Obama:Education
...future for my daughters. I don’t want that future for your sons. I don’t want that future for America” (Obama ’08).
Barack Obama is an advocate for better education. Among all of the issues that he speaks on throughout his campaign, education is continually at the forefront. Of the articles that I have read, he consistently wants to better the education system for both the children and the teachers. Obama begins from the beginning of the education system, starting with pre-k all the way to training for the teachers. He has taken all laws and ideas that have been implemented the past several years and explains how they have failed to work and what moves he wants to make to ensure that the next generation has to stability and ability to have that opportunity to have an “affordable, world-class, life-long, top-notch education, from early childhood to high school—from college to on-the-job-training”(Citizens for Barack Obama). The problems that are laid out throughout his educational campaign were “No Child Left Behind”, “Students Left Behind”, “High School Drop Out Rate”, “Teacher Retention Problem”, and “Soaring College Costs”(Obama ’08). These issues address the effectiveness of the laws that were implemented to alleviate the issues that they were already causing.
On the issue of “No Child Left Behind”, it addresses the lack of follow through that the government had to provide quality teachers, paying those teachers, lack of funding, and deferred implementation of the Education Department. “Students Left Behind” identifies the amount of students that read below their grade level and fail to graduate on time or go to college. With “High School Drop Out Rate”, it shows that America has the highest drop out rate in the world. It also identifies African Americans and Latinos as the ones that are less likely to graduate. When looking at those issues, I was...
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