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【文章內容簡介】 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 Obama Weekly Address February 20, 2010The other week, men and women across California opened up their mailboxes to find a letter from Anthem Blue news inside was was alerting almost a million of its customers that it would be raising premiums by an average of 25 percent, with about a quarter of folks likely to see their rates go up by anywhere from 35 to 39 , after their announcement stirred public outcry, Anthem agreed to delay their rate hike until May 1st while the situation is reviewed by the state of it’s not just Californians who are being hit by rate Kansas, one insurance pany raised premiums by 10 to 20 percent only after asking to raise them by 20 to 30 year, Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield raised rates by 22 percent after asking to raise them by up to 56 in Maine, Anthem is asking to raise rates for some folks by about 23 bottom line is that the status quo is good for the insurance industry and bad for the past year, as families and small business owners have struggled to pay soaring health care costs, and as millions of Americans lost their coverage, the five largest insurers made record profits of over $12 as bad as things are today, they’ll only get worse if we fail to ’ll see more and more Americans go without the coverage they ’ll see exploding premiums and outofpocket costs burn through more and more family ’ll see more and more small businesses scale back benefits, drop coverage, or close down because they can’t keep up with rising in time, we’ll see these skyrocketing health care costs bee the single largest driver of our federal ’s what the future is on track to look it’s not what the future has to look question, then, is whether we will do what it takes, all of us – Democrats and Republicans – to build a better future for ourselves, our children, and our ’s why, next week, I am inviting members of both parties to take part in a bipartisan health care meeting, and I hope they e in a spirit of good don’t want to see this meeting turn into political theater, with each side simply reciting talking points and trying to score political , I ask members of both parties to seek mon ground in an effort to solve a problem that’s been with us for ’s in that spirit that I have sought out and supported Republican ideas on reform from the very Republicans want to allow Americans to purchase insurance from a pany in another state to give people more choices and bring down Republicans have also suggested giving small businesses the power to pool together and offer health care at lower p