Barack Obama

Barack Obama > Education

As a graduate of Columbia and Harvard Law School, Senator Obama knows a thing or two about the importance of a quality education. Here he shares his thoughts with the folks at the Center for American Progress about the current state and future of the American education system. His message? “We face a future where the ideal of American meritocracy could turn into an American myth.

As countries who are out-educating us today out-compete our workers tomorrow.” Though we do not face them in interscholastic, intercontinental cricket matches or football games, students in places like Boise and Boston, in today’s world, compete with students in locales like Beijing and Bangalore. Senator Obama is simply telling us to put our game faces on and step it up.
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Candidate At a Glance

Name:	Barack Obama
Age:	45
Hometown:	Chicago, IL
Education:	BA Columbia University, JD Harvard Law School
Marital Status:	Married
Children:	Two
Political Party:	Democratic
Current Job:	Senator, Illinois

Websites of Interest:

•	Obama Senate Site
•	Campaign Site
•	Students for Barack Obama
•	Run Obama
•	Wikipedia

Contributors: Paul Perry, American University '07;
Mike Simmons, Amherst College '06