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Michelle Obama underscores the importance of global education and beams into Stanford from Beijing
Stanford.edu ^ | March 22, 2014 | Barbara Buell

Posted on 03/24/2014 6:00:47 AM PDT by KeyLargo

Stanford Report, March 22, 2014

Michelle Obama underscores the importance of global education and beams into Stanford from Beijing

Speaking at the Stanford Center at Peking University in Beijing on Saturday, Michelle Obama said study abroad allows students to realize that countries all have a stake in each other's success. Following her remarks, she held a conversation with students on the Stanford campus via a high-tech videoconference.

Michelle Obama promoted study abroad programs during a speech at the Stanford Center at Peking University in Beijing on Saturday, then encouraged Stanford and local high school students sitting in Palo Alto to be "citizen diplomats" during a high-tech videoconference.

In her remarks before the conversation with students, the first lady said that study abroad is a "vital part of our foreign policy."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china; commoncore; education; michelle; obama; obamavacation; schools; teachers; tyranny
Yep, plenty of examples of good schools in China.


1 posted on 03/24/2014 6:00:47 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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2 posted on 03/24/2014 6:15:51 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The future ain't what it use to be -- Yogi Berra)
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3 posted on 03/24/2014 6:16:25 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Why does anyone (with a functioning brain cell) care what the Worst Lady grifter has to say about anything? Is she enjoying her latest vacay on the taxpayers’ dime?


4 posted on 03/24/2014 6:33:52 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Michelle Obama beams... ... into Stanford from Beijing


5 posted on 03/24/2014 6:41:01 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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All that we've heard out of FLOTUS is that Michelle Obama is an ignorant slut (to paraphrase SNL).
6 posted on 03/24/2014 6:45:09 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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Reeducation/Indoctrination camps of the likes on the TV show Revolution.


7 posted on 03/24/2014 6:47:20 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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Soon it will be a “basic human right” for all students to spend time studying in foreign countries, paid for by you and me.


8 posted on 03/24/2014 6:52:40 AM PDT by NEMDF
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President Barack Obama with China’s Communist Party leader, President Jiang Zemin. "Comrade Jinping, Obama gave me American plans for Common Core."

9 posted on 03/24/2014 7:08:25 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Who wouldn’t want to study abroad and sit in public on little potty chairs?


10 posted on 03/24/2014 8:51:50 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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