Hillary Clinton’s Brilliant Education Plan Will Work And End Education Wars
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Hillary Clinton’s Brilliant Education Plan Will Work And End Education Wars
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/07/11/hillary-clintons-brilliant-education-plan-work-education-wars.html
By Rmuse on Mon, Jul 11th, 2016 at 9:54 pm
Clinton promises to be a champion for education by not taking advice from people interested in breaking unions and privatizing schools.
It doesn’t matter one iota how smart or informed any person thinks they might be, no-one is an expert, or even well-versed, in every subject, regardless what Donald J. Trump says. Intelligent human beings generally comprehend that if there is a topic they are deficient in, the course of wisdom is seeking out an expert in the field and tapping them for as much information as they are willing to share. It is unfortunate that politicians are not always prone to seeking advice and counsel from experts, the right kind of experts, but this past week one politician signaled that to better serve America’s children, and end “the educations wars” that began with George W. Bush and slightly de-escalated by President Obama, she would go to the real education experts..
While many Americans gave their rapt attention to FBI director James Comey’s press conference last Tuesday, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was laying out a plan for America’s schools in front of the National Education Association; and it was a plan that informs Clinton’s intelligence on education and the wisdom to seek out counsel from education experts: public school teachers. Although it seems like a no-brainer, this is the first time in a couple of decades that a politician promising to be a champion for education is not planning to take advice from people more interested in breaking unions, privatizing public schools, and pandering to moneyed interests.
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Former Secretary Clinton told the mass of public school teachers that she would, besides end the education wars “expand access to child care and Pre-K, pay teachers more, forgive their college debt, construct new school buildings, and bring computer science courses into K-12 education.”
Where Clinton really shined was telling the audience that her administration would “stop focusing only on quote, ‘failing schools.’ Let’s focus on all our great schools too.” As far as that favorite anti-public school advocates’ term accountability, Clinton said, “Advise me and hold me accountable. Keep advocating for your students and your profession.
” Now, there has been such a push to portray all of America’s public schools as abject failures that a fair number of Americans are ignorant about the real success of the public schools and how American students easily best their foreign counterparts in achievement if they are in social-economic areas of wealth. In fact, last year there were two separate studies revealing that “America’s wealthiest traditional public schools that are unionized with tenured teachers are among the world’s highest achieving schools.”
The real issue with why many public school students fail has nothing to do with teachers; it is due to income inequality, woefully inadequate public school funding, parent involvement in the classroom and no parent involvement in the home. Those aspects are not founded on anecdotal information, but a mountain of peer-reviewed studies spanning three decades. Now, it didn’t require several University research projects to determine what’s wrong with America’s students...................
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