After a clear victory last week, many are referring to the re-election of President Obama as a mandate. With 332 electoral votes to Mitt Romney’s 206, it is not clear what else to call it. While many are jubilant about the election results, let us not forget a key constituency that made the Obama re-election [...]
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Dr. Sharon Washington on the upcoming Million Puppet March and the value of PBS to education. -M.P. When education becomes an ideological pawn in politics, it looks like Big Bird perched front and center of a “Million Muppet March”. Born somewhere in the Twitterverse, in response to a [...]
The third and final presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle has ended. It was completely about foreign policy, and dealt with Libya, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, among many other places. From the very beginning, President Obama gained the upper hand. Coming off of a very strong performance in the second debate, his goal was to [...]
At the presidential debate, jobs was a key issue in both the platforms of both candidates. With the economy still in slow recovery, that is indeed understandable. However, what I do want to take a moment out to speak on is the idea that the government cannot create jobs. Mitt Romney in one of his [...]
I’ve worked in the field of education for the better part of the last decade and over the past eight years I’ve heard the staff room talk shift heavily from more supply oriented complaints to the sort of complaints that are steeped in fear, confusion, and desperation. Teachers are frightfully worried about the course of [...]