【正文】 lth insurance for folks who have lost jobs。increasing our mitment to research and technology。these are folks who share their stories with me in letters and at town hall meetings。school boards and ’s why in my State of the Union address this year, I said that Congress should reform the No Child Left Behind law based on the same principles that have guided Race to the the goals behind No Child Left Behind were admirable, experience has taught us that the law has some serious flaws that are hurting our children instead of helping are being forced to teach to a test, while subjects like history and science are being squeezed in order to avoid having their schools labeled as failures, some states lowered their standards in a race to the problems have been obvious to parents and educators all over this country for for years, Congress has failed to fix now, I kids only get one shot at a decent they can’t afford to wait any , I announced that we’ll be giving states more flexibility to meet high standards for teaching and ’s time for us to let states, schools and teachers e up with innovative ways to give our children the skills they need to pete for the jobs of the will make a huge difference in the lives of students all across the , I was with Ricky Hall, the principal of a school in Worcester, single student who graduated from Ricci’s school in the last three years went on to because they didn’t meet the standards of No Child Left Behind, Ricci’s school was labeled as failing last will change because of what we did now on, we’ll be able to encourage the progress at schools like Ricci’ now on, people like John Becker, who teaches at one of the highestperforming middle schools in ., will be able to focus on teaching his 4th graders math in a way that improves their performance instead of just teaching to a like David Estrop from Ohio will be able to focus on improving teaching and learning in his district instead of spending all his time on bureaucratic mandates from Washington that don’t get isn’t just the right thing to do for our kids – it’s the right thing to do for our country, and our is time to put our teachers back on the is time to rebuild and modernize our it is time to raise our standards, up our game, and do everything it takes to prepare our children succeed in the global is the time to once again make our education system the envy of the world.第四篇：Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressSaturday, August 1st, 2009 Today, I’d like to talk with you about a subject that I know is on everyone’s mind, and that’s the state of our , we received a report on our Gross Domestic ’s a measure of our overall economic report showed that in the first few months of this year, the recession we faced when I took office was even deeper than anyone thought at the told us how close we were to the it also revealed that in the last few months, the economy has done measurably better than many economists suggest that part of this progress is directly attributable to the Recovery and the other difficult but important steps that we have taken over the last six months have helped put the brakes on this took unprecedented action to stem the spread of foreclosures by helping responsible homeowners stay in their homes and pay their helped revive the credit markets and open up loans for families and small we enacted a Recovery Act that put tax cuts directly into the pockets of middleclass families and small businesses。building new roads and bridges, highspeed rail andhighspeed cities and towns throughout America, I’ve seen the benefits of these schools and colleges of Oregon are providing Intel – the state’s largest private employer – with a steady stream of highlyeducated workers and Parkville Middle School outside of Baltimore, engineering is the most popular subject, thanks to outstanding teachers who are inspiring students to focus on their mathand science Wisconsin, a pany called Orion is putting hundreds of people to work manufacturing energyefficient lights in a onceshuttered in the small munity of Marquette, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, widely accessible highspeed internet has allowed students and entrepreneurs to connect to the global fact one small business, a thirdgeneration, familyowned clothing shop called Getz’s is now selling their pro