The Core Knowledge Blog

USA Today’s Greg Toppo takes note of the presidential candidates’ debate on education, or lack thereof, and sounds the same tone of non-surprise as the rest of us.  “The USA’s teetering economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have all but squeezed out education,” he notes, “a topic important to previous elections.”

Still, the paper produces a nice chart detailing the various stands and pronouncments by the McCain and Obama camps.  “The two split most notably on how much federal funding they believe schools can expect in 2009 and beyond,” Toppo writes.  “They also have different visions of what drives schools to improve. Obama focuses on improving teacher quality. McCain cites competition from taxpayer-supported private schools along with independently and publicly funded charter schools.”