Obama on Education
President Obama delivered a major, long (over 4,500 words), and substantive speech on education this morning. Transcript here; coverage here
Obama's speech gets the education reform-o-meter treatment
With Mike away on vacation, I get the keys to the vaunted Reform-o-Meter. Certainly President Obama's big speech today deserves to be taken for a spin.
President Obama, education standards and accountability
Just a quick sidenote about the speech this morning. Obama complained pretty emphatically about state standards and the current system--50 different sets of standards, from the lowest-of-the-low to the highest-of-the-high.
President Obama pushes for education reform
(Guest blogger Laura Bornfreund is a Fordham Fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
Obama speaks on charter schools-will states listen?
Emmy L. PartinIn his first major education speech since taking office, President Obama made the case for charter schools as incubators of innovation and excellence in public education.