'ROUNDING THE GLOBE'-10: What does STAND stand for? There are a host of journalistic sins. When it comes to its coverage of education policy, the Boston Globe has committed all of them: selective sourcing in news, exclusion of dissenting … [Read more...]
Rachel Maddow Takes out Full Page Ad in Globe: “I’m Not Running”
"Hi, I'm Rachel Maddow. I host a TV show on MSNBC. I also live in Western Massachusetts, in the beautiful hilltowns of Hampshire County. "This week, our new U.S. Senator, Scott Brown, sent a fundraising letter that says I'm running against … [Read more...]
THE ‘ROUNDING THE GLOBE’ BLOG-8: Continuing Analysis of How The Globe Covers Ed Policy
'Rounding the Globe'- 8: Dropout Rates We Have Known This is submission from the "Better-Late-Than-Never" Dept. On March 14, 2010, the Boston Globe published a curious editorial, which followed up on a news story reporting a decline in the … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 6: Does one right makes two wrongs?
She then went on to discuss the startling, new positions of education scholar Diane Ravitch, once an advocate and now a critic of testing, charters, standards, and school closings. Incredibly, the Globe has still not followed the lead of … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 5: One Op Ed You Will Not Be Reading
This is one op ed you won't be reading in the Boston Globe. The Globe decided to "pass on it," as they have on most other dissenting education policy pieces over the past 17 years. What is the sound does an op ed page make without even one … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 3: Twelve Underperforming Schools To Be ‘Shaken-Up’ in Boston
Ho-hum. It was the usual one-two punch in the Globe today. James Vaznis reported on the Boston superintendent's announcement that 12 'underperforming" Boston school will be shaken-up. Boston superintendent Carol Johnson announced that five … [Read more...]
ROUNDING THE GLOBE 2: How Ravitch Got Disappeared in the Boston Globe
Yesterday, I launched a continuing feature on this page called "Rounding the Globe," which will be my best effort to keep the Globe's feet to the fire when it comes to editorial, op eds, and reportage about education policy. I will be … [Read more...]
ROUNDING ‘THE GLOBE’
ROUNDING 'THE GLOBE': A Teacher's Perspective on Ed Reform The attack on public education-and on the meaning of education itself-though the promotion of for-profit charters and the mandating of excessive testing was facilitated by two … [Read more...]
Globe calls it for Coakley!
With a little more than 7 hours left, the Globe has called the race for Coakley. I don't know how long the mistake will remain online, so I took a screen capture. If you check out the numbers, and you add Brown and Kennedy, … [Read more...]
Owned by Moguls, Written by Interns
My wife (much more hot-tempered than me) writes to the Globe: Hello Boston Globe: My husband and I are long-time Boston Globe subscribers. The paper gets more irritating with every passing week. For now we'll pass over issues of writing … [Read more...]
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