Mark Walsh is a contributing writer to Education Week. He has covered education issues for more than two decades and in this blog looked at how schools are covered in the general news media and in the popular culture. This blog is no longer being updated.
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'The Nightly Show,' Which Sometimes Skewered Education, Is Canceled
After two seasons, Thursday is the final episode of the Comedy Central show, in which Larry Wilmore occasionally trained his satire on U.S. education.
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Harvard's Paul Peterson Stepping Down From the Helm of Education Next
The political scientist and education scholar will be succeeded as editor-in-chief by Martin R. West, an associate professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
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'Sesame Street' Drops Three Longtime Cast Members, None of Them Muppets
Sesame Workshop confirms that three cast members have been dropped from the children's educational TV show, including one who has appeared since the beginning.
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Political Conventions Draw More Education Reporters Looking for an Angle
Among the 15,000 members of the media in Cleveland and Philadelphia this month are a handful who primarily looking for education stories and angles.
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HBO to Viewers: Please Report to the 'Vice Principals' Time Slot
The show about two administrators vying to lead a high school has lots of swearing and farce, but offers sharp satire on education bureaucracy.
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'Life, Animated': An Inspiring Tale of How Disney Films Help a Boy With Autism
The documentary tells the story of Owen Suskind, who has regressive autism but used Disney movies to learn to communicate with his family and others.
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'Raising Bertie' Documentary Is a Slow-Paced Look at Rural Youths and Education
The film follows three young men over six years in a rural North Carolina community as they struggle to finish high school.
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'Newtown' Documentary Shows Poignant Aftermath of School Shooting Tragedy
The documentary is an unavoidably sad but gripping film about the 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which killed 20 students and six school employees.
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Longtime Education Week Editor to Depart
Virginia B. Edwards, the editor of Education Week since 1989, will step down at the end of July, to be succeeded as president by Michele J. Givens.
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ABC News Veteran Joins Education Week as Correspondent
The move reflects the continued expansion of Education Week's multiplatform journalism. EdWeek moved aggressively into video and TV last summer, with the acquisition of Learning Matters TV.
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AEI Study Finds Slight Negative Tilt in Media Coverage of Charter Schools
The American Enterprise Institute examined more than 200 articles from 2015 and found that 49 percent were neutral, 36 percent were negative, and 15 percent were positive.
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Many Fast-Moving Topics at The Atlantic's 2nd Annual Education Summit
The magazine's conference in Washington will address common core, Detroit and Newark schools, the high costs of college, and race and speech issues on campus.
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Chelsea Handler Netflix Show Debuts With Ed. Secretary John B. King Jr.
The author and comedian seeks to use television to continue her education, and hosts the latest U.S. Secretary of Education as her first guest.
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Boston Review Essayist and Respondents Ask, 'What Is Education For?'
The political journal debates whether a focus on vocational education and global competitiveness has crowded civics education out of the school system.