What with all of the excitement swirling around the Olympics and the ongoing drama in Georgia, I’m sure that the prospect of another heavily wonkish discussion of domestic policy issues might have you checking to see if you couldn’t schedule a quick root canal. But that won’t stop me urging you to check out a recent piece at BlogHer written by Nancy Pfotenhauer on the subject of education. I’ve interviewed Nancy before and she’s a seriously hard hitting wonk from McCain’s team on domestic issues, particularly education.
She sums up the main thrust of McCain’s education policy in three bullet points. First, accountability and individual achievement should be the cornerstone of any metrics when measuring success in our schools and student performance. Second, parents need more options rather than less, and an increasing measure of control over their own children’s education. And last, government should be providing real incentives and training opportunities to get skilled, qualified teachers into some of our most-challenged schools.
I’ll leave it to you to follow the jump and read the full analysis, but there is some good, common sense material here, well worth your consideration. If you have any additional suggestions for government tinkering in the educational process, feel free to toss them out here. Cheers!