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More information on Education Nation page

Hi,

My name is Meghan and I work at NBC News on our Education Nation initiative. This page on Wiki seems a bit out of date and limited in the information offered. We just wrapped up our second annual Education Nation Summit and we have lots of news and information to share and to update this page with. Any topics on updating the page would be greatly appreciated, otherwise, I'll go ahead and add more background information on here with references.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Megpianta (talk • contribs) 18:58, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This "article" is a puff piece. As is the comment above, straight from NBC's PR dept. More to the point, article ought to reflect the fact that the conference was panned in Forbes business news: http://www.forbes.com/sites/maxrobins/2013/10/10/nbc-news-wants-to-be-the-education-network-the-way-george-w-bush-wanted-to-be-the-education-president/

The NBC News series “Education Nation” sold itself as a a serious national dialog on the state of education in America that would include grass roots voices as well as those making and implementing policy. In reality, “Education Nation” which just wrapped up its fourth annual edition, may be more marketing ploy than a true forum for reform.

“The takeaway is that NBC News is being used as a stalking horse for the privatization and monetization of education,” says Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the Tyndall Report, that has been analyzing news content for more than 25 years.

Tyndall observes that’s it’s little surprise that the University of Phoenix is an “Education Nation” sponsor — the for-profit, open admissions institution has come under fire for tuition rates that are 200-300 percent more than community colleges and its extremely high attrition rates.

Other “Education Nation” sponsors include Pearson PSO -1.01%, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the W.K Kellogg K -0.12% Foundation and ExxonMobil.

“The takeaway is that NBC News is being used as a stalking horse for the privatization and monetization of education,” says Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the Tyndall Report, that has been analyzing news content for more than 25 years.

Other “Education Nation” sponsors include Pearson PSO -1.01%, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the W.K Kellogg K -0.12% Foundation and ExxonMobil.

With “Education Nation” NBC News wants to be the education network the way George W. Bush wanted to be the education president. It’s a crowd pleasing palliative to the audience and advertisers, but the result is as much window-dressing as anything. It’s true that NBC News gives more time to education than its competition at the broadcast and cable news networks. Still it’s a crucial area that gets scant coverage. Last year, “ABC World News,” “CBS Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” combined, spent barely 2 percent of their time on education issues,” according to The Tyndall Report database.