The Choice Channel

“Senator Barack Obama unveiled his education plan last week, and used the opportunity to promote his presidential campaign theme of bringing people together. In classic Third Way fashion, he argued for ‘a willingness to break free from the same debates that Washington has been engaged in for decades: Democrat versus Republican; voucher versus the status quo; more money versus accountability.’ Though Obama’s ideas aren’t as fresh as he suggests (more on that later), he’s surely right about one thing: the parties are mired in the tired debates they’ve been having since the 1990s. The candidates’ K-12 education proposals are, by and large, the same old same old.” (11/29/07)