All Posts Tagged: 'Barack Obama'


What is Obama’s Mandate?

November 6th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized

Echoing Eduwonk, there’s no use guessing who will be tapped as the next Secretary of Education. It’ll be relatively low on the list of nominations, so things like whether Obama has the right balance of Chicago people, governors, Republicans, and other political calculations make the whole speculation moot. Other decisions come first, and those will [...]

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Scalpel

September 30th, 2008 | Category: Accountability

Mike Petrilli mischaracterizes what it means for a program to be labeled “ineffective” by the Office of Management and Budget’s Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART). His argument starts with the presidential debate last week with this exchange:
LEHRER: What I’m trying to get at this is this. Excuse me if I may, senator. Trying to get [...]

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McCain on Obama on Education

September 9th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized

In a new John McCain adverstisement, an announcer says the following about Barack Obama’s record on education:
Education Week says Obama “hasn’t made a significant mark on education”. That he’s “elusive” on accountability. A “staunch defender of the existing public school monopoly.”
You have to watch the ad carefully to pick up the sourcing, which doesn’t exactly [...]

Posted by Kevin Carey at 3:49 pm | Tags: , , , , , | 3 Comments

The Obama Education Speech

September 9th, 2008 | Category: Uncategorized

Barack Obama delivered what his campaign billed as a “major policy address” on education today in Dayton, Ohio. Excerpts from the prepared remarks and comments below:
Every four years, we hear about how this time, we’re going to make [education] an urgent national priority. Remember the 2000 election, when George W. Bush promised to be the [...]

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Obama on Affirmative Action

August 4th, 2008 | Category: Undergraduate Education

As the New York Times noted yesterday, Barack Obama sensibly believes that his daughters shouldn’t benefit from affirmative action when they apply to college, particularly if it comes at the expense of less-privileged white applicants. Applying a much stronger economic lens to college admissions is a good idea and I’m glad Obama agrees. Because college [...]

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Obama’s Plan(ning) for Education

October 29th, 2007 | Category: Accountability

So it looks like Obama’s going to announce a plan on education. Good. Now, c’mon. With a record of ideas and nearly a year now on the Education Committee, you’ve got plenty of good stuff to work with. We’re waiting and we’re expecting something better than this.

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Teaching Inequality

June 8th, 2006 | Category: Teacher Quality

Since the early 1970s, many states have been convulsed with high-profile crises and lawsuits focused on school funding. School districts and advocates have gone to the barricades on behalf of low-income students, fighting for their fair share of society’s educational resources.
But no one every learned anything (or at least, anything worth knowing) from a stack [...]

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