【正文】 eing 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.第二篇：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。and made investments that are putting people back to work rebuilding and renovating roads, bridges, schools, and , I realize that none of this is much fort for Americans who are still out of work or struggling to make ends when we receive our monthly job report next week, it is likely to show that we are continuing to lose far too many jobs in this far as I’m concerned, we will not have a recovery as long as we keep losing I won’t rest until every American who wants a job can find history shows that you need to have economic growth before you have job the report yesterday on our economy is an important sign that we’re headed in the right investment, which had been plummeting in the past few months, is showing signs of means that eventually, businesses will start growing and hiring that’s when it will really feel like a recovery to the American won’t happen I’ve said before, it will take many more months to