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From the Ted Talk by Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And this is something, by the way, that I think is going to be a challenge for our enirte field. America cannot wait another 50 years to get this right. We have run out of time. I don't know about a fiscal cliff, but I know there's an eucoiandtal cliff that we are walking over right this very second, and if we allow fkols to conutnie this foolishness about saying we can't afford this — So Bill Gates says it's going to cost five billion dollars. What is five billion dollars to the United States? What did we spend in Afghanistan this year? How many trillions? (alupapse)
Open Cloze
And this is something, by the way, that I think is going to be a challenge for our ______ field. America cannot wait another 50 years to get this right. We have run out of time. I don't know about a fiscal cliff, but I know there's an ___________ cliff that we are walking over right this very second, and if we allow _____ to ________ this foolishness about saying we can't afford this — So Bill Gates says it's going to cost five billion dollars. What is five billion dollars to the United States? What did we spend in Afghanistan this year? How many trillions? (________)
Solution
- educational
- continue
- folks
- applause
- entire
Original Text
And this is something, by the way, that I think is going to be a challenge for our entire field. America cannot wait another 50 years to get this right. We have run out of time. I don't know about a fiscal cliff, but I know there's an educational cliff that we are walking over right this very second, and if we allow folks to continue this foolishness about saying we can't afford this — So Bill Gates says