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Edwards Announces Education Overhaul
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ABC News' Raelyn Johnson Reports: Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards today opened the announcement of his plan to overhaul public education with a personal peg.
"I grew up in a small, rural town and my parents didn’t have a lot of money. But I was lucky to have public school teachers who taught me to believe that somebody from a little town in North Carolina could do just about anything if he worked hard and played by the rules.”
In the speech delivered at a middle school in Des Moines, Iowa, Edwards, who considers himself a crusader for the middle class, said: "Every child deserves to have the same chances I had."
Edwards pitched his plan in three simple parts: Every child should be prepared to succeed when they show up in a classroom. Every classroom should by led by an excellent teacher. Every teacher should work in an outstanding school.
A cornerstone of Edwards proposed education overhaul offers alternatives to the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind, a popular reform item on the Democratic agenda.
"Washington is simply not doing its part to invest in early childhood education, teachers, or support for struggling schools,” Edwards says. Part of his overhaul includes to option to give states more flexibility to implement their own reforms in underperforming schools.
Additionally, under his reform umbrella, Edwards proposed universal preschool to four-year olds, raise pay by up $15,000 for teachers who work in high-poverty schools and reduce class sizes.
September 21, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (2)
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Yea!, when pigs fly...What is wrong with Public Education is not NCLB, or teachers salaries ( and I'm a teacher!). The fundamental problem is that the system is broken and it needs a redesign from the bottom up. Secondary students need to be able to take advantage of the 24 x 7 access to information which they can access from anywhere, anytime. They need to become more independant learners that don't have to go to a
7 - 2 school day anymore. There should more project based learning at these levels and as well at the Elementary school level. Remove all the bureaucrats from power and replace them real educators.
Posted by: Ike Nelson | Sep 21, 2007 3:11:42 PM
Bureaucrats are necessary to run business and political related functions of schools. However, the educators know the students better than anyone. Lets get suggestions from them, put the best ones in place, fund them, and then give them time to develop. Lets not knee jerk this thing. I like Edwards chances to succeed at reforming education more so than the rest. Its not a priority with them.
Posted by: cliff jones | Sep 21, 2007 11:59:06 PM
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