“NBC, 1 week for education, 51
weeks for incarceration” Lewis Black states after showing a clip of NBC news
followed by a clip of NBC’s program Lockup. It seems his view of the media’s
coverage of and interest in the current education system is joke. Mike Rose in
his article said “To have the media, middle-brow and high-brow, quit giving
such a free pass to the claims and initiatives of the Department of Education
and school reformers.” To me both Black and Rose agree on the media’s coverage
of the education system needing an upgrade of time and substance. Mike Rose’s
article says “To stop looking for the structural or technological magic bullet
– whether it’s charter schools or value-added analysis – that will improve
education”. Lewis Black, in the video, shows a charter school that uses a
lottery system to choose its students where many are left out of a possibly
good future. This seems to be a negative view of charter schools from each
Black and Rose. "I'm pretty sure schools shouldn't be the nicest building
you'll ever be inside. I went to school in an empty carton of Pall Malls.”
Lewis Black said this after showing a clip from NBC where they show a school
that cost $578 million dollars. I didn't see anything in Rose’s article about
the cost that is wasted in building lavish schools at the detriment of possible
school funds that could be used for students. That doesn't necessarily mean
Rose didn't feel the same way, it just wasn't mentioned in the article that I
could see. I didn't see Lewis Black dive
into the test score standard as did Mike Rose when he said “To stop making the
standardized test score the gold-standard of student achievement and teacher
effectiveness.” I think Lewis Black’s picture was more of an overall complaint
of the education system problems and Mike Rose was offering suggestions on how
to fix many of the current education systems failures.
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