For over four decades, Education Week has been committed to advancing high-quality education for all students. Philanthropic partnerships have been essential to supporting our mission of inspiring and empowering the nation’s practitioners and change-makers since our founding.
Today, funding from dozens of generous foundation partners supports our general operations, underwrites specific enterprise journalism projects, and helps us launch exciting new lines of work to meet the field’s urgent and constantly evolving needs. These partnerships—large and small—share a commitment to improving the experiences of students and educators through high-impact, independent news, information, and resources.
Today, funding from dozens of generous foundation partners supports our general operations, underwrites specific enterprise journalism projects, and helps us launch exciting new lines of work to meet the field’s urgent and constantly evolving needs. These partnerships—large and small—share a commitment to improving the experiences of students and educators through high-impact, independent news, information, and resources.
General Operations
Keeping up with today’s fast-paced world takes a well-resourced newsroom of experienced reporters and editors, researchers, visual journalists, and producers. Supporting Education Week through general operating funds enables us to make the significant investments in the people, production capacity, and technology infrastructure needed to tell the story of American education. The whole story—covering the entire country and beyond, spanning numerous topical areas, elevating diverse voices from across the field, and delivering news, information, and insights across multiple media platforms.
Enterprise Journalism Projects
Education Week is known for delivering both comprehensive coverage that spans numerous topical areas and enterprise reporting projects that go deep into the specific issues that shape conditions in the nation’s schools today and the opportunities of its students in the years ahead.
These special initiatives often combine independent news reporting with research, video and multimedia productions, first-person opinion features, and convenings. Undertaking projects such as these, which are unique and designed to maximize our impact on the focal issues and audience needs, are not possible without grant underwriting from our philanthropic partners.
These special initiatives often combine independent news reporting with research, video and multimedia productions, first-person opinion features, and convenings. Undertaking projects such as these, which are unique and designed to maximize our impact on the focal issues and audience needs, are not possible without grant underwriting from our philanthropic partners.
The State of Teaching
Teachers are the backbone of America's schools, but the future of the profession is in a precarious state. The expertise and skill required to do the job well is often underestimated, while the ever-increasing demands of the job are not well understood or sometimes misrepresented. This is why Education Week has launched a project to portray the reality of teaching and help guide more effective policies and practices for the workforce of more than 3 million educators: The State of Teaching.
This ambitious project couples in-depth reporting with an annual nationally representative survey of teachers, engaging interactive content and events, and practical resources for educators. And in 2024, the project introduced a new representative survey of teachers in every state. Philanthropic support for this effort makes possible the extensive reporting and research initiatives that will let us shed light on the experiences, attitudes, and morale of the nation's educators. Through this ongoing project, Education Week strives to take the pulse of the profession, highlight teachers’ successes and challenges, and use those insights to explore what system leaders, policymakers, principals, and educators themselves can do to build a stronger, more sustainable profession.
This ambitious project couples in-depth reporting with an annual nationally representative survey of teachers, engaging interactive content and events, and practical resources for educators. And in 2024, the project introduced a new representative survey of teachers in every state. Philanthropic support for this effort makes possible the extensive reporting and research initiatives that will let us shed light on the experiences, attitudes, and morale of the nation's educators. Through this ongoing project, Education Week strives to take the pulse of the profession, highlight teachers’ successes and challenges, and use those insights to explore what system leaders, policymakers, principals, and educators themselves can do to build a stronger, more sustainable profession.