美国总统在马里兰州布莱登斯堡高中英语演讲稿Word下载.docx

1、 （Applause.） Fantastic. Well, everybody have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you, Leah, for the great introduction. Give Leah a big round of applause. Yay! （Applause.） Meeting young people like Leah just makes me inspired. Its a good way to start the week. And all of the students here who are discovering

2、 and exploring new ideas is one of the reasons I love visiting schools like Bladensburg High. And so I just want to congratulate all of you for the great work that youre doing.I brought a couple of folks here who are helping to facilitate some of the programs here. Mynew Deputy Secretary of Labor, C

3、hris Lu, is here. Give him a big round of applause. （Applause.） And some of the biggest champions for education in Prince Georges County arehere, including your Governor, Martin OMalley. （Applause.） County Executive Rushern Baker. （Applause.） Mayor Walter James. （Applause.） Superintendent Kevin Maxw

4、ell. （Applause.） Yourbiggest fans in Congress, Donna Edwards and Steny Hoyer. （Applause.） We are proud of all ofthem, and were proud of you.All of you remind me, all these young people here, that young people today are working oncooler stuff than they were when I was in high school. In classrooms ac

5、ross the country,students just like the students here, theyre working hard, theyre setting their sights high.And weve got to do everything we can to make sure that all of you have a chance to succeed.And thats why your outstanding principal, Aisha Mahoney, is working so hard at this school. （Applaus

6、e.） Thats why Governor OMalley has been working so hard to repair old schools andbuild new ones across the state of Maryland. And thats why Im here today. Because last year,we launched a national competition to redesign Americas high schools for the 21st century -the 21st century economy. And Im pro

7、ud to say that your hard work here has paid off, becauseone of the winners is Prince Georges County. （Applause.） Good job. Thats right, you guys havedone great. （Applause.）Now, let me tell you why this is so important. Many of the young people here, youve grown upin the midst of one of the worst eco

8、nomic crises of our lifetimes. And its been hard and itsbeen painful. There are a lot of families that lost their homes, lost jobs; a lot of families that arestill hurting out there. But the work that weve done, the groundwork that weve laid, hascreated a situation where were moving in the right dir

9、ection. Our businesses have createdalmost 9 million new jobs over the last four years. Our high school graduation rate is thehighest on record. Dropout rates are going down; among Latinos, the dropout rate has been cutin half since 2019. （Applause.） More young people are earning college degrees than

10、 ever before.Weve been bringing troops home from two wars. More than 7 million Americans have nowsigned up for health coverage through the Affordable Care Act. （Applause.）So weve been making progress, but weve got more work to do to make sure that every one ofthese young people, that everybody who i

11、s willing to work hard has the chance to get ahead.Weve got to make sure that our economy works for everybody, not just a few. Weve got tomake sure opportunity exists for all people. No matter who you are, no matter where youstarted out, youve got to have confidence that if you work hard and take re

12、sponsibility, youcan make it.And thats the chance that this country gave me. Its the chance that this country gaveMichelle. And thats why were working so hard for what we call an opportunity agenda - onethat gives everybody a shot. And there are four simple goals: We want to create new jobs. Wewant

13、to make sure that people have the skills to fill those jobs. We want to make sure everyyoung person has a world-class education. And we want to make sure that we reward hard workwith things like health care you can count on and wages you can live on.And Maryland and Governor OMalley have been workin

14、g alongside us on these issues, and Iwant to give a special shout-out to the Maryland legislature because, because of GovernorOMalleys leadership, you are helping to make sure that we are raising more peoples wageswith your push to raise your minimum wage right here in Maryland. （Applause.） Were ver

15、yproud to see that happen. And I hope Governor OMalley is going to sign it into law soon. GiveMaryland a raise. （Applause.） Thats good work.But the main focus here is guaranteeing every young person has access to a world-classeducation. Every single student. Now, that starts before high school. Weve

16、 got to start at theyoungest ages by making sure weve got high-quality preschool and other early learningprograms for every young child in America. （Applause.） It makes a difference.Weve got to make sure that every student has access to the worlds information and the worldsbest technology, and thats

17、 why were moving forward with an initiative we call ConnectED tofinally connect 99 percent of Americas students to high-speed Internet in the next few years. （Applause.） It means that weve got to rein in college costs - because I want to make sure thatLeah, when she goes to school, shes not burdened

18、 with too much debt. （Applause.） And wevegot to make it easier to repay student loans - because none of the young people here should bedenied a higher education just because your family has trouble affording it. And a world-classeducation means preparing every young person with the skills they need

19、for college, for acareer, and for a lifetime of citizenship.So what we did was we launched a new competition, backed by Americas Departments ofEducation and Labor, to start redesigning some of our high schools. We call it YouthCareerConnect. And were offering $100 million in new grants to help schoo

20、ls and local partnersdevelop and test new curricula and models for success. We want to invest in your future.You guys are all coming up in an age where youre not going to be able to compete with peopleacross town for good jobs - youre going to be competing with the rest of the world. Youngpeople in

21、India and China, theyre all interested in trying to figure out how they get a footholdin this world economy. Thats who youre competing against. Now, Im confident you canmatch or exceed anything they do, but we dont do it by just resting on what weve donebefore. Weve got to out-work and out-innovate

22、and out-hustle everybody else. Weve got tothink about new ways of doing things.And part of our concern has been our high schools, a lot of them were designed withcurriculums based on the 1940s and 50s and 60s, and havent been updated. So the ideabehind this competition is how do we start making high

23、 school, in particular, moreinteresting, more exciting, more relevant to young people.Last year, for example, I visited a school called P-TECH - this is in Brooklyn - a high schoolthat partnered with IBM and the City University of New York to offer its students not only a highschool diploma, but als

24、o an associates degree in computer systems or electromechanicalengineering. IBM said that P-TECH graduates would be the first in line for jobs.Then I visited a high school in Nashville that offers “academies” where students focus on aspecific subject area - but theyre also getting hands-on experienc

25、e running their own creditunion, working in their own TV studios, learning 3D printing, tinkering with their own airplane - which was pretty cool. I never got to do that. I did get my own airplane later in life. （Laughter.） Although Ive got to give it back. （Laughter.） I dont get to keep it.But this

26、 is stuff I didnt get to do when I was in high school - and I wish I had. But its stuffyou have to know how to do today, in todays economy. Things are moving faster, theyre moresophisticated.So we challenged Americas high schools to look at whats happening in a place like P-TECH,look at whats happen

27、ing in cities like Nashville, and then say what can you do to make sureyour students learn the skills that businesses are looking for in high-demand fields. And weasked high schools to develop partnerships with colleges and employers, and create classes thatfocus on real-life applications for the fi

28、elds of the future - fields like science and technology andengineering and math. And part of the reason we have to do this now is because othercountries, theyve got a little bit of a lead on us on some of these areas.A country like Germany right now focuses on graduating their high school students w

29、ith atechnical degree equivalent that give them a head start. So were asking schools to look intowhat places like Germany are doing.Now, not every school that enters into this competition for the $100 million is going to win -because we dont have enough money for everybody, and we want to force scho

30、ols to think hardand redesign, and we want to reward the schools that are being most innovative and areactually proving some of the concepts that theyre trying out. But the great thing is thatthrough this competition, schools across the country that entered have changed the way theyprepare their stu

31、dents, and have already made enormous improvements, even before they getthe grant. And, ultimately, we had to choose the top Youth CareerConnect initiatives. Today,Im proud to say that schools across America are putting up some pretty impressive proposals.The winners across the board are doing the k

32、inds of stuff that will allow other schools to startduplicating what theyre doing. The winners in Indianapolis are expanding their career prepprograms to encourage more young women and kids from diverse backgrounds to join ourscience and technology workforce. New York City likes that Brooklyn high school model, P-TECH,so much that theyre using their grant to fund two more just like it, so that students can gaintwo degrees at once and get the edge they need in tod