Ed. Note: The Race to the Top Commencement Challenge is back! Applications for the 2011 Commencement Challenge are open until February 25. To learn more about the Commencement Challenge and submit your application visit WhiteHouse.gov/Commencement. Every wondered what would happen if the President of the United States walked into an auditorium full of unsuspecting high school […]
Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, President Obama released his federal budget, discussing the need to take responsibility for our deficits while investing in education, to prepare our children to be competitive in the global economy and win the future. He also responded […]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act turns two years old today, thus prompting the Tin Man’s question: what have we learned from the implementation of the economic stimulus? Some interesting and provocative answers to that question can be found in a new report out today, entitled A New Way of Doing Business: How the Recovery Act […]
“This year’s Medal of Freedom recipients reveal the best of who we are and who we aspire to be,” President Obama said at the ceremony to award the Nation’s highest civilian honor. He described the occasion as “one of the things that I most look forward to every year. It’s a chance to meet with — and, more […]
As he said in his State of the Union, education is a key pillar of winning the future for America. That means more than just investing, it means focusing on reform, responsibility, and results, which is why the President met with a bipartisan group of legislators to discuss education reform efforts this morning. The White House readout of their […]
Editor’s note: This post is part of the Celebrating Black History Month series, which highlights the contributions of African Americans throughout the Administration whose work contributes to the President’s vision for winning the future. Black History Month has special meaning to me. As a son of the segregated South, I was twenty-four before I was […]
The President speaks from the Intel campus in Oregon about educating our kids for the jobs of tomorrow so we can make sure America wins the future. Click here to see the video. Fonte: White House
A quick look at the week of February 14, 2011: A Budget for Winning the Future: The President unveils his 2012 Budget. Find out more about what’s in it, explore an interactive breakdown of where your tax dollar go, and learn how it puts America back on a track to fiscal discipline while still investing in the […]
Click here to see the photo gallery. Last week, Vice President Joe Biden paid a visit to Ft. Campbell, Kentucky to meet with the Fort Campbell High School Football Team, whose notable success in recent years has come despite the many challenges they face. While the high school is public and receives government funding just […]
School reform is often portrayed as an unavoidable conflict between labor (teachers) and management (superintendents and principals). Well, earlier this week I joined a conference of local teachers’ union presidents, school district superintendents and school board presidents that are working together to make important inroads against that conventional wisdom. These educators represent 150 school districts, […]
