...Tara Rose Professor Lewis EN 101 November 18, 2008 McCain’s and Obama’s Views on No Child Left Behind Act “Change.” Change has been a word brought up often in this election. Obama promises to bring “change” to America. How are we going to change our education system? How do the candidates plan to change the education system? In 2001, President George Bush, reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, with his new piece of legislation, The No Child Left Behind Act. This was the largest reform of federal education policy in any generation. However, many believe this Act had little or no impact on Americans. Nevertheless, both candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, plan to keep the act intact but with their own revisions, and both parties stress the importance of every child receiving what they call a “world-class education. (Internation Reading Association: Reading Today: McCain vs. Obama)McCain’s key concept in changing the No Child Left Behind Act, is giving parents and their children the choice of any school through charter schools, vouchers, or tax credits for private schools, while Obama’s main focus is recruiting new teachers and paying them higher salaries; I believe Obama’s plan to reform the No Child Left Behind Act is a more productive plan, and that he has a better approach to reforming the No Child Left Behind Act. The No Child Left Behind Act, NCLB, was introduced on January 23, 2001, immediately after George Bush stepped into office. This act...
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...ECE 241 Advocacy Paper While doing research for this paper I found many great things that as an Early Childhood professional I will make known with colleges. I decided to write about “President Obama’s plan to provide high quality early education for all children.” There are 3 major points to Obama’s plan 1. “State-level standards for all learning; 2. Qualified teachers for all preschool classrooms; 3. A plan to implement comprehensive data and assessment systems.” To fulfill the “state-level standards for all learning” the President is asking for investments into state programs via grants from companies, investors, etc. in the communities or states. The President has proposed a cost sharing partnership with all 50 states to help stretch taxpayer dollars and so each state does not have to “reinvent the wheel” so to speak. This proposal also has incentives to the states to sweeten the deal for them to want to invest in their children’s education. For states to receive federal dollars, they will be required to meet benchmarks. These include: “*State-level standard of early learning. *Qualified teachers for all preschool classrooms. *A plan to implement comprehensive data and assessment systems. Preschool programs across the states would meet common and consistent standards for quality across all programs, including; *Well trained teachers who are paid comparably to k-12 staff; *Small class sizes and low adult to child ratios; *A rigorous curriculum; ...
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...American citizens. During the campaign period, national conventions, and presidential debates, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney discussed why both are qualified and best fit to become President of the United States. Many topics such as education, foreign policy issues, health care, and economy and trade are elaborated during the campaigning period, the conventions, and the debates. According to multiple media sources such as CNN and Fox News, the 2012 presidential election is in a dead heat. Governor Romney revealed qualities that would make him a good President. Governor Romney’s economic policy is what a fragile America needs and his ability to recognize the danger of the growing debt. Governor Romney possesses great knowledge of the current budget mess and yet has an optimistic view of America’s future. That is the change I want for a better America. A strong education system is essential for a better America. Currently, the education system is in a weakened and unstable state. President Obama’s failures to strengthen the education system and prevent the rising cost in education, has forced the hand of Americans to vote for a better-fit candidate. Both candidates agree that more teachers and a better education system...
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...Evaluation of President Obama's First Year and a Half as POTUS" Introduction Barrack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America on January 20th, 2009. He is the first African American to take office and with his presidency he promised to make changes to America that would liberate the American people from crisis into a bright new beginning. In his Inauguration speech, he claimed to mend the financial crisis by stimulating jobs and laying a “new foundation for growth” (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). He promised to rebuild the Nation’s foundations such as roads, bridges, electric grids, and digital lines, to revive the prosperity and importance of science, to increase the care and lower the cost of health care, to mend the threat of global warming, to enact peace with Afghanistan, to withdraw from Iraq, and to transform the educational system to meet the conditions of a new era (Naughton, “Inauguration speech”). Throughout his first year as president Obama has enacted many policies and regulations such as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Health Care Bill. However, has Obama stayed true to his original promises stated throughout his campaigns, in his Inauguration speech, as well as his first State of Union speech. Has Obamba’s first year been a success or a failure? This essay will explore the history of Obama’s ascend to presidency, his success and failures, and an overall evaluation of Obama’s first year in office. ...
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...How Current Education Reform Legislation is Effecting Learning In recent years, education – specifically the quality of public education – has been a hot topic of discussion for both Republicans (George W. Bush) and Democrats (Barrack Obama). American society has changed drastically during the past decade or so in terms of the way it approaches public education, partially due to legislation by the national government, partially due to legislation written by the state governments and partially because American culture is different than it once was. America now finds itself at a crucial point in history, where something must be done in these hard economic times to combat low quality, inner city education while at the same time maintaining the high quality of much suburban education. Americans are asking themselves, “What is the government doing to change our schooling system to make it better?” The response is a long and complex one, though there is still no answer, as our schools are constantly changing and growing in many different ways. First, there was President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind Act” and now President Obama’s “Race To The Top.” Both of these government reforms have had a large impact on education and American society as a whole. To have a good understanding of the current legislation regarding education reform, one must first understand the legislation before it: The No Child Left Behind Act. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) was instituted...
