Comments on: Why Educators Should Support Barack Obama

By: Musings on Election Day and the Obama Victory | Edwize

Musings on Election Day and the Obama Victory | Edwize — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:47:18 +0000

[...] like New Leaders for New Schools head John Schnur? or, from the Bolder, Broader Coalition, perhaps Linda Darling-Hammond, or Arne Duncun, the current Chicago Schools Superintendent who has signed both the educational [...]

By: Debate: Education and the Next President | Edwize

Debate: Education and the Next President | Edwize — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:49:17 +0000

[...] night was the Edweek-sponsored, Teachers College-hosted debate between Linda Darling-Hammond and Lisa Graham Keegan, prominent education advisers to Obama and McCain, [...]

By: caliarch.net » Blog Archive » Why I’m Voting Obama

caliarch.net » Blog Archive » Why I’m Voting Obama — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 02:59:10 +0000

[...] That’s why. [...]

By: Live Debate: Education and the Next President | Edwize

Live Debate: Education and the Next President | Edwize — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:02:46 +0000

[...] Columbia University will host “Education and the Next President,” a debate between Linda Darling-Hammond, education adviser to Barack Obama, and Lisa Graham Keegan, education adviser to John McCain. [...]

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[...] Why Educators Should Support Barack Obama by Linda Darling [...]

By: The presidential election and the future of No Child Left Behind | Warner Perspectives

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:36:22 +0000

[...] Moreover, we need to know more about who is advising Obama, who has developed close connections to corporate and political leaders from his work with the Chicago schools. Many of the leaders with whom he is close have pushed a corporate reform agenda. Pauline Lipman, in her book High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform and in a chapter co-authored with me in my book, has criticized recent Chicago reforms for exacerbating inequality and creating a dual unequal city. On the other hand, Linda Darling-Hammond, well known Stanford University professor and contributor to the proposal Democracy at Risk: The Need for a New Federal Policy in Education, has had a more progressive influence on Obama’s policies and has recently written a blog on why educators should support Obama: http://edwize.org/why-educators-should-support-barack-obama. [...]

By: Mike Froning

Mike Froning — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:05:38 +0000

Has anyone actually read McCain’s proposals for education? Virtually every idea he has can be tracked back to his (now obviously) failed philosophy of deregulation. He would de-professionalize teaching and teacher preparation. As a 36-year classroom teacher, now a dean of education, I see nothing in McCain’s plan for me nor my teacher colleagues. On the other hand, read through the Obama plan! The guy “gets” teaching. I could argue maybe with individual pieces of his proposals, but in general terms I haven’t seen a better plan from a politician regarding public school education in the 46 years since I was first able to vote. Linda’s article is spot on.

By: Peter Goodman

Peter Goodman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:06:19 +0000

The core of McCain’s education program is to attack and demonize teacher unions and vigorously encourage vouchers … basically to privatize public education … the very survival of public education is at stake. Just imagine Joel Klein as Secty of Education.

By: Love to Teach

Love to Teach — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:41:03 +0000

That is a lot of promises. He sounds like Santa Claus !!!

By: Why Educators Should Support Barack Obama | No Child Left Behind?

Why Educators Should Support Barack Obama | No Child Left Behind? — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:34:21 +0000

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