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Imagine if I let go of my habit of saving the world behind your back, of deliberating on the future of your work, your food, your schools, in places where you couldn't get past security.
They restructured its failing schools, and much more.
We keep them safe and sound and fed and watered, and then we want to be sure they go to the right schools, that they're in the right classes at the right schools, and that they get the right grades in the right classes in the right schools.
The very biggest brand-name schools are asking that of our young adults, but here's the good news.
And if we could widen our blinders and be willing to look at a few more colleges, maybe remove our own egos from the equation, we could accept and embrace this truth and then realize, it is hardly the end of the world if our kids don't go to one of those big brand-name schools.
Like many urban schools with high poverty rates, we face numerous challenges, like finding teachers who can empathize with the complexities of a disadvantaged community, lack of funding for technology, low parental involvement and neighborhood gangs that recruit children as early as fourth grade.
This is nearly 200 children, who are now going to some of the most competitive high schools in New York City.
The revolution in education is happening in our schools, with adults who provide love, structure, support and knowledge.
There are failing schools in a lot of these communities, failing to give kids the educational leg up that really makes it possible for kids to have opportunities later in life.
People who were members of my family, young people I had worked with, were experiencing harassment at schools, at workplaces and in airports.
I was like an educational Moses screaming, "Let my people go ... to high-quality schools!" (Laughter) I'd seen firsthand how the other half was being treated and educated.
With the help of philanthropic white people, they built their own schools.
Some argue that today our schools are now more segregated than they ever were before we tried to desegregate them in the first place.
Teaching my kids about desegregation, the Little Rock Nine, the Civil Rights Movement, is a real awkward moment in my classroom, when I have to hear the voice of a child ask, "If schools were desegregated in 1954, how come there are no white kids here?"
This sends a sound wave downwards, and then the reflection, the echo from the sound wave from the seabed or schools of fish, gives us an idea of what's happening below the surface.
So these students come to a classroom, they're joined by a community teacher and they're connected to urban schools online.
We need to be proud of our middle schools.
And when we have the best middle schools in the world, we'll have the best kids pumped out of that system, let me tell you.
Not only did they have to invest in the schools, but those kids couldn't work at their jobs.
What this example highlights is the primacy of our institutions, most especially our schools, in allowing us to reap the harvest of our technological prosperity.
If the US had not invested in its schools and in its skills a century ago with the high school movement, we would be a less prosperous, a less mobile and probably a lot less happy society.
And with all the resources that we are pouring into schools, we should stop and ask ourselves: Are we really setting our kids up for success?
As part of my work at the White House, we instituted a program that for all schools that had 40 percent more low-income kids, we could serve breakfast and lunch to every kid in that school.
See, schools serve breakfast before school, and it was only available for the poor kids.
Well, the schools that have implemented this program saw an increase in math and reading scores by 17.5 percent.
Kids, schools, caregivers, parents: it's essential.
You know, every city has parks, libraries, schools and other public buildings that have the potential to be reimagined as social connectors.
They talked to every country that made nuclear weapons and asked them, "Which digital 'weapon' would you take off the table against somebody else's schools or hospitals?"
We create social risks for one another, even in schools which are supposed to be all about learning, and I'm not talking about standardized tests.
I mean that every minute of every day, many students in elementary schools through colleges feel that if they make a mistake, others will think less of them.
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