📰 MEDIA DO-OVER ON TEACHERS

Pay no attention to the fact that media outlets are producing much more sympathetic portrayals than teachers than in the past.

📰 TIME COVER STORY CONTROVERSY

The broad-brush portrayal of teachers as martyrs plays into “a Victorian melodrama,” notes one reporter.

📰 WHEN THE DATA IS NO GOOD

It’s been a bad year for education data — and for reporters who treat studies without enough skepticism.

📰 OVER-COVERING DIVERSITY IN NYC

So far, at least, the media coverage has eclipsed the actual effort – and distracted from other topics.

📰 TEACHER EVALUATION REFORM WAS NOT A FAILURE

Once in a while, someone writes something you don’t expect them to write.

📰  ABOUT THAT ‘EDUCATION DESERTS’ STORY

When the data doesn’t match the conclusions, that’s what Kaiser Fung calls “story time.”

📰  WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CHARTER  MORATORIUM?

Media outlets don’t often go back and update readers on last year’s news. But they should.

📰  STILL SHY ABOUT NEWSROOM DIVERSITY

Even in 2018, many newsrooms won’t share information about their demographics.

📰  NOT ENOUGH TEACHER SOURCES

The lack of teacher sources is a major problem, says the author of a new book about school discipline.

📰 “SPECULATION IS NOT NEWS”

Vanessa Otero is roiling the journalism world with her Media Bias chart and zingy tweets.