Via Matt comes CAP’s Melissa Lazarin talking through Obama’s education plans. I’m still a bit skeptical that major education reform will emerge this year. It’s one of the administration’s touted priorities, but the articulated vision is a lot less detailed than it it is on cap and trade or health reform. Similarly, congressional Democrats don’t […]
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A Radical Vision for the Council on Girls and Women
We need to shift our priorities on women’s issues, and the new White House Council for Women and Girls can be the catalyst.
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THE PRESIDENT CAN’T MULTITASK, BUT THE BUREAUCRACY CAN.
Fixing the bank system is obviously the One Big Thing in the short-term. If that goes down, so too does our economy. But the articles attacking the Obama administration’s broad ambitions haven’t quite clarified why a fix for the banking system is more likely if Obama declines to address climate change, health care, and education. […]
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OBAMANOMICS: CONSERVATIVE OR REVOLUTIONARY?
There are two ways to see Obamanomics. The first, much preferred by the White House, is as a set of initiatives so modest as to hardly merit a raised eyebrow. Assuming the economy recovers next year, Obama’s budget projects that government spending by the end of the decade will drop to around 22.5 percent of […]
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OBAMA ON EDUCATION TODAY.
In a speech to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce this morning, President Obama laid out his education agenda. Here’s the money quote: For decades, Washington has been trapped in the same stale debates that have paralyzed progress and perpetuated our educational decline. … It’s more money versus more reform, vouchers versus the status quo. […]
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AMBITION.
According to Politico‘s Mike Allen, “the latest theme of pundit commentary on the Obama administration is overload.” They’re doing too much at once. The political system can’t absorb health care and cap and trade and education and TARP and the homeowner bailout and the stimulus all at once. And maybe that’s right. But it reminds […]
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE?
Bloomberg’s Al Hunt reports that the Obama administration remains undecided about how quickly to address immigration reform, noting that the word “immigration” was totally absent from the president’s address to Congress last week. But a story out of Utah highlights some of the social issues that are keeping immigration tensions simmering in communities across the […]
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NEWS FROM THE EDUCATION BUDGET.
The administration has released its 2010 budget overview. Perusing the Department of Education section, there are some newsy tidbits on NCLB, charters, and higher ed policy: Everyone wants to know what Obama is planning in terms of the re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — you know it as No Child Left Behind. […]
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The FundamentaList (No. 69)
This week in religion and politics: Medicaid coverage for abortion continues to stir controversy, and are “homegrown” sex education programs in Texas unconstitutional?
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OBAMA’S RADICAL WORDS ON EDUCATION.
A lot of froth will be spilled over Obama‘s call for education “reform” in his speech tonight. The president did mention performance pay and greater support for charter schools. But he also promised to protect teachers’ jobs and pay them more. The key thing to note here is that Obama is stepping out exactly no […]
