【正文】 ”For less than one percent of what we spend on education each year, Race to the Top has led states across the country to raise their standards for teaching and standards were developed, not by Washington, but by Republican and Democratic governors throughout the since then, we have seen what’s possible when reform isn’t just a topdownmandate, but the work of local teachers and principals。not on the next election but on the next is what we can do, and that is what we must do when we e together for this bipartisan health care meeting next you, and have a great weekend.第二篇：美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬每周電臺演講2011obm0924【美國總統(tǒng)電臺演說】20110924 Over the last few weeks, I’ve been making the case that we need to act now on the American Jobs Act, so we can put folks back to work and start building an economy that lasts into the is an essential part of this economic is an undeniable fact that countries who outeducate us today will outpete us will hire wherever the highlyskilled, highlytrained workers are today, our students are sliding against their peers around the , our kids trail too many other countries in math, science, and many as a quarter of our students aren’t even finishing high we’ve fallen to 16th in the proportion of our young people with a college degree, even though we know that sixty percent of new jobs in the ing decade will require more than a high school this means is that if we’re serious about building an economy that lasts – an economy in which hard work pays off with the opportunity for solid middle class jobs – we had better be serious about have to pick up our game and raise our a nation, we have an obligation to make sure that all children have the resources they need to learn – quality schools, good teachers, the latest textbooks and the right ’s why the jobs bill I sent to Congress would put tens of thousands of teachers back to work across the country, and modernize at least 35,000 39。provided relief to struggling states to prevent layoffs of teachers and police officers。reforming intelligence to better detect and disrupt plots。and working closer than ever with states, cities and decade after 9/11, it’s clear for all the world to see—the terrorists who attacked us that September morning are no match for the character of our people, the resilience of our nation, or the endurance of our wanted to terrorize us, but, as Americans, we refuse to live in we face a determined foe, and make no mistake—they will keep trying to hit us as we are showing again this weekend, we remain ’re doing everything in our power to protect our no matter what es our way, as a resilient nation, we will carry wanted to draw us in to endless wars, sapping our strength and confidence as a even as we put relentless pressure on al Qaeda, we’re ending the war in Iraq and beginning to bring our troops home from after a hard decade of war, it is time for nation building here at wanted to deprive us of the unity that defines us as a we will not succumb to division or are Americans, and we are stronger and safer when we stay true to the values, freedoms and diversity that make us unique among they wanted to undermine our place in the a decade later, we’ve shown that America doesn’t hunker down and hide behind walls of ’ve forged new partnerships with nations around the world to meet the global challenges that no nation can face across the Middle East and North Africa a new generation of citizens is showing that the future belongs to those that want to build, not years ago, ordinary Americans showed us the true meaning of courage when they rushed up those stairwells, into those flames, into that the decade since, a new generation has stepped forward to serve and keep us their memory, in their name, we will never will protect the country we love and pass it safer, stronger and more prosperous to the next generation.