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Monday, February 11, 2013

What Obama should say about education in State of Union

What Obama should say about education in State of Union:


What Obama should say about education in State of Union

President Obama giving State of Union in 2012. (whitehouse.gov)
President Obama giving State of Union address in 2012. (whitehouse.gov)
Bill Moyers asked experts in different policy areas to write what they would like to hear President Obama say in Tuesday’s State of the Union address (which you can read all about on his website here.) One of those experts is education historian Diane Ravitch, who wrote the following about what she would like to hear from Obama in his speech:
My fellow Americans, I have said in previous addresses on this occasion that the key to our future success is to make sure that the education we provide our young people is the best in the world. I have said that we must out-educate and out-innovate