Methodology
The Media Bullpen monitors the education press nationally and in the fifty states. Using baseball analogies, the team of Bullpen writers rates each story based on how well it explains the issue being reported, as well as balance, context, accuracy and whether they present a comprehensive look at the variety of issues involving education in the given state. Each issue and state has a reliability score, which is cumulatively tallied over time. The percentage for each state was translated into a letter grade.
Media Reliability
Since its launch in February, The Media Bullpen has monitored the education press nationally and in the fifty states. Each day hundreds of stories are produced in the media about education, but they often lack the context for the public to get engaged. The Bullpen empowers the public to put in context what they see and hear. The problem is not that education is under-reported; the larger issue is that all too often, it is misreported. Balance, context, sound data, and an institutional knowledge of the many issues are often missing. Each issue and state has a reliability score, which is cumulatively tallied over time.