Obama’s Education Speech

Barack Obama speaking in Dayton, OH, Sept. 9, 2008

Barack Obama delivered a major speech on education policy yesterday in Dayton, Ohio. In his address, entitled “A 21st Century Education,” Obama stressed the importance and urgency of preparing our kids to compete globally:

Our kids and our country can’t afford four more years of neglect and indifference. At this defining moment in our history, America faces few more urgent challenges than preparing our children to compete in a global economy. The decisions our leaders make about education in the coming years will shape our future for generations to come. They will help determine not only whether our children have the chance to fulfill their God-given potential, or whether our workers have the chance to build a better life for their families, but whether we, as a nation, will remain in the 21st century the kind of global economic leader that we were in the 20th century.

Video of the speech is up on YouTube, and also right here, after the jump.

The full text of Obama’s speech is available at uft.org, as is Randi Weingarten’s response.

Tagged: election '08, Obama

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