Obama on Education - Ezra Klein - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Sep 08
  

  lot of lame argument, but better toward the end

  obama speech education innovation children testing

  • chance to fulfill their God-given potential

  • children here in Dayton are growing up competing with children not only in Detroit, but in Delhi as well.

      

      

    What matters, then, isn’t what you do or where you live, but what you know
  • Without a good pre-school education, our children are less likely to keep up with their peers. Without a high school diploma, you’re likely to make about three times less than a college graduate. And without a college degree or industry certification, it’s harder and harder to find a job that can help you support your family and keep up with rising costs.
  • an education agenda that moves beyond party and ideology and focuses instead on what will make the most difference in a child’s life. My plan calls for giving every child a world-class education from the day they’re born until the day they graduate from college. It’s a plan that starts with investing in early-childhood education because we know that children in these programs are more likely to score higher in reading and math, more likely to graduate high school and attend college, more likely to hold a job and earn more in that job. And it’s a plan that will finally put a college degree within reach for anyone who wants one by providing a $4,000 tax credit to any middle class student who’s willing to serve their community or their country.
  • We need assessments that can improve achievement by including the kinds of research, scientific investigation, and problem-solving that our children will need to compete in a 21st century knowledge economy.
  • Service Scholarship program that will recruit top talent into the profession, and place these new teachers in overcrowded districts and struggling rural towns, or hard-to-staff subjects like special education in schools across the nation. To prepare these new teachers, I’ll create more Teacher Residency Programs that will build on a law I recently passed and train 30,000 high-quality teachers a year, especially in math and science. To support our teachers, we’ll expand mentoring programs that pair experienced, successful teachers with new recruits.
  • when our teachers succeed in making a real difference in our children’s lives, we should reward them for it by finding new ways to increase teacher pay
  • we can increase the number of students taking college-level courses; expand innovation and school choice; invest in the schools of tomorrow; and put a quality teacher in every classroom – all for the cost of just a few days in Iraq

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