Education

As President Obama gears up to officially accept his presidential nomination at the 46th Democratic National Convention, he will kick-off the "Road to Charlotte" tour with grassroots events in Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, and North Carolina On the "Road to Charlotte" tour, the President will continue to lay out what's at stake for the middle class in this election -- the choice between continuing to move forward to an economy built to last that's grounded in a strong middle class, and going back to the same "top-down" economic policies of the last decade that crashed our economy and punished the middle class.

An Economy Built to Last: Education - 2012 Democratic National Convention Video

DNC Video: "The Choice - President Obama Stands with Working Families"

North Carolinians share why they support President Obama and what they're doing to help re-elect him in November.

School Superintendent John Kuhn of the Perrin-Whitt Consolidated ISD made an impassioned speech to an audience of 12,000 teachers and supporters yesterday on the south steps of the capitol building in Austin Texas. He ended his speech with a reading of his "Alamo Letter" that he wrote to his state legislators. Here is the entire speech.

Veterans share why they support President Obama and what the president has done to support Veterans and Military Families.

Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes reflects upon the anniversary of the end of the combat mission in Iraq and talks about welcoming our troops home and the administration's commitment to supporting our troops as they transition back to civilian life.

With students starting to head back to school, President Obama discusses the critical role that education plays in America's future.

The White House welcomes more than 100 state, district, and school leaders and educators from 45 states, the District of Columbia, the Bureau of Indian Education, Puerto Rico, and America Samoa, for a briefing on the transformative efforts underway in struggling schools nationwide through the federal School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, and honors 12 leaders as Champions of Change.

McAvoy:
-    Ideological  purity
-    Compromise as weakness
-    A fundamentalist belief in scriptural literalism
-    Denying science
-    Unmoved by facts
-    Undeterred by new information
-    A hostile fear of progress