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Education in the news 11/28/2008: Obama thanks teachers and parents in Thanksgiving address

November 28, 1:24 PMEducation Headlines ExaminerColin Bane
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Although the economic crisis has been first and foremost in President-elect Barack Obama's planning and in his cabinet appointments, he gave a nice shoutout to America's teachers and parents in his Thanksgiving address yesterday, specifically thanking "teachers who stay late after school and parents who put in that extra hour reading to their kids."

Speaking of education and the economic crisis...

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