Education

Romney faces tough questions in event driving education agenda

25 May 2012

Mitt Romney took his newly announced education agenda to a west Philadelphia charter school on Thursday, where he was met by tough questions from both inside and outside the school.

The Next Education President

25 May 2012

Mitt Romney is right about one thing: Too many American children do receive what he this week called a "Third World education." A disproportionate number of them are children of color. It is indeed "the civil rights issue of our era." It is also the economic issue and the security issue.

On Education, Romney Seeks Distance from Obama -- and Bush

25 May 2012

In a speech at the Latino Coalition's Annual Economic Summit in Washington DC on Wednesday, Mitt Romney called the U.S. education system a failure. Every child deserves a quality education, he said, particularly minority students who are consistently under-served. Fixing it, according to Romney, is the "civil rights issue of our era."