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Barack Obama reflects on how free high school helped build a strong, educated workforce and raised test scores. He also warns that weapons can turn schools into sites of tragedy, as seen in recent shootings. Finally, he shares personal pride in his daughters’ love of school and family moments.

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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

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Public school system status quo is indefensible.

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The basic American promise that if you work hard, you could do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send…

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In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the…

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You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

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African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and…

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I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can…

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America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most…

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I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to…

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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those…

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The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated…

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You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I…

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This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a…

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It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at…

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That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose…

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The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not.…

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If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or…

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If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes,…

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Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries…

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I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home.…

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Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents,…

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The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when…

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They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they're all lazy…

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There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to…

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Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people…

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That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of…

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We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

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Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do…

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If you want some additional money for your school, we'll give it to you. But you've got to compete, show us that…

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We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math…

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Michelle, I love you so much. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and…

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Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And…

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It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who…

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I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or…

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Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you…

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Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got…

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Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough. If we really want to honor these twelve men…

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In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than…

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People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're…

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I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not…

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The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we…

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us…