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Dear online-news colleagues,
It gives me great pleasure to be able to announce that Education
Week on the Web has launched! We're not 100 percent up, but
pretty close.
So please come visit us at: http://www.edweek.org
Our goal is to be the first place on the Web people come to for
information about education reform, schools, and the policies that
guide them. (Please link to us!)
We have a huge resource base to start with. The heart of our site is
the full text of Education Week, American Education's Newspaper of
Record. We are also Web-publishing the award-winning monthly, Teacher
Magazine.
But we're not just putting these two publications on line.
Education Week on the Web is brimming with original material and
carefully cultivated links.
Need context? We've created background pages on 23 key educational
issues including school vouchers, charter schools, privatization,
desegregation, the Internet, and phonics. Each page begins with an
introductory essay and includes links to past Education Week articles
and selected pages elsewhere on the Web. We've created a glossary,
defining educational jargon in laymen's terms, and a list of
education organizations complete with descriptions and web-page
addresses. We've put together fact sheets on each state. And our
"Best of the Web" area provides carefully selected, detailed, and
annotated links to valuable education sites all over the world.
Through November, our "Election Watch" section is the best place we
know of to learn more about the presidential candidates' views on
education. In addition to extensive profiles of both men, you'll find
pages on 10 hot political issues in education including vouchers,
values, school prayer, unions, and immigrant children--and how
Clinton and Dole weigh in on each.
For a limited time, you'll even be able to search 15 years of news
and feature stories from Education Week and Teacher Magazine for
free.
Who are we? Our parent is Editorial Projects in Education Inc. We
are a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization based in Washington, D.C.
Our primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and
understanding among professionals and the public of important issues
in American education. We cover local, state, and national news and
issues from preschool through the 12th grade.
Funding for Education Week on the Web comes in part from the Carnegie
Corporation, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers
Foundation.
Feel free to contact us, by email or phone, if you have any
questions.
P.S. To the online-news crowd: Any advice on the best (free)
ways to get the word out would be greatfully accepted, too!
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Dan Froomkin voice: (202) 274-0103
dfroom@epe.org fax: (202) 364-1039
Editor of New Media 4301 Connecticut Ave., Suite 250
Education Week Washington, D.C. 20008
Education Week on the Web has launched! Check us out!
http://www.edweek.org
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