Editorial Projects in Education

For more than a quarter of a century, Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) has remained focused on one mission: raising the level of discourse about K-12 education through the dissemination of timely and useful information.

As a 501(c) (3) organization, EPE is an integral part of the nation’s small but influential sector of nonprofit journalism. At a time of enormous economic pressures on for-profit news organizations, nonprofits like EPE are playing an increasingly important role in fulfilling the news media’s historic role as guardians of democracy.

Our flagship publication, Education Week, is “American education’s newspaper of record,” with a staff of more than 40 reporters and editors dedicated to covering pre-collegiate education. Published both in print and on our award-winning Web site, edweek.org, Education Week is a trusted and authoritative source of education news and analysis. We have a subscriber base of more than 50,000 and a “pass-along” readership of nearly 160,000 others.

The seven-person EPE Research Center conducts a range of original research each year that populates the Research Center section of edweek.org and that feeds into the weekly reporting in Education Week. The EPE Research Center also conducts the data-gathering and analysis that undergirds Quality Counts, our annual report card on public education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and Diplomas Count, an annual publication on high school graduation issues and rates.

Convinced that significant school improvement could only come with the commitment of well-informed teachers, EPE launched Teacher Magazine in August 1989 to serve the professional community of teacher-leaders. In 2007, in response to the changing media market, we transitioned the award-winning print magazine to a Web site dedicated to developing teacher leadership.

Also in 2007, we launched Digital Directions, an Education Week-branded publication appearing both in print and online, that focuses on trends and advice for education technology leaders and administrators.

In addition, our new-projects division, created in 1992, has pursued several approaches to expanding EPE’s reach. Most notable was the creation of the edweek.org Web site. Today, the site serves up nearly 2 million “hits” to hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month. It routinely hosts live Web chats with key education players, and houses the most comprehensive education news Archives to be found on the Web. More than 740,000 users have registered to use the site. In 2002, we launched the Education Week Press, the book division of EPE. The Press publishes books by EPE staff members, as well as outside authors, on school policy and reform.

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Over the years, EPE has sought to capitalize on the organization’s unique assets: It has created one of the best information-gathering systems in American education; it has assembled the best collection of education writers in the nation; more than 26 years of publishing Education Week has resulted in an extensive and valuable database of information on education; and, finally, EPE has established itself as an independent source of accurate and objective information in the field.