Name: President Obama Delivers Remarks on Education
Uploaded: 2017-11-15T01:09:19.000Z
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Good thing you all had your phones with you.

As the father of two teenage daughters, I know the whole

time you were just like, "And then he said -- girl,

A couple of people I want to acknowledge.

First of all, I want to thank our Secretary of

Education, who has done outstanding work, John King

And then, my great friend and former Education

Secretary and multiple winner of the three-on-three

contest, as well as at the NBA All-Star Game -- he can

We've got your mayor; Muriel Bowser is here.

Your representative, Eleanor Holmes Norton.

And we are so grateful not only for their service to

the country, but the amazing work they're doing with

their philanthropic work and America's Promise, Colin and

So, by now you've settled into the new year.

Getting the nerve to text that cute girl or boy in

I don't remember that; we did not have texts.

And then we used to actually have to go up to somebody if

Seniors are looking at colleges, taking tests,

Malia just went through this, so I know how tough

But as I'm winding down my presidency -- I was so

impressed with Banneker the last time I was here in 2011

-- because you're an example of a school that's doing

And I believe that if you're going to be able to do

whatever you want to do in your lives -- if you want to

become a teacher, or a doctor, or start a business,

or develop the next great app, or be President -- then

And when you graduate, you're no longer going to be

competing just with somebody here in D.C. for a great job.

You're competing with somebody on the other side

of the world, in China or in India, because jobs can go

wherever they want because of the Internet and because

And the best jobs are going to go to the people who are

the best educated -- whether in India or China, or

So when I took office almost eight years ago, we knew

that our education system was falling short when it

Our public schools had been the envy of the world, but

And we started getting outpaced when it came to

And African American and Latino students, in part

because of the legacy of discrimination, too often

lagged behind our white classmates -- something

called the achievement gap that, by one estimate, costs

us hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

And we were behind other developed countries when it

came to the number of young people who were getting a

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