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Are the President's Education Policies Helping Our Kids?

An end-of-term report card assesses how the Obama administration has performed on five critical education issues.

 When Barack Obama ran for office in 2008, he did so on an education platform that was “ambitious” to say the least. Then-candidate Obamawas clear that he aimed to reform America’s entire education system, from preschool on up through higher education -- and during his first term as president, his administration has indeed made significant changes to educational policy. But have those changes been for the better? Have schools, and their students, benefited from the Obama administration’s educational maneuvers over this first term? As it turns out, the answer is: not necessarily.

Herewith, a look at five critical education issues in America today, and how the president and his team have handled them so far: 

1. Funding for Early Childhood Education

It is well-established that early childhood education is a crucial means of