''Education Week'' is an independent news organization that has covered K–12 education since 1981. It is owned by Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), a

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, and headquartered in

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in Greater Washington DC. The newspaper publishes 37 issues a year, including three special annual reports (''Quality Counts'', ''Technology Counts'', and ''Leaders to Learn From''). From 1997 to 2010, ''Quality Counts'' was sponsored by the Pew Center on the States.

History

In 1957, Corbin Gwaltney, founder and then editor of ''Johns Hopkins Magazine'' for alumni of

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...

, and a group of other university alumni magazine editors came together to discuss writing on higher education and decided to form Editorial Projects for Education (EPE), a nonprofit educational organization. Soon after, Gwaltney left Johns Hopkins Magazine to become the first full-time employee of the newly created EPE, starting in an office in his apartment in

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and later moving to an office near the Johns Hopkins campus. He realized that higher education would benefit from a news publication. Gwaltney and other board members of EPE met to plan a new publication. In 1966, EPE published the first issue of ''

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''. In 1978, EPE sold ''Chronicle'' to its editors and shifted its attention. With the support of several philanthropies, EPE went on to launch ''Education Week'' under the leadership of Ronald A. Wolk. The first issue of ''Education Week'' appeared on September 7, 1981, and sought to provide ''Chronicle''-like coverage of elementary and secondary education. It launched with a splash by running a scoop about efforts by President Ronald Reagan's administration to downgrade the U.S. Department of Education, which was then still in its infancy. In August 1981, EPE officially changed the name to Editorial Projects in Education.

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