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Barack Obama Education Policy

The President's Preschool Proposal: What It Is and What It Isn't

Jared Bernstein | Posted 03.26.2013 | Politics
Jared Bernstein

Putting a bunch more kids in Head Start is not what's being proposed here. The main proposal is a partnership with states to ensure that all four-year-old kids from moderate and low-income families have access to quality preschool.

Mr. President, My Students Deserve Better

Randy Turner | Posted 04.15.2013 | Politics
Randy Turner

In this country, an education should not only be a pathway to a better job, but a pathway to a better life.

Only Four In Ten D.C. Third Graders Are Proficient Readers, Report Finds

The Huffington Post | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 02.04.2013 | DC

Only four in 10 D.C. third-graders are proficient readers and even fewer are proficient in math, according to a report release Monday. According to...

2nd Term Education Agenda Driven By Uncertainty, Things That Can't Wait

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN | Posted 01.19.2013 | Home

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's education agenda for next four years may look less like real reform and more like tying up loose ends, exp...

Joy Resmovits

Barack Obama's Big Education Choice

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.08.2012 | Home

In Rick Hess's eyes, President Barack Obama has a big choice to make. "The president campaigned with a different face of education reform than what...

What 4 More Years For Obama Means For Education

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 01.07.2013 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. President Barack Obama's victory on Tuesday gives him a chance to build on the education p...

Education A Top Election Issue For Voters, Polling Results Show

Posted 11.06.2012 | Home

Education was largely absent from the election just months before, but polling results Monday reveal that education has emerged as a top issue among e...

Education In The Election: Education Became An Unexpected Star In The Campaign

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 01.06.2013 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Education may not have topped the average voter's priority list this ye...

Sabrina Siddiqui

Mitt Romney's Last-Minute Education Pitch

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 11.04.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON -- For the last year, education advocates have been trying to get the subject of America's beleaguered public schools onto the agenda of th...

Loving Teachers Isn't Enough: Education Reform in the Election

Alyssa Granacki | Posted 01.01.2013 | Home
Alyssa Granacki

Of all the campaign issues, education is certainly the one on which President Obama and Governor Romney seem to share the most middle ground. However, at the heart of their ideologies, the two men diverge.

What Does Loving Teachers Have To Do With Foreign Policy?

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 12.26.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. In the final moments of the third presidential debate, a somewhat exasperated moderator, B...

Joy Resmovits

Romney Adviser Calls Head Start 'A Social Experience'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.18.2012 | Home

NEW YORK -- When it comes to the nuts and bolts of education policy, a topic that ranks high among the concerns of female and Latino voters, Mitt Romn...

Obama's Education Fixation

Meghana Bansal | Posted 10.10.2012 | Teen
Meghana Bansal

Almost all political pundits have denounced President Obama's uninspiring debate performance Wednesday night, but more curious than his seeming lack of preparation was his fixation on education.

Obama Administration Awards $290 Million In Grants To Incentivize Top Teachers

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN | Posted 09.28.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is awarding $290 million in grants to reward top teachers and boost opportunities for teachers who work in impo...

Obama: 'We Can Step Up Our Game" In American Education

Posted 11.25.2012 | Home

The president couldn't join the live Education Nation discussion at New York Public LIbrary Tuesday, but did a pre-taped interview with NBC's Savannah...

Is The Chicago Teachers Strike Hurting Obama?

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 11.17.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. The Chicago teachers strike, which entered its fifth day on Friday, cou...

Teachers' Unions Will Still Push Hard For Obama Despite Strike Tension

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 11.12.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. The head of one of the country's largest teachers unions knows all too well the frustratio...

Education In America: Why It Matters In The Election

AP | CAROLE FELDMAN | Posted 11.11.2012 | Home

The issue: States and local governments have the primary responsibility for education in the United States. But the federal government gets a big say...

Chicago Strike Spotlights Linchpin Of Obama Ed Policy

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 09.11.2012 | Home

-- One of the key disagreements driving Chicago teachers to the picket lines this week is also a central component of President Barack Obama's educat...

Obama: America Can 'Out-Educate And Out-Compete' Any Country On Earth

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 11.07.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. President Barack Obama had barely begun his acceptance speech at the De...

Michelle Rhee: How Obama -- Or Romney -- Should Change Education

| Sarah Butrymowicz | Posted 09.06.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of Washington, D.C.’s public schools...

Paul Tough: The Obama Administration's Big Missed Opportunity

| Posted 11.04.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. What if much of what we think we know about success is wrong? What if the metrics we use i...

Obama, Romney Battle Over Private Sector In Education

Reuters | Posted 10.25.2012 | Home

By Stephanie Simon WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - On the campaign trail during the past week, President Barack Obama talked a lot abou...

Joy Resmovits

Romney 'Better Positioned' Than John McCain Was On Education, Poll Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.21.2012 | Home

NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama is attacking presumed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on education this week in speeches, videos and radio adv...

No Child Left Behind: Not Dead Yet

stateline | Ben Wieder | Posted 10.14.2012 | Home

This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States that provides daily r...