Which presidential candidate has the best policy on education, and NCLB ?

[colorado kid]

Why ? (your opinion)

[tehabwa]

The only good policy on NCLB is to get rid of it; unfortunately, none are interested in doing so.

It's wrong to repurpose our schools into the sole purpose of training students to pass machine-gradable tests.

What they need is to LEARN. (See the Education entries in my 360 blog.)

As far as I know, no one is calling for the changes we really need: restructuring of schools so they engage in genuine education. NOT the ingesting of gazzillions of details and drill in meaningless micro-skills, but internalizing the power of basic concepts, and using knowledge to understand the world.

[Julie S]

Eliminating NCLB is the best approach, and it is true that none of the candidates are interested in doing this. They want to restructure or change a few things, but I haven't really heard any one discuss the increase in funding to support some the impossible mandates of this policy - not in specifics. Traditionally democratic candidates are more pro-education, but the two major demo. candidates are too busy campaigning against each other to focus on important domestic issues such as education.