Education Nation: A Mostly Great First Effort for NBC
Outgoing NBC chief Jeff Zucker and news head Steve Capus deserve credit for an all in multi-channel commitment to Education Nation.  Despite rain induced facilities challenges it was a good first year outing.
The NBC family, especially MSNBC, may a pretty strong embrace of the administration and the aligned edreform community. Â There were a lot of media folks but few of the edtech crowd (many of which were at the simultaneous EdNet in Boston). Â Panels seemed about a third off–heavy with sponsors, short of interesting people. Â NBC made a strong effort to have 50 great teachers around and in each session.
Tom Brokaw set a great tone and did a nice hour segment with Secretary Duncan on recruiting new teachers. Â Duncan was more compelling than Obama during his hour with Lauer where he was articulate but uninspired. Â As is always the case at conferences, the hallway chats were the most valuable.

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