Thinking just about education, which candidate would make the best President?
Thinking solely in terms of who would be best for education in the United States, which candidate would you select for President?
Please let us know why you selected the choice you did in the Comments section below.
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I do not like Common Core as a parent or teacher and believe it is too confusing in math particularly. I also believe in vouchers to send your child to the best possible schools. I teach at a private Christian school where the students are not taught secularism and other values that are eroding away the moral fiber of this country. There is such a difference in the climate and learning environment at our school. I have been there eleven years and we are not burdened down with the state testing so we can teach a much broader group of skills which include skills that were taught years ago like cursive handwriting and memorizing Bible verses. Our kids are much more well rounded and have a better understanding of the world. Teachers and students have time to really explore ideas and go deeper without worrying about time constraints or if it is on the list of skills for the day.
Cursive and memorization don’t seem to be applicable to anything- that’s exactly why we need standards. Otherwise teachers would teach irrelevant skills.
Gary Johnson wants to bring oversight of education back to the state level, instead of leaving it in the hands of political appointees who’ve never been in a classroom.
Common Core is one set of standards to ensure that our children are progressing. We need a viable set of assessment tools in order to to achieve this goal. However, CC is flawed, discrimates against non white, low income children. Not OK! Hillary sees the flaws and wants to fix them. But not by trashing the whole thing! I hope she succeeds!
Why does your tweet say teachers want Trump but your poll results show Clinton is in the lead? That’s pretty misleading and I’m guessing you’re a Republican leaning organization? Kinda lame simplek12.
Hello Vee. Thanks for your comment. As an organization, we don’t “lean” in any direction; rather, we provide resources and try to inspire teachers and encourage collaboration and conversation. This is an ongoing poll (until the election), so the results change from time to time. I’m not sure what tweet you’re referring to, but I do recall that Trump did lead in our poll early on, although that has changed in the last couple of weeks.
From my standpoint, I don’t believe that either Clinton or Trump really know what needs to happen in education. Clinton is wanting the same old thought process with tweaks to hopefully make it better. Trump’s stance is really hard to pin down what he is really going to do. I do think that Johnson’s position on getting rid of a governmental oversight organization and let the state control their fake – is good. Less regulations, less giving to the feds of tax dollars will help the states keep their funding and give them the freedom to succeed or fail on their own.
Teachers should keep away from politics. The NEA is fundamentally a liberal progressive heavily democrat-leaning organization of teachers. While every teacher has the right to choose who to elect and lead our country, he/she should not be publicly declaring which candidate to choose.