Text: Obama’s speech at U.S. Naval Academy graduation
Here, from the White House, is the text of President Obama’s speech on Friday to the graduation class at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Obama is the 16th U.S. president to speak at the Annapolis...
View ArticleWhat Obama said back then about standardized tests
“The tests our children take should support learning, not just accounting.” That’s what then-Sen. Barack Obama said back in May 2008 when he was running for president and stopped by to talk to students...
View ArticleText of Obama speech: We will connect 99 percent of schools to Internet
President Obama visited Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina on Thursday to promote a new five-year initiative aimed at ensuring that 99 percent of public schools in the country have access to...
View ArticleTranscript: Obama’s remarks on college affordability plan
Here are remarks that President Obama made on Thursday when announcing his new college affordability plan at the State University of New York in Buffalo. This transcript is from the White House....
View ArticleObama’s education gap: Rhetoric vs policies
There is a big gap between what President Obama says about educational equity and the consequences of his policies. Here’s a post on this by Arthur H. Camins, director of the Center for Innovation in...
View ArticleThe 21 books Obama bought on D.C. shopping trip
President Obama went book shopping on Saturday with daughters Malia and Sasha, taking recommendations from the staff of Politics and Prose in Northwest Washington and walking out with 21 books (see...
View ArticlePoverty and the education opportunity gap: Will Obama step up in SOTU?
President Obama is expected to talk about the issue of wealth inequality in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday. The question is whether he will advocate policies that actually address it or...
View ArticleObama on education in SOTU — text
Here’s the part of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union address that deals with education, from prepared remarks provided by the White House: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a...
View ArticleObama on education: Rhetoric vs. reality
There’s nothing new about President Obama giving speeches in which he talks about school reform in ways that have little to do with reality (see, for example, here and here), but there was something...
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Politicians say they care about education. Now public school advocates are...
A Gallup poll taken early this year about what issues are most important to Americans found that 90 percent of Democrats view education as important while 67 percent of Republicans do. Yet education...
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