Education: Obama vs. McCain: Post #4

As everyone can see below, I am following the Campaign K-12 blog. This blog talks about the educational system and the entries have to do with the presidential candidates' views. In the first blog of this week (October 14), the bottom part of the entry talks about an scholastic election poll that was taken by kids. From the results of the kids voting, Obama won over McCain, 57%-39%. The point of this was to show that this Scholastic Poll done by kids is used to predict the winner of the election, and is almost usually right except for a few exceptions in the past.

(click the picture spot if it doesnt show up on the blog... it will take you directly to the video)


In the October 15th blog, it talks about the final debate between Obama and McCain, on the education discussion specifically. It says that they haven't made it clear what they are going to do in regard to the No Child Left Behind Act. They talked about what they would do on education in their own campaigns. Obama talked about his support for early childhood education and about a $4000 tuition tax (college), and McCain brought up the need for teacher-recruitment programs such as Teach for America. Obama's support for charter schools does not make him popular with teachers or help him much but his other points will keep him in the running. This blog highlights other things related to education, which is mentioned in the debate, and more into what McCain and Obama plan to do for the education system.

http://edelection.blogspot.com/
This is another blog that my blog follows that also deals with education.

The last two blog entries that are more recent, deal with the presidential debate and what they said in regards to the education policies. They also talked about reforms needed for schools to improve.


This is a picture of McCain giving a speech on education and his views: