Teacher’s Attitudes toward Press Coverage of Pre-University Education Issues

The study explores teacher’s attitudes towards press coverage of pre-university education issues, as well as identifies the most important education issues from the teachers’ point of view and the problems that the press must covered in future. Also, this study investigates the relationship between teacher’s attitudes towards media framing and demographic variables. Thus, it conducted a survey to collect data from (53) teachers working governmental schools. The study found that education development issues and modern curricula scored (56.6%), and it was one of the first important issues from the teachers’ point of view, and more explanations and news should be written about it, followed by monitoring school corruption cases with a rate of (50.9%). As for the problems facing the teachers and the press should coverage them in future, the first of these problems was the decrease in salaries of teachers by (66%), the appreciation of the teacher and the improvement of his image in the media by (45.2%). Regarding teachers’ attitudes towards the press framing of teacher issues, (92.5%) agreed that the problem presented by El Wafd regarding their low wages. Then, the support frame for El Wafd obtains the approval of only (33) teachers, at a rate of (62.3%), in which it clarifies how the teachers syndicate seeks to increase the wage scale by presenting a new schedule for teachers' wages to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi with a relative weight of (78.6%). In addition, (32) teachers agreed that Japanese school teachers had received training on the tokasto system with a general relative weight of (80.6%) for the interpretative frame adopted by El Gomhoria. Finally, the study demonstrated the existence of an inverse correlation between age, job title and trends towards press coverage, however, there is no relationship between gender and trends towards press coverage.