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- 10-12-2010
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Blog by Marian Wright Edelman/Huffington Post
As America’s children headed back to school in September, President Obama delivered a televised back-to-school address to the nation’s students from the Julia R. Masterman School in Philadelphia, an acclaimed public magnet school for fifth through twelfth graders. He spoke about the importance of hard work -- a lesson his own mother was quick to drill into him as soon as she sensed his effort level in high school was starting to hit a slump. Passing along the lesson he learned, the president told the students: (more…)
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