2025 Winners of the National Awards for Education Reporting

See the full list of 2025 EWA Awards category winners below.

Note: The background information and details of how these prize-winning stories were conceived and reported was provided to EWA by the journalist entrants and their newsrooms.

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Beat Reporting

Small Newsroom

Asher Lehrer-Small
Houston Landing
Accountability Coverage of Houston’s State Takeover

Large Newsroom

Marcela Rodrigues
The Boston Globe
Marcela Rodrigues’ Coverage of ICE Raids and Schools

Education-Only Outlets

Jill Barshay
The Hechinger Report
How Trump Gutted Education Research

Broadcast

Features

Caitlin Esch, Stephanie Hughes, Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Minju Park & Jayk Cherry
Marketplace
Inside the Movement to Teach Kids About Money

News

Dylan Peers McCoy, Lee V. Gaines, Eric Weddle, Nicole Cohen & Lauren Migaki
WFYI & NPR
Reporting on Special Education

Data Reporting & Visualization

All Newsroom Sizes (Tie)

Liz Bowie, Greg Morton, Ryan Little & Allan James Vestal
The Banner
Missing the Bus: How Baltimore Failed a Generation of Students Struggling to Get to School

Lauren Weber, Caitlin Gilbert, Dylan Moriarty & Joshua Lott
The Washington Post
U.S. Vaccination Rates Are Plunging. Look up Where Your School Stands.

Explanatory Journalism

Small Newsroom

Megan Tagami
Honolulu Civil Beat
Half Of Hawaiʻi Kids Can’t Swim. Little Is Being Done To Help Them.

Large Newsroom

Mandy McLaren
The Boston Globe
A Promise Unkept

Education-Only Outlets

Alyson Klein & Visuals and Immersive Experiences Team
Education Week
‘Pairing Schools’: One Strategy, Two Very Different Outcomes

Feature

Small Newsroom

Becky Z. Dernbach
Sahan Journal
They Came to the U.S. to Attend Middle School. Then the Immigration Crackdown Began.

Large Newsroom

Casey Parks
The Washington Post
For Young Transgender Runner, Racing Wasn’t the Hardest Thing

Education-Only Outlets

Neal Morton
The Hechinger Report
How a Tribe Won a Legal Battle Against The Federal Bureau of Indian Education — and Still Lost

Investigative Reporting

Small Newsroom

Jeremy Turley & Lauren Wagner
Flatwater Free Press & The 74
Despite the Law, Nebraska School Districts Denied Transfers to Special Ed Kids

Large Newsroom

Emily Schwing
KYUK Public Media, ProPublica & NPR
Frozen Out: Alaska’s Schools Wait for Funding

Education-Only Outlets

Meredith Kolodner, Marina Villeneuve & Jackie Mader
The Hechinger Report
Left Out

Podcast

All Newsroom Sizes

Emily Hanford, Christopher Peak, Curtis Gilbert, Andy Kruse, Kate Martin, Olivia Chilkoti, Carmela Guaglianone, Chris Julin, Derek Ramirez, Tom Scheck & Jane Helmke
American Public Media | APM Reports
Sold a Story

Student Journalism

All Newsroom Sizes

Herald Staff
The Brown Daily Herald
Two Killed, Nine Injured in Dec. 13 Mass Shooting at Brown University

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