Greg Toppo at USA Todaylaments the general silence on the subject of education from presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Apart from a few sentences here and there about making college more affordable serious discussion about the state of our school system is yet another victim of the crisis on Wall Street. When the two have squared off on education, however, they’ve differed on key issues. Obama favors more federal funding for public schools, while McCain doesn’t see the need for new funding, and favors a taxpayer-funded voucher program to send kids to private schools.
Debate about education, despite its seeming second-class status in this election cycle, informs discussion about fixing our economic woes, solving the problem of burgeoning health care costs, and developing renewable energy resources. It’s going to take a lot of engineers, scientists, economists, accountants, and technology experts to deal with all of these issues — and tomorrow’s engineer is today’s kid sitting in 6th period algebra.
In three weeks we’re going to be electing a new President, and probably putting some fresh faces in Congress – take this opportunity to weigh in on where you stand on critical education issues we want to put before them when they take office. Take the education voters quiz:
Greg Toppo at USA Today laments the general silence on the subject of education from presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Apart from a few sentences here and there about making college more affordable serious discussion about the state of our school system is yet another victim of the crisis on Wall Street. When the two have squared off on education, however, they’ve differed on key issues. Obama favors more federal funding for public schools, while McCain doesn’t see the need for new funding, and favors a taxpayer-funded voucher program to send kids to private schools.
Debate about education, despite its seeming second-class status in this election cycle, informs discussion about fixing our economic woes, solving the problem of burgeoning health care costs, and developing renewable energy resources. It’s going to take a lot of engineers, scientists, economists, accountants, and technology experts to deal with all of these issues — and tomorrow’s engineer is today’s kid sitting in 6th period algebra.
In three weeks we’re going to be electing a new President, and probably putting some fresh faces in Congress – take this opportunity to weigh in on where you stand on critical education issues we want to put before them when they take office. Take the education voters quiz: