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Barack Obama: “Public schools, we know how to teach kids effectively.”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama Discusses Democracy, Social Cohesion, and Leadership at the Connecticut Forum

Published | Video Starts at 27:35

Most of the problems we have have to do with how do we cooperate and work together. Not, you know, do we have a 10 point plan or the absence of it. Public schools, we know how to teach kids effectively. but organizing school boards and making sure adequate funding is there and making sure that teachers can teach, and that's what's hard. So if you ask me right now what, what is our biggest challenge? (27:35–27:40)

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Asserts that effective teaching methods for public schools are known.

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