Lewis Black VS. Mike Rose

“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.