Issues in Education: How Much Do Voters Know?

Find the prompt for the writing below here.

Forty percent of people asked were not aware of who the secretary of education is and only one person was fully correct on the three priority initiatives being addressed in the education system. This shows that many people are not staying very involved in issues that can soon affect them. With our democratic system here people like this could have an important say in decisions made with voting and educational issues.

I think it would be helpful to show more issues like these on the news and on television. Rather than informing people on the latest celebrity gossip they could be getting informed on important issues facing the U.S. today. Another thing that could help would be if more teachers discussed these things in class. If we were learning about these things at school not only could teachers stay informed but we would probably end up passing the awareness around to others.

Others are wondering the same thing and addition information can be found here.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/02/opinions/betsy-devos-has-a-lot-of-work-to-do-on-charter-schools-opinion-perry/