Cheap Shots & Careless Inaccuracies---Public Schools Don’t Need This Treatment
If the mainstream press reporting on public schools wasn’t important, I wouldn’t be writing this blog post. But, the fact is that the general public gets its information about public education (and private education) from the mainstream press both in print and online, so how our work is depicted is key to the support we get from the public we serve. Last week, Jay Matthews, the education reporter/columnist for my home town newspaper, The Washington Post,not only misrepresented how successful school districts operate, he also got his facts wrong.
In a story early in the week, Matthews profiled the successful tenure of the superintendents of the two largest schools districts in the Washington, DC metropolitan area: Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland. The majority of the article was a balanced
