Road to the White House 2012: The Politics of Education

As we look to the presidential election, what impact will the politics of education have on the prospective presidential candidates? Issues such as school funding, charter schools, and teacher recruitment and promotion point to stark differences in opinions amongst teachers unions, school administrators, and other stakeholders. How will Obama's Race to the Top program affect the voters' pick for president?

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[qncsc]

the sine qua non missing from these arguments is the issue of "competition." it is so elementary but essential. everyone wants a competitive effect (end result): that the American student can compete globally as today is about a global labor force. yet no one really understands that to get that effect the input likewise has to have a "competitive" condition. that is why whomever advocates competition among classes, schools, districts, states advocates correctly the key issue.

[qncsc]

the biggest flaw in this education debate is this specialized-interest debate; and that debate is always in regard to latinos. this is a problem as it marginalizes everyone else and also gives attention to one group for arbitrary purposes. this has become a major flaw and impediment in education as it removes the focus from excellence and learning and corrupts it to focus on an ethnic-cultural group, when the group that should be the focus is the "general student."

[qncsc]

the thing about these forums: the sound is always horrible! it is so muted and unclear with whatever arrangement is being used. not just USC but all of these kinds of panel-formats have the tendency to have this problem. (yet the clapping is so loud that i have to mute the sound.)

recommendation: please do something to make the sound remarkable and listeners then can then be attracted to a format that is 1hr long! i want to listen but i am also straining against other noise to discern content.

[qncsc]

so the guys are representative of the conservative-republican AND the gals are representative of the liberal-democrat political bent!

surprise surprise.