This week, I went to Memphis, Tennessee, where I spoke to the graduating class of Booker T. Washington High School.

本周，我去了田纳西州的孟菲斯市，在那里我向布克·华盛顿高中的毕业班同学们发表了演说。

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But this commencement was especially hopeful - because of just how much the kids at Booker T. Washington High School had overcome.

但这场毕业典礼却尤其充满了希望——因为这是布克·华盛顿高中的同学们克服了那么多的困难才赢得的！

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So Booker T. Washington High School is no longer a story about what’s gone wrong in education.

因此，布克·华盛顿高中再也不是上学无用论的传言。

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He was there in the motorcade, driving to Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, when press secretary Ari Fleischer first got a "page" on his pager -- "Back then, we didn't have BlackBerrys, " said Draper -- alerting the White House that a single plane had hit the World Trade Center.

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Now, I will admit being President is a great job. (Laughter.) I have a very nice plane. (Laughter.) I have a theme song. (Laughter.) But what I enjoy most is having a chance to come to a school like Booker T.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Gives Commencement Address at Booker T. Washington High School | The White House

Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty and Cory Booker and many other advocates of school choice and accountability are liberals (though one wonders about Rhee).

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