National goals, local model for Obama education plan
Today, President Obama will address the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on the topic of education, building a national plan based on Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone ‘cradle to college’ approach.
Obama’s “cradle to career” education agenda is detailed here. While the speech today is not expected to address No Child Left Behind legislation, it will address early childhood efforts, merit pay for teachers, raising academic rigor, financial aid, and the charge, to parents to take responsibility for their children’s education and their own — heard most recently in Obama’s address to Congress .
What have you done to improve your own education? How do you ‘model’ lifelong learning for your children? And are families able to put learning first when they are battling poverty or chronic illness and have meager resources and unstable living conditions? Stimulus money or not, that’s the trillion-dollar question.
Update: See the Times’ quick take on the Obama education speech here; especially illuminating comments amplify and frame the debate.
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