【正文】 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.。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.第五篇：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 oblig