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Dec 7, 2018 · Proposals set forth by the 41st president have influenced decades of K-12 education policy. “I want to be the education president. I want to lead a renaissance of quality in our schools.” George H. W. Bush made that declaration in January 1988, at a high school in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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Dec 10, 2018 · In forming the national education strategy for the modern education reform era that began with A Nation At Risk, President George H.W. Bush forever changed the trajectory of K–12 education.
Dec 8, 2008 · George W. Bush entered the White House determined to change federal education policy. “Bipartisan education reform will be the cornerstone of my administration,” he wrote in the foreword to...
Sep 22, 2004 · High-quality education is fundamental to achieving the American Dream. In 2001, President Bush called for significant reforms to K-12 education through the No Child Left Behind Act to set high standards and produce real results for every child in America.
Wide achievement gaps exist in the United States — low income and minority students in particular lag behind their peers. On a global scale, students in the U.S. consistently rank below children in other countries in the core subjects of reading, math, and science.
Even more ambitiously, Bush portrayed his education reforms as a civil rights issue to create a wedge to attract support from Democrats. Bush adroitly framed the issue by making equality of achievement between minorities and other groups a primary policy goal.
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Dec 18, 2019 · And the shift between the Obama and Trump administrations showed dramatically different views on how to improve America’s education system, from sometimes prescriptive school improvement policies...
