Survey: Americans want more news about teacher effectiveness
Americans want more news coverage of how teachers and students are performing, according to a surveyreleased today by the Brookings Institution.
More than 70 percent of respondents said that they wanted more news coverage of teacher effectiveness and of student academic performance. Nearly the same percentage want to know more about school safety, curriculum, finances and school reform.
In previous studies, the report’s authors have found that education policy and curriculum issues are frequently under-covered in national news. Of the national news stories on education examined in a 2009