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...From going to the “little black boy with the weird name”, to the very first black president of the United States, Barack Obama is making history. “The New New Deal” which is a book written by Michael Grunwald goes into great detail of Obama before presidency and during presidency. I believe that this book is somewhat uninteresting, but very informative and it would be great for someone interested in Obama’s acts as the president. The book was published in 2012 in New York, NY by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Michael Grunwald, the author, presents many facts throughout the book and he also expresses his opinions on certain things. “The New New Deal” shows how Obama’s acts and plans as president were a success. The author in the beginning of the book...
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...The Plan Obama’s ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol was filled with traditional pomp and pageantry. Obama swore in January 21, 2013 for the public. He delivered a speech that previewed the priorities that he intends to pursue for his second-term (Tribune Newspaper, n.d.). His priorities include things like: gun rights, budget plans, and jobs for America. Obama is calling to give a fair shot to the middle class (Dorning, 2013). The Affordable Care Act is also in his plan for the next four years. Obama propose the “The Budget Plan”. Jobs for America, the middle class, and affordable care were discussed in this plan. Amy Goodman stated, “President Obama has unveiled a budget plan seeking to trim the federal deficit by cutting or eliminating over 200 federal programs, many dedicated to social services and education.” The Budget was a $3.7 trillion proposal that would cut funding in half for the IHEAP (Income Home Energy Assistance Program). This program subsidizes heating costs for low-income Americans. President Obama called for a freeze on annual domestic spending over the next few years. The Budget Plan also calls for cutting $300 million from community development block grants. Obama’s plan includes two modest tax hikes for banks and oil companies. However, the Budget does not only include those things. The Budget implements the tight discretionary spending caps that Obama signed into law in the Budget Control Act of 2011. Barack also wanted to limit an expansion of...
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...express my prognosis for future improvement in each category. The slowdown in US economy and high unemployment rate has driven the US presidential elections in 2012 by making these issues to be prime concerns for voters. Stimulating the economy and job creation became the obvious concerns for president Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney to stand out in the elections by creating strong outline policies for competing with each other. Intending to create new jobs through public investment in education and infrastructure, Obama proposed a $447 billion bill for job creation. He tried to attract the middle class by cutting the payroll taxes. But at the same time raised the taxes on the top two percent of earners, by extending the Bush-era cuts for the rest of the population—this plan was passed by senate in July 2012. Meanwhile, Romney and many other Republicans have advocated extending the Bush tax cuts for all Americans as a way to stimulate the economy and facilitate job creation. The Romney economic plan is largely centered on cutting taxes at the corporate and personal levels, while balancing the budget through federal spending and entitlement cuts. Obama extended $700 billion for Trouble asset relief program also known as the bank bailout --which President George W. Bush enacted in October 2008. This was an unexpected move from president Obama in spite of taking the office at peak...
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...WRITTING ASSIGNMENT #1 When America became aware of President Obama’s plan to address the nation’s children, controversy over the event made headlines across the nation. According to USA Today the controversy was started by Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer warning the nation that Obama was going to use his speech to the children to spread his “socialist ideology” and “liberal lies.” The issue was then exaggerated even more by conservative bloggers, radio commentators and Fox News to add to the “fear mongering” started by Greer as stated by USA Today. The controversy started by Jim Greer did not stop there. The Department of Education had suggested to the Obama administration to include a lesson plan along with the speech urging the students to write letters to themselves about, how they would help the president. This did not sit well with many parents and therefore the suggested lesson plan was taken out of the speech format. The change in the format along with the White House posting the transcript of the speech on its’ website helped alleviate the concerns of many, even Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer. According to The News- Gazette.com “After they got a look at the text many critics, including Greer, backed off, and some schools agreed to show the speech after all.” Even though the release of the transcript proved that the speech did not have political undertones to the message there were still parents that did not want their kids to listen to the...
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...being the first non-white president elected in the history of the United States, a lot of people in America and the entire world believed and trusted that new and better times were coming, and the feeling of hope filled their hearts and minds. Before he was inaugurated as president Barack Hussein Obama stated that “job number one is to bring down unemployment”. Politicians around the world have the task not only to inspire the population with an ideology that brings peace to their lives, but ideas that can solve the big and small problems affecting the society. As a leader of a nation a President has the role to be a model and example for his followers, which is not an easy task; especially in such a complex and demanding American society. Obama’s expectations were not high but gigantic at a moment where tremendous changes were needed in the country of The United States of America. “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence and considered by some as part of one of the most well crafted, influential sentences in the history of the English language. People need to be happy, have jobs that brings them money and that involves them in helping their nations economy, people have a lot of needs in order to accomplish the lifestyle they always wanted, people want to grow as workers and as...
