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WASHINGTON -- The furor surrounding President Barack Obama's upcoming address to the nation's schoolchildren is "just silly," his education chief said Sunday, and a conservative senator who led the Education Department in the first Bush administration suggested teachers make it a civics lesson.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan's department has taken heat for proposed lesson plans distributed to accompany Tuesday's speech. He acknowledged that a section about writing to the president on how students can help him meet education goals was poorly worded. It has been changed.See the full content of this document
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Ed Chief Calls Speech Furor 'Silly'
Debate about conservative objections to the speech has dominated c...
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