ABSTRACT
Publication of Recent Research on the Achievements of Ethnic Minority Pupils was very widely reported in the national press and in ethnic minority newspapers, and there was also considerable coverage in the local press. In addition, it was reported in some specialist education publications: The Times Education Supplement and in Guardian Education. In this chapter, I will focus first of all on where in each publication the Review was covered and on the amount of coverage given to it. These features will be used to assess the prominence assigned to the story. The rest of the chapter will be concerned with the way the Review was presented: in the headlines, and then in the reports themselves. I will look at variation in how it was described as a source; in the balance of emphasis given, respectively, to its findings and to the government’s and others’ reactions to it. Finally, in relation to the Review’s findings and recommendations, I will look at how these were formulated in newspaper reports, in particular at implied explanations for ethnic educational inequality and indications of where praise, blame and remedy (if required) might lie.
