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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaapa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: s primary season commences, education has been largely absent during this year's presidential contest. Slatewriter Laura Moser noted, You might have noticed something: Noneof the candidates are talking about education. Like, at all.' Nina Rees, the head of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, lamented in USNews & World Report, Candidates on both sides of the aisle have said distressingly little about K-12 education.2 Education Week's Andrew Ujisfusa has observed, So far, in both the Republican and Democratic debates, only one direct question has been asked about K-12 policy.3 On the one hand, after the overheated educational efforts that marked the Bush and Obama presidencies, many may regard this benign neglect asa relief. On the other hand, it doesseem to be abreak with recent history. Going back aquarter century to 1992, our last three presidentsall madetheir thinking on education an integral part of their persona. They did thiswell beforethefirst primary ballotswere cast. Each used education in symbolically potent ways. For GeorgeW. Bush, it was away to demonstrate a real commitment to equal opportunity. For Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, it wasaway to talk about new publicspending in termsof investment and personal responsibility and to distinguish it from old-style tax-and-spend liberalism. Clearly that is not going to bethecase thistime around-and that may say as much about the public and what it wants as it does about the candidates and their agendas. Despitesporadic Democratic paeans to free college and pre-K and occasional Republican denunciationsof the Common Core and philosophy degrees, it seems education has occupied only avery modest placeso far in this election year. That is certainly the sentiment of many observers. But is that impression accurate? 1 AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE

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