8 thoughts on “Kerry and Bush on Education Policy”

  1. Education Week on Bush and Kerry

    Here, via Laura, is Education Week’s take on the education policies of Bush and Kerry. Not exactly Tweedledum and Tweedledee. But not far off it….

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  2. Gotta disagree, there. Vouchers, for example–one is for them, one is against them. And spreading the blight of adjuncting to middle and high schools–which Bush supports–doesn’t sound like such a hot idea. And the number of schools/districts currently trying to opt out of NCLB because of its hare-brained-ness is more than a little disconcerting; the people on the ground hate this thing. And that’s just for starters.

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  3. Well, Bush is for vouchers philosophically, but vouchers just aren’t going anywhere. There is no base of support for them and Bush knows it. He isn’t going to waste any political capital trying to get them to happen. He hasn’t even mentioned them in ages.
    Kerry isn’t going to get rid of NCLB. He just wants to fund it better.
    Kerry has also proposed merit pay for teachers and has been very supportive of charter schools.
    In terms of education policy, they really aren’t too far off.

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  6. Carla: Have to disagree with you. Kerry supported vouchers in the past:
    “Shame on us also for not realizing that there are parents in this country who care little about politics or party, who today, support vouchers … [Parents] want alternatives-and seeing none in our rigid system, they are willing and some even desperate to look elsewhere. Intuitively, it makes sense that parents ought to have the freedom as consumers to choose the public schools that fit their children’s needs. It makes sense that schools ought to compete for the chance to educate our children.” (Sen. John Kerry, Remarks At Northeastern University, 6/16/98)

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  8. Education: Getting Started: Reculturing Schools To Become Professional Learning Communities

    Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities answers the question most often asked by schools that are seeking to transform themselves into professional learning communities: “Where do we begin?” The authors focus on…

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