Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Future of Early Childhood Education...
What will early education look like after President George W. Bush leaves office? The New America Foundation decided to try and find out. Hosting a forum with education advisers to both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, the nearly hour and a half discussion revealed much about how the two candidates might approach education for our youngest children.
The pending reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act will provide the next president an opportunity to substantially reshape federal education policy. To provide a preview of what that change may look like, the New America Foundation invited education advisers to the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to speak about their candidates' education policy agendas. Lisa Graham Keegan is a former Arizona superintendent of education who advises Sen. John McCain. Jon Schnur is former education adviser to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of Education Richard Riley, and an unofficial adviser to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. Richard Lee Covin, director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, moderated the discussion.
Read more at the New America Foundation website...
What will early education look like after President George W. Bush leaves office? The New America Foundation decided to try and find out. Hosting a forum with education advisers to both Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, the nearly hour and a half discussion revealed much about how the two candidates might approach education for our youngest children.
The pending reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act will provide the next president an opportunity to substantially reshape federal education policy. To provide a preview of what that change may look like, the New America Foundation invited education advisers to the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates to speak about their candidates' education policy agendas. Lisa Graham Keegan is a former Arizona superintendent of education who advises Sen. John McCain. Jon Schnur is former education adviser to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of Education Richard Riley, and an unofficial adviser to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. Richard Lee Covin, director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, moderated the discussion.
Read more at the New America Foundation website...
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 5:10 PM 
