【正文】 y 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.第三篇：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。第一篇：美國總統(tǒng)奧巴馬電臺的演講WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Obama focused on Women’s History Month and paid homage to the acplishments of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the effort to increase the role of women in the important strides that have been made to create a more equal society, he emphasized his resolve to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act as an important step towards achieving egalitarian status for Remarks of PresidentBarack Obama Weekly AddressSaturday, March 5, 2011March is Women’s History Month, a time not only to celebrate the progress that women have made, but also the women throughout our history who have made that progress inspiring American who es to mind is Eleanor 1961, the former First Lady was unhappy about the lack of women in government, so she marched up to President Kennedy and handed him a threepage list of women who were qualified for top posts in his led the President to select as the head of a new mission to look at the status of women in America, and the unfairness they routinely faced in their she passed away before the mission could finish its work, the report they released spurred action across the helped galvanize a movement led by women that would help make our society a more equal ’s been almost fifty years since the Roosevelt mission published its findings – and there have b