The Education Writers Association’s fellowships provide financial awards to journalists to undertake ambitious reporting projects.

To help journalists boost their reporting on key education issues, the 22nd round will offer up to $5,000 to support stand-alone stories and smaller-scale projects on early childhood education, K-12 or postsecondary education.

We are looking for projects that address any of the following:

Early Childhood Education Topics

• Early learning, such as policy, systems-building, governance, funding and/or the early learning workforce.

K-12 Topics

• K-12 special education, including learning disabilities (such as dyslexia and dyscalculia) and related neurological processing challenges. Stories might focus on students with specific diagnoses, as well as challenges for students who face a disconnect between their learning styles and how instruction is typically delivered. Projects might also focus on issues related to equity and access.
• K-12 reporting on arts education, after-school learning, summer learning, and the work and challenges of school principals.

Higher Education Topics

• Efforts to remove structural barriers for low-income students in postsecondary settings.
• Efforts to help students navigate key transitions in their postsecondary journey, such as through workforce training, transferring between institutions and entering or re-entering the workforce.
• Efforts to improve and expand postsecondary access and success in rural areas, including through training and connecting students to good jobs.
• Efforts to support higher education programs for incarcerated students.
• Efforts to expand postsecondary pathways to meaningful employment.
• Efforts to reform higher education, such as improving the credit mobility process.