Why Mitt Romney’s Education Policy May be the Same as Jeb Bush’s
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has nine policy statements on his official website. But not one for education. Romney and the people advising him are smart people and its not that they’ve forgotten. The omission, however, leaves his position open to interpretation and writing in Politics K12 Alyson Klein has done so. She does so in a fair manner, too, as she uses Romney’s 2010 book. Writes Klein:
Romney hits teacher quality hard. He suggests setting a high bar for education schools and opening up alternative pathways. More controversial is his pitch for an increase in salaries for beginning teachers—that’s a bit unusual for a Republican. He also wants to see a movement away from a “lockstep seniority-based grid.”
Romney has some ideas on social studies education, too, where he wades into some culture war
I keep attempting to bear witness to and advocate for our society’s continuing transformation from “hierarchies of control to circles of equals”, but I got feedback from my partner Sally on our morning walk today that that is too academic of a framing… Damn! So how can I call this out in a more clear, un-geeky, and compelling way? What captures the essence of (along with the argument for) this transformation? I thought about it, feeling some frustration that I was not yet effective in really communicating what I’m trying to say.
