Obama’s education plan is a comprehensive approach to education reform. It is a 5 part exploration into standards investment and incentive. Its a paradigm approach for the 21st century world and is outlined as follows:

1.    Invest in early childhood education/early learning programs. There is a  Early Learning Challenge Grant available. see whithouse.gov
2.    Improve standards and assessments. Bring our curriculums to the 21st century. Get the forward-thinking states  moving in the same direction by coming together as part of a consortium. And more states need to do the same.  Calling on our nation's governors and state education chiefs to develop standards and assessments that don't simply measure whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking and entrepreneurship and creativity.  Provide teachers and principals with the information they need to make sure students are prepared to meet those standards.
3.    Recruiting, preparing, and rewarding outstanding teachers
4.    Promoting innovation and excellence in America's schools.  Invest in developing new strategies to make sure at-risk students don't give up on their education; new efforts to give dropouts who want to return to school the help they need to graduate; and new ways to put those young men and women who have left school back on a pathway to graduation.
5.    Provide every American with a quality higher education: raising the maximum Pell Grant to $5,550 a year and indexing it above inflation. Also provide a $2,500-a-year tuition tax credit for students from working families and modernize and expand the Perkins Loan Program.