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【正文】 better be serious about have to pick up our game and raise our a nation, we have an obligation to make sure that all children have the resources they need to learn – quality schools, good teachers, the latest textbooks and the right ’s why the jobs bill I sent to Congress would put tens of thousands of teachers back to work across the country, and modernize at least 35,000 39。s why Congress should pass that bill right money alone won’t solve our education also need need to make sure that every classroom is a place of high expectations and high ’s been our vision since taking that’s why instead of just pouring money into a system that’s not working, we launched a petition called Race to the all fifty states, we said, “If you show us the most innovative plans to improve teacher quality and student achievement, we’ll show you the money.”For less than one percent of what we spend on education each year, Race to the Top has led states across the country to raise their standards for teaching and standards were developed, not by Washington, but by Republican and Democratic governors throughout the since then, we have seen what’s possible when reform isn’t just a topdownmandate, but the work of local teachers and principals。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.