Where's the 2009 love?

01-05-2010

Blog by Patrick Riccards/Eduflak

Yes, I recognize that we have started a new year. But Eduflack is also mindful of the words of Winston Churchill that "those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it." So I can't start the new year without looking over those lovely Year in Review editions put out by Time and Newsweek last week. Those of us who have been hip deep in the education improvement movement often operate with blinders on, believing that the topics and issues that we are focused on are what the entire world are most concerned with. About a month ago, Brookings came out with a study calculating that only 1.4 percent of the national news coverage in 2009 was education-related. (Personally, as painful as the statistic was, I'd hate to see that number if we excluded coverage of Teach for America and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation). (more...)

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