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OCR Page 1 of 62THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
February 7, 1997
REMARKS BY MRS. CLINTON
AT THE EDUCATION AWARDS CEREMONY
The State Department
Washington, D.C.
MRS. CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you, Terry, and thank all of you from the
Department of Education who are here for your hard work and vision, not only in this area, but
in so many of the others on which we have made progress in the last four years. I want to thank
the sponsors of these awards. Terry's already mentioned Nortel and Glaxo-Wellcome and
Keenan and the regional education laboratories. This is one of the most important statements
that we could make about how we will achieve the high educational goals that the President
outlined in his call for action last evening.
I had the opportunity as all, I hope, of you did as well to listen to that speech --
(laughter) -- and to hear the emphasis that the President placed on education as a national
security issue, as one that we should turn our attention to with the same commitment and
nonpartisan zeal that we in the last 50 years gave to our foreign policy in our efforts to win the
Cold War. (Applause.)
There are some who still will question why is the President of the United states, on the
eve of a new century, spending about half of his State of the Union talking about education. To
those who might ask that question, I would reply, as the President did last evening, that it is
through education and a national commitment to education that we have the best opportunity to
lift up all of our people to be in a position to take advantage of the opportunities that will be
available to them in the future.
You saw last evening that there were two students and a teacher who had participated in
a rather remarkable consortium in the area north of Chicago to put together best practices so that
20 school districts could pool that information and they could prepare their students to compete
in the Third International Math and Science Study Test. For a number of years, starting back in
1983 when my husband asked me to chair the education standards committee in Arkansas, I
have followed with great interest the international measurements that have been utilized to
determine where our students stacked up against their peers around the world.
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