New Brookings Study: Little Media Coverage of Education
A new Brookings Institution study entitled “Invisible: 1.4 Percent Coverage for Education is Not Enough” by Darrell West, Russ Whitehurst, and E.J. Dionne finds that 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.