Education was once the foundation of American society. To thrive, because they receive a quality education as the ticket to the middle class and a comfortable life. However, over time the Americans began to focus on education. The public school system has begun to suffer and the achievement gap between American kids and foreign counterparts widened.
Both Barack Obama and John McCain focus on education reform in his platform, but whose plan benefits you and your children more?
McCain believes the key to education reform is the ability of parents to choose schools their children attend, as do their colleagues in Congress, who are able to send their children to private schools in improving their area. The Republican candidate is the equality of education equivalent to equal access to better education. According to its website, “John McCain will fight for the ability of all students have access to all schools of demonstrated excellence, including their homes.”
The Arizona senator wants to encourage competition among schools to be the most innovative and flexible, and compete for the best teachers and administrators.
Also, McCain believes that financial assistance should be based on the desire of parents to transfer their children to the best school available.
But Obama believes that the retention of teachers and affordable higher education as the key to education reform. According to its website, thirty percent of teachers leave the field of education in the first five years. Also, the cost of a college education has increased by forty percent in the last five years.
Obama and his running mate Joe Biden plan for the reform plan for education includes zero to five, reforming No Child Left Behind and support initiatives for college credit.
The zero to five plan would not only put emphasis on preschool education, but also the care and upbringing of children they see as crucial in preparing children for kindergarten. The Illinois senator will quadruple, from Head Start, increase funding and improve quality. We also want to make quality care affordable for children of working class families.
Obama believes the problem with the much-maligned No Child Left Behind program has been the lack of funding for the law. It funded the law, but not force teachers to spend a whole year to prepare a standardized test, but to find other means to assess student achievement and the availability of higher education. It intends to contribute to the formation of charter schools, improved performance by doubling the funding of the Federal Charter School Program, while closing poorly performing charter schools available.
The Democratic nominee wants to make math and science a national priority, with the hiring of graduates in mathematics and science degrees and support the efforts of the team of teachers with professionals in the fields of mathematics and science. In an effort to retain teachers, facilitating a mentoring program that teams of young teachers with experienced teachers.
Another key to the reform plan for the education of Obama is his “make universities a Reality ‘initiative, which will increase Advanced Placement courses in high school and implement a new American Opportunity Tax Credit, which will make the first $ 4,000 of college tuition is completely free for most Americans. According to its website, “The beneficiaries of the credit will have to perform 100 hours of community service.”
Therefore, if McCain or Obama in the White House in January 2009, both candidates are determined to make education the basis of progress in America once more.
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