February 25, 2009

Obama Pledges to Support Education, Urging All Americans to Get 'More Than a High-School Diploma'

By Kelly Field

Washington

In a nationally televised address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama promised to increase federal spending on education, while ending “education programs that don’t work.”

He urged all Americans to pursue “a year or more” of higher education, or career training, and set a goal for the nation to have the world’s highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.

“Every American will need to get more than a high-school diploma,” he

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