STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
After a close analysis of education coverage in the general news media during 2012, the Hoover Institution’s
Koret Task Force on K–12 Education today released its list of the five most covered stories (“hits”) and the five most important but
neglected stories (“misses”).
The hits are based on content analyses of 21,514 education stories in
forty-three media outlets: newspapers, magazines, television networks, websites, and more. The misses represent K-12 education issues that
task force members judged were important enough to deserve more extensive coverage than they received.
Hits
- Charter schools
- Teachers’ unions
- Special education
- Pre-Kindergarten education
- No Child Left Behind
Misses
- The cost of teachers’ pensions
- Common Core academic standards
- International comparisons of student achievement
- Online or digital learning
- Louisiana’s education reforms
“We analyzed news stories and opinion pieces in two dozen newspapers, ten magazines, five
Press Release: Hoover Institution – 2 hours 19 minutes ago
