- Dec 14 2011, 4:57pm
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Watch Shakira’s swearing-in speech on Thursday as part of President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.
After the jump, read the full transcript of her speech, in which she stressed the importance of early childhood education for Latinos in the United States based on her 15 years experience working with children in Colombia and Latin America.
President Obama welcomes Google science fair winners to Oval Office
Notice anything about the three of them? Nicely done, ladies!
(via The White House)
Chart of the Day: The amount that students owe quintupled between 2000 and 2011. For more, check out our MoJo College Guide.
Were Most Americans Changed by 9/11?
Change, of course, happens daily, incrementally. And most Americans are far more resilient than the experts and public gave them credit for.
Benjamin Radford delves into the “Everything has changed” concept.