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...Barack Obama Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States —becoming the first African American to serve in that office —on January 20, 2009. The son of a white American mother and a black Kenyan father, Obama grew up in Hawaii. Leaving the state to attend college, he earned degrees from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago, where he met and married Michelle LaVaughn Robinson in 1992. Their two daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha (Sasha) were born in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996 and served there for eight years. In 2004, he was elected by a record majority to the U.S. Senate from Illinois and, in February 2007, announced his candidacy for President. After winning a closely-fought contest against New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, Obama handily defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican nominee for President, in the general election. When President Obama took office, he faced very significant challenges. The economy was officially in a recession, and the outgoing administration of George W. Bush had begun to implement a controversial "bail-out" package to try to help struggling financial institutions. In foreign affairs, the United States still had troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and warfare had broken out between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, illustrating the...
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...great leader and is growing into a greater one. He focuses on the issues our country has as a whole such as the economy, education and health care. I believe that Obama has a great plan for all of the issues at hand, but everyone is entitled to their own opinions. When it comes to the economy President Obama inherited a terrible mess when he came into political office; a 1.3 trillion dollar deficit, two wars, rising unemployment and unprecedented crises in our banking system. The Obama Administration has worked overtime to address our immediate problems of rising unemployment, falling home prices and limping credit markets, while taking a longer view in laying a strong foundation for future economic growth that benefits all Americans. To get the economy back on track President Obama signed legislation to jumpstart our economy, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, less than a month after his inauguration. The plan will save or create 3.5 million new jobs, make critical investments in our infrastructure and give 95 percent of working Americans a tax cut. There are many people who are appreciative of what President Obama and his Administration are doing to help our economy get back on the right path and then there are those who disagree. Education has been a problem in the United States for a long time high dropout rates and not farthing education after high school is a big issue now-a-days but now it’s time for change. At this defining moment in our history, President...
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...It’s no secret that financing a college education is getting tougher. College costs have skyrocketed over the past decade or so but, and there is relief insight. Average tuition at four-year colleges will increase seven percent this school year. Recently, President Obama unveiled his “ America’s College Promise” program - a plan to make two years of community college education available free of charge to “everyone who’s willing to work for it”(Sean). This program would help reduce student debt and increase the number of college graduates . Since its creation, community college has aimed to provide open access to higher education. Today, the average cost of community college remains approximately one third the cost of average tuition at a public four year institution. However, tuition and fees only represent a quarter of the total cost of attending a community college. Total annual costs of non-tuition related expenses such as off-campus room and board, books, and transportation for a full-time,...
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...Tamara Robbins Professor Schwartz WR 122 February 3, 2015 The Obama administration proposed to make two year college free for responsible students. Others have tried and failed. The facts are that we will still be paying for it in the end with our taxes and that free tuition will only cause more debt, and it will turn our unique individual college experiences into more bleak college experience. The Obama administrations “proposal aims to waive tuition for community college students who maintain a minimum 2.5 GPA and make steady progress toward completing their program, the plan applies to both half-time and full-time students and includes certificate, associate, and bachelor’s degrees” (HS). This minimum requirement is lower then what is currently required by FASFA. “It is estimated that this would cost six billion dollars per year, this money will simply replace the tuition students were already paying, not increase colleges’ revenue. States would be required to pay for one-quarter of this tuition subsidy. Some may raise that money by decreasing the direct subsidies they give colleges now, which currently cover approximately two-thirds of the cost of educating each student.”(TIME) “However, reducing costs for students on its own is unlikely to significantly increase the number of students who finish degrees. Consider: Of all of the students who enrolled in public community college for the first time in the fall of 2003, only one-quarter earned any kind of certificate...
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...Obama Timeline: The most powerful person in the world -Barack Hussein Obama, was born on August 4, 1961 in Hawaii -His parents divorced when he was 2 yrs old and after that in 1967 he moved to Jakarta, Indonesia to live with his mother -1971: when he returned to Honolulu to live with his grandparents and attended Punahou school, a private preparatory school. He was one of few black students in school and his classmate regarded him as “the black kid from Indonesia” -1975: while in high school, Obama joined the basketball team and became a leader in class. (I think he started leading people very young) However, during his teenage years, he described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage lead him to use alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. (At the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency, Obama identified his high-school drug use as a great moral failure) -1979: Obama attended Occidental College and here he made his 1st public speech, calling for Occidental’s disinvestment from South Africa due to its policy of apartheid (mid-1981). - He graduated Bachelor of Arts with the major in political science in Columbia University in 1983. -He worked as director of the Developing Communities Project (a church-based community organization). He helped set up training program, a college preparatory tutoring program. -Entering Harvard Law School in 1988 and becoming an editor and also a first black president of the Harvard Law review. ...
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