Teacher Reflects on Candidates’ Education Platforms

Publication: Los Angeles Times
Date: August 1, 2008

Summary: Kate Applebee, Inland Area Writing Project teacher-consultant, writes in the Los Angeles Times that neither presidential candidate's proposed education solution can address underlying issues with the K–12 system.

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Although Barack Obama and John McCain try to offer solutions to help America break from conventional thinking on educational policy, both senators are missing key pieces to the puzzle of why our public schools are failing.

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