Media: Ed Writers Announce 2012 Winners

Some of my favorites among this year's EWA contest winners culled from 340 submissions include: Dana Goldstein, The American Prospect, The Test Generation, Sarah Karp, Catalyst Chicago, The Right Move?.

Some of those I haven't read but am looking forward to are William McKenzie, The Dallas Morning News, Education Reform, John O’Connor and Sarah Gonzalez, StateImpact Florida, StateImpact Florida Blog Coverage, Fawn Johnson, National Journal, Report Card, Gendy Alimurung, LA Weekly, Bad Lunch, and Cathey O'Donnell and Gary Stern, The Journal News, Too Big to Fix.

Last but not least, congrats to some of the folks I've worked with / for, including Nancy Walser, Harvard Education Publishing Group, Harvard Education Letter’s Education Coverage, John Merrow, John Tulenko, Cat McGrath and David Wald, PBS NewsHour/Learning Matters, 2010-2011 Learning Matters Compilation, and Emily Hanford, Catherine Winter and Stephen Smith, American Public Media, Don’t Lecture Me.

Comments

[Bruce]

"The Test Generation" really is superb; it's one of the few (of the very many) articles I've read that I've marked as a favorite for reference. In particular, paragraph 37, which begins "Rival groups", is a favorite portion that I like to copy, paste, and send to friends and colleagues; after reading just that, it's hard to justify any of these new value-added-oriented pieces of legislation that have been sweeping through the statehouses in the last year or so.

For more on this point, I recommend Howard Wainer's "Uneducated Guesses" (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9529.html).