Where’s the school news?

By at 3 December, 2009, 2:09 pm

The national media is all but AWOL when it comes to covering education news, especially when it comes to "school reform, teacher quality, or other matters thought to be crucial for educational attainment," the Brookings Institute says in this new study . During the first nine months of 2009, only 1.4 percent of national news coverage from television, newspapers, news Web sites, and radio dealt with education. This paucity of coverage is not unique to 2009. In 2008, only 0.7 percent of national news coverage involved education, while 1.0 percent did so in 2007. This makes it difficult for the public

to follow the issues at stake in our education debates and to understand how to improve school performance. The local reporting is much more substantial, the report says, but "it is difficult for local outlets to maintain the quality of their coverage in the face of financial cutbacks and staff layoffs." Among Brookings' recommendations: "Publishers and editors should find ways to integrate quality education blogs and forms of citizen journalism into press outlets. Newspapers could develop their own blogs and community talkbacks, and also provide links to education blogs that already exist in the community."

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Where’s the school news?

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