Advice on Education & Democracy
We look back before the election at some of the education advice given about education and democracy.
We spoke with Mike Rose who is an education scholar and Professor of Social Research Methodology in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Kris Guitierrez, a professor of Social Research Methodology at UCLA and Wendy Kopp, founder and president of Teach for America, the national teaching corps and asked what education advice they had for Barack Obama.
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Advice on NCLB
Since it’s inception No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been a hot button issue for educators and policy makers. Now that President Obama is in office should we get rid of NCLB or keep the system in place?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice that Randall Collins the president of the American Association of School Administrators, Jack Dale, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Sandy Kress, former education advisor to George W. Bush, and Eric Scroggins the Executive Director of Teach for America in the San Francisco Bay Area offered to the next President regarding NCLB.
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“Call upon people from all backgrounds”
Wendy Kopp is founder and president of Teach for America, the national teaching corps.
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“Stand firmly behind the principals of No Child Left Behind”
Eric Scroggins began as executive director of Teach For America-Bay Area in August 2006, where he has overseen the strategy, development and execution of one of the most ambitious regional growth efforts.
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