Former Teachers College honcho Arthur Levine has done the math:
Of the first 12 hours of debates among the presidential candidates this year, they have given education less than 33 minutes of lip service.
And if you take out the 19 minutes that came from one Democratic debate alone at Howard University on June 28 (prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier in the day against voluntary integration efforts), and you get an idea of how little education seems to be penetrating the campaigns this season.
Levine suggests that this is only going to get worse in the coming years as Baby Boomers move on to more pressing Boomer issues: