Obama speaks about education

Summary: This is video of a speech that Barack Obama gave in Thornton Colorado about education and his plans to fix it.

Topic: Pell Grants

Category: Institutional (Government), multimedia

What is it? video

Title: Barack Obama in Thornton, Co.

Publication info: barackobama.com, May 28th 2008

Author: none given

Location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=906KuDDHXA4

Supports:

Mesa high school graduating class

Summary:

Barack Obama used the graduating class of 2008 as an example of what he wanted the future of education to be.  Mesa had a high drop out rate in the past few years.  So teachers and the principle started banding together to help students succeed. This included having meetings with students to help them with studying, and faculty meetings to discuss curiculum.  In 2008 all the seniors at Mesa high school graduated, and were accepted to college.  Since most students could not afford college the students started a fundraiser with a goal of 1 million dollars, and raised 565 thousand dollars in scholarships.  Obama used that example to demonstrate that there was a gap in the funding being provided to students, and then he introduced his tax credit plan for college students.

Audience and agenda:

This video was for the voters of America to see Barack Obama present his education plan.  Interest groups is another audience that this might be targeted towards.  The Obama campaigns agenda is to get Barack’s message out to the public, and try to persuade undecided voters to vote for him.  This video had over 24,000 views on youtube.

Usefulness:

Obama only talked about his plan for making college more affordable for a couple of minutes.  He said that in order to recieve the tax credit applicants would need to provide 100 hours of service to our country (military, peac corp., volunteer work, etc.). Obama also explained that he would make sure that students wanting to become teachers would be provided for college also.

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