The U.S. News and World Report – Robert Pondiscio
“Education policy is rarely a top issue in presidential campaigns. In the main, that’s fine; most of the action is at the state and local level. Still, this week’s education policy summit hosted in New Hampshire by the education news website The Seventy Four and the American Federation for Children gave six of the 17 GOP presidential contenders the chance to burnish their K-12 credentials. (A second summit featuring Democratic candidates is slated for October in Iowa.) To help the candidates hone their stump speeches, my Fordham Institute colleagues and I spent some time recently brainstorming campaign themes we’d like to see candidates from either party embrace. Here’s what we came up with:.”(more)