National Awards for Education Reporting

See the full list of 2022 EWA Awards category winners below.

Photo credit: Jimmy Minichello

Audio Storytelling

Smaller Newsroom

Jess Clark, Stephanie Wolf, Rebecca Feldhaus Adams, Clare Roth & Laura Ellis
WFPL
A Critical Moment

Larger Newsroom

DJ Cashmere, Catherine Winter, Anna Canny, Alden Loury, Chris Julin, Craig Thorson & Andy Kruse
APM Reports
No Excuses: Race and Reckoning at a Chicago Charter School

Beat Reporting

Small Newsroom

Emily Tate Sullivan
EdSurge
What Side Hustle Culture Reveals About Teacher Pay in America

Midsize Newsroom

Lily Altavena
Detroit Free Press
Lily Altavena, Beat Reporting at the Detroit Free Press

Large Newsroom

Mike Hixenbaugh
NBC News Digital
Race, Gender and Civil Rights

Collaborations

All Newsroom Sizes

Mike Reicher, Lulu Ramadan & Taylor Blatchford
The Seattle Times & ProPublica
Invisible Schools

Features

Small Newsroom

Gail Cornwall
The Hechinger Report
A School Created a Homeless Shelter in the Gym and It Paid Off in the Classroom

Midsize Newsroom

Eric Hoover
The Chronicle of Higher Education
When You Can’t Make It On Your Own

Large Newsroom

John Woodrow Cox
The Washington Post
An American Girl

Investigative & Public Service Reporting

Small Newsroom

Thomas Peele
EdSource
Chico State Professor Disciplined for Student Affair Allegedly Threatened Colleagues Who Complained

Midsize Newsroom

Lily Altavena & Dave Boucher
Detroit Free Press
Trapped and Traumatized

Large Newsroom

Jodi S. Cohen & Jennifer Smith Richards
ProPublica & Chicago Tribune
The Price Kids Pay

News

Small Newsroom

Tara García-Mathewson
The Hechinger Report
‘State-Sanctioned Violence:’ Inside One of the Thousands of Schools That Still Paddle Students

Midsize Newsroom

Kalyn Belsha, Stephanie Wang, Erica Meltzer & Marta W. Aldrich
Chalkbeat
Rethinking What Students Learn, One State at a Time

Large Newsroom

Talia Richman, Corbett Smith, Emily Donaldson & Eva-Marie Ayala
The Dallas Morning News
Texas’ “Wild West” Teacher Prep Problems

Visual Storytelling

Smaller Newsroom

Jim Fields, Emmeline Zhao, Laura Fay & Meghan Gallagher
The 74
Weaving a Stronger Society — Starting in Our Schools

Larger Newsroom

Kassie Bracken, Mark Boyer, Jacey Fortin, Rebecca Lieberman & Noah Throop
The New York Times
What’s Actually Being Taught in History Class

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