Campaign 2016: Obama Education Focus Declines Over Time

How Obama’s State of the Union rhetoric has changed, in one chart https://t.co/AL1cXRz0f7 pic.twitter.com/x4vJOtofi2

— Vox (@voxdotcom) January 14, 2016

This infographic from Vox shows that it's out with a whimper rather than a bang when it comes to focusing national attention on education, even if you combine the "schools" column with the "education" column.

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[Bruce]

There is perhaps no field in which President Obama has been a greater disappointment than education -- except perhaps with respect to the Constitution, since this chief executive has not faithfully executed laws. In 2009 many of us were eagerly anticipating a new era of successful reform for our schools and our country; in 2012 we resorted to reelecting him for lack of a better alternative; in 2016 we can't wait for his disastrous administration of the U.S. Department of Education to be terminated, as families across the country opt out of the test-obsessed vision of state schooling he has unwittingly abetted -- the best informed reluctantly see no alternative better than private schooling, like that the Obama and Duncan children are receiving, for their own children, at least in the near term.