My friend said to me, “I missed the President’s speech. What’d he say? Give me hope.”
Ok.
He talked a lot about jobs.
She said, “Jobs? Give me hope about schools!”
I reminded her that he gave us a down-payment on his promise to make education a priority by not only including jobs protection in the [...]
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State of the Hopeful Union
All that fuss about Obama’s speech
The President spoke to America’s students as they begin the school year. I’ve been asked 3,000 times today what all the fuss was about. Why was talk radio and the TV talking heads going full-speed, damn the torpedoes, take no prisoners on… the President’s message to school children that they are responsible for showing up. Doing their homework. Behaving themselves.
