Audio Advice
Teachers Offer Advice for Obama
We look back before the election at some of the advice that teachers offered. We hear from Esther Wojcicki, a journalism and English teacher at Palo Alto High School in Palo Alto, California, Marlon Esguerra, Special Education teacher at New Design High School in New York City, Dave Stovall, an Associate Professor University of Illinois at Chicago and Glen Westbroek, a middle school science teacher and science department chair at Orem Junior High in Orem, Utah.
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“Don’t leave out kids who have disabilities”
Declan Ryan is a senior at Vanguard High School in New York City.
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“Don’t make Community College free”
Erin Nederbo is a fiction writer and freshman at Columbia College Chicago.
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“Stop standardized testing. It is affecting the dropout rates.”
Kattye Gonzalez is a sophomore at Validus Preparatory Academy.
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“Eliminate the gaps between different schools and different races”
Naquan Dodd is a seventeen-year-old student from the Bronx.
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“The schools that do have problems should be turned into buildings with smaller schools.”
Ashwini Hicks is a senior at Vanguard High School in New York City.
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“Give an opportunity to every student in the U.S.”
Djeneba Danioko is a student at Vanguard High School in New York City.
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“You want us to come to school? Have something for us when we get here”
Eric Caldwell is an 11th grader from New York City.
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“Lower college costs”
Milina Bryan is a Graduating Senior at Validus Preparatory Academy in Bronx, New York.
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“Distribute money evenly”
Ahmed Hunt is from the Bronx and is a student at Validus Preparatory Academy.
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