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Obama honors teachers, touts education bill

  • 05-04-2011
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By David Jackson/USA Today

Life is starting to move on, and President Obama turned attention back today to one of his favorite domestic issues: education. In honoring the National Teacher of the Year, President Obama also put in a plug for changes to the No Child Left Behind education law that would make it "less punitive, more focused, (and) more flexible." "That means doing a better job of preparing teachers, doing a better job of measuring their success in the classroom, helping them improve in providing professional development, and then holding them accountable," Obama said during a Rose Garden ceremony. (more...)

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