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Hoover Institution Education Experts Identify News Media Hits and Misses in 2012 Education Coverage

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STANFORD—After a close analysis of education coverage in the general news media during 2012, the Hoover Institution’s Koret Task Force on K–12 Educationtoday 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:

1. Charter schools
2. Teachers’ unions
3. Special education
4. Pre-Kindergarten education
5. No Child Left Behind

Misses:

1. The cost of teachers’ pensions
2. Common Core academic standards
3. International comparisons of student achievement
4. Online or digital learning
5. Louisiana’s education reforms

“We analyzed news stories and opinion pieces in two dozen newspapers, ten magazines, five websites, and four national TV news programs over a twelve-month period,” said Williamson M. Evers, Hoover research fellow and