McCain and Obama Share Basic Views on Ed. Tech.
But Candidates Would Take Different Approach to Online Education
Their plans for using technology to improve schools differ on specifics, but Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain have each taken the position that educational improvement efforts should be firmly supported using technology.
The presidential nominees also agree that the federal government should play a significant role in improving the use of technology. Sen. McCain’s proposals would put a higher priority on the development of online schools, however, than Sen. Obama’s would.
The two campaigns’ general agreement on the important role of educational technology was touched on most recently at a public discussion on “educational entrepreneurship” that featured Lisa Graham Keegan, a former state superintendent of schools for Arizona who is an education adviser to the McCain campaign, and one of the Obama campaign’s education advisers, Michael Johnston, the principal of the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts in Thornton, Colo., which serves...
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