Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Haynes, Jasmine Elise
Author's Email Address	jhayne9@lsu.edu
URN	etd-07092010-102940
Title	The Role of Race in Television News Coverage of Shortcomings in U.S. Secondary Education
Degree	Master of Mass Communication (M.M.C.)
Department	Mass Communication
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title McNealy, Jasmine Committee Chair Freeman, Craig Committee Member Sanders, Meghan Committee Member
Keywords	cultural and political forces symbolic racism
Date of Defense	2010-07-06
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Scholars and news media alike acknowledge that one of the main problems in education today is the minority achievement gaps in national testing. Although many education scholars have compiled several in-depth reasons as to why minorities, particularly African-American students, seem to generally lag behind their white counterparts, television news fails to give it’s audiences a comprehensive view of why minority achievement gaps are so prevalent in United States secondary public education. The purpose of this study was to examine where news consumers perceive television news places blame for problems in public education with regards to race. Studying how people perceive where television news places blame for minority gaps in academic achievement will build on the arguments of previous research that minorities are underrepresented as victims of social and political problems. Through a descriptive online survey of quantitative responses, this study assesses respondents’ political affiliations and perspectives, their views on race, racial achievement gaps and television news coverage of those gaps. This study will discuss some of the major research on why African-Americans and other minorities struggle with academic achievement more than Whites and how television news rarely, if ever, covers these issues nor provide context to stories on African-Americans and education.
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