In the January 2015 issue of Reach, faculty members Estela Mara Bensimon, Sandra Kaplan, Julie Marsh, Morgan Polikoff, Melora Sundt and William Tierney discuss education issues that are likely to feature in the 2016 presidential campaign and beyond.
Selected quotes are excepted below:
Tierney, on access to college:
"The first education issue in the upcoming presidential campaign is going to be about access to college. We need to increase the number of low-income students going to college, and that will require increased resources for college counseling and alternative uses of technology and social media from the federal government. President Obama’s initiative to make community colleges free for everyone is sure to remain an agenda item."
Bensimon, on outcomes:
"In my mind, schools should be rewarded for graduating first-generation, low-income or minority students."
Marsh, on accountability:
"We need to think more broadly about standards-based accountability so it doesn’t end up as a new form of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers."
Read more in the January 2015 Issue of Rossier Reach .
