Obama unveiled an ambitious $18 billion plan to expand public education frompre-school through 12th grade while at Central High School in Manchester, New Hampshire this morning.
Calling education "the currency of the Information Age," Obama stressed the need for expanding public programs to help American competitiveness with other nations. He said that a child in Boston now needs the training to compete with the kids getting an equal or better education in Bangalore or Beijing.
"In this kind of economy, countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow,” Obama said. “Already, China is graduating eight times as many engineers as we are. By 12th grade, our children score lower on math and science tests than most other kids in the world."(MSNBC Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:38 AM by Domenico MontanaroFiled Under: 2008, Obama)
I was recently looking into the education polocies of the decomcratic candidates and I found this article on Obama. What really sttruck me was the fact that he seens educatuion as a problem because of the competition with other countries. That seems wrong to me, why not just see it as a national problem instead of a competition with other conturies?
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