Highlights from Monday’s debate between President Obama and Governor Romney at Lynn University. (The Washington Post)
Monday night’s debate between President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney was supposed to be exclusively about foreign policy, but education came up anyway (though not, it should be noted, in any illuminating way.) Here are some of the best tweets about the debate and education:
Education debate in Finnish local election campaign right now: No to privatization, yes to smaller classes – everybody agrees.
— Pasi Sahlberg (@pasi_sahlberg) October 23, 2012
Ohhhh “the federal government didn’t hire our teachers. I love teachers.” Schieffer: “I think we all love teachers.” #edchat #debates
— Joy Resmovits (@Joy_Resmovits) October 23, 2012
Funny, as a teacher, I’m not really feeling all that love they’re talking about #debate
— Maria Sallee (@MaestraMariaS) October 23, 2012
So the foreign policy of the future is…charter schools?
— Chris Lehmann (@lehmannchris) October 23, 2012
RT @borowitzreport: Romney came THIS close to saying he had binders full of teachers he loved. #debate
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 23, 2012
Mitt makes gratuitous slap at teachers unions
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) October 23, 2012
Class size will help determine whether we have a skilled workforce, Obama said.#education #edchat #debates
— Joy Resmovits (@Joy_Resmovits) October 23, 2012
Please remind @arneduncan that class size matters, @barackobama
— Anthony Cody (@AnthonyCody) October 23, 2012
Mitt, your schools are among the most heavily unionized in America. THAT is part of what allowed MA to be #1 in the nation
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 23, 2012
I wish they wouldn’t talk about education. Romney had nothing to do with MASS reforms. Obama’s Race to Top is test-obsessed and wrong.
— Diane Ravitch (@DianeRavitch) October 23, 2012