Virginia B. Edwards

As president of Editorial Projects in Education, Virginia B. Edwards oversees the nearly 80-person, $13 million-a-year nonprofit corporation that publishes Education Week and edweek.org.  She has held the post since 1997.

Ms. Edwards has been the editor of Education Week – the premier “newspaper of record” for pre-collegiate education in the United States – since 1989.  The newspaper, which covers policy developments in K-12 education, has a paid circulation of about 50,000 and is read by more than 260,000 others.  The newspaper also publishes three highly anticipated reports each year: Quality Counts (on state education policy), Technology Counts (on education technology), and Diplomas Count (on high school graduation). 

For the past 14 years, she has also served as the editor and publisher of edweek.org.  Currently, edweek.org serves up more than two million page views to hundreds of thousands of unique visitors each month.  In addition, more than 285,000 people now subscribe to the site’s daily newsletter, EdWeek Update, and hundreds of thousands have subscribed to a growing array of themed weekly and monthly e-newsletters.  Among its other offerings, the site routinely hosts live Webinars and online chats with key education players and houses the most comprehensive K-12 education news Archives to be found anywhere on the Web.

EPE also publishes Digital Directions, an Education Week-branded magazine for the school-technology market, and the Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook, which is published twice a year and includes a one-of-a-kind directory of professional development products and services for teachers.  EPE is also home to the TopSchoolJobs.org job-recruitment service, the EPE Research Center, and a recently launched series of “live” events for top-level education policymakers and administrators. 

Before joining EPE, Ms. Edwards worked for two years for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and, for the nearly 10 years before that, was an editor and reporter at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky.

A frequent speaker on education-policy and media issues, Ms. Edwards serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including the Center on Education Policy, the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, the Student Press Law Center, the Center for Teaching Quality, and Learning Matters.