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Finally in the last presidential debate education made an appearance. Want to find out more about what Obama and McCain stands on this very important issue?

Diane Rehm recently hosted a segment on “The Presidential Candidates’ Education Proposals.” Some guests include Michelle Rhee and Lisa Graham Keegan.

(disclaimer: I work for Edweek.org.)
Edweek on Tuesday (10/21) carried a live webcast of a debate between the education advisers of both the Obama and McCain camp. The turn out was great. The debate itself was very informative and at times testy. You can see the archived webcast or read the transcript from this page.

Or, stay tuned to Edweek’s Youtube channel for clips of the debate broken down by topics. And check Edweek’s Vimeo Channel for full archived videos.

Also, who can miss out on the twitter fun? If you search for #tcdebate or tcdebate on twitter, you should see all the related tweets - which were shown here during the debate (bottom of page now after debate ended).

Speaking of fun, can’t miss out on Wordle either! Here’s the word cloud generated from the debate transcript. BIGGEST word is “education.” (seriously? there’s a shocker…not.)

(updated 10/23 17:05)
Edweek’s reporter/blogger David Hoff actually used another Wordle cloud to blog about the focus of the debate. I created this alternative version stripping out some common words (as you can see from the first cloud) that do not help indicate the focus (i.e. “education, senator”).

Ok, this is the end of my self-promotion of the day!