Barack Obama's comprehensive plan to bring forward education in the US focuses on the following subjects:
- Reform No Child Left Behind.
- Ensure access to high-quality early childhood education programs and child care opportunities so children enter kindergarten ready to learn.
- Work to place effective teachers in every classroom in America, especially those in high-poverty, high-minority areas.
- Reward effective teachers for taking on challenging assignments and helping children succeed.
- Support highly-effective principals and school leaders.
- Make science and math education a national priority.
- Reduce the high school dropout rate by focusing on proven methods to improve student achievement and enhance graduation and higher education opportunities.
- Close the achievement gap and invest in what works.
- Empower parents to raise healthy and successful children by taking a greater role in their child’s education at home and at school.
I totally agree with the ideas of Obama, but I think that there are first of all big changes to be done concerning the whole country:
ReplyDelete- abolishing the legal permission to have guns --> for me it is impossible for teachers as well as students to feel at ease in schools where at every time, some crazy people can come in and out with guns and shoot around....
a first step to a better american school seems to me, to try and create a better an safer atmosphere in which people want to learn because they know that they have a future, which is not the case at the moment!
Higher Education
ReplyDelete* Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit:
"Obama will make college affordable for all Americans by creating a new American Opportunity Tax Credit. This universal and fully refundable credit will ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free for most Americans(...)" (Retrieved 22, March from http://www.barackobama.com/issues/education/#teachers
It seems to be that there is a contradiction. At first he says that college will be affordable for ALL AMERICANS. But in a second time you can find the words "free for most Americans". From my point of view "for all Americans" and "free for most Americans" isn´t the same thing unless I´m very much mistaken...?