Education: Attention Must Be Paid

While the candidates debate who will really bring change (answer: either of them, duh), one issue that needs more time in the public eye is education. From EdWeek's blog Bridging Differences, some suggestions for the next president. Key quote: 

The habits of work and mind that schools instill can carry over, but teachers and schools should not be expected to wash away the effects of health care, nutrition, housing, poverty, abuse, street crime, and the extraordinarily high percentage of our young living in jail. In all these categories we out-perform every single other industrialized nation, and by such a long shot.