Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition Wins High School Periodical of the Year Award

The Classroom Edition is the first back-to-back winner and the only three-time honoree in the category since it was created by AEP in 2002. The other contenders for the top award were Next Step Magazine, Weekly Reader's Current Health 2 and the New York Times's high-school newsmagazine, Upfront.

The Classroom Edition also won Best Editorial for an Allen Barra piece on sports salaries, and Best Interview/Profile for Dennis Nishi's Q&A with a reality-TV producer. The awards were presented Tuesday evening at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

"This is a proud moment for our publication, but also a wonderful tribute to the entire Journal staff and our design team at Toolbox Studios," said Krishnan Anantharaman, managing editor of the Classroom Edition. "It's an honor to be able to share their work with high school students across the country."

Another Journal publication, "Reading, Writing, Thriving," received the award for Professional Development/Curriculum Instruction products. The guidebook, developed by a Lafayette College business professor and edited by the Classroom Edition's staff in Detroit, helps college instructors integrate content from The Wall Street Journal into their business curricula. The booklet is available for download at http://info.wsj.com/professor/new/pdf/JIE-GD-1009-RBUCKIS.pdf.

Starting this fall, the monthly Classroom Edition newspaper will be circulated in more than 9,000 high schools and middle schools across the US, with an estimated readership of 1 million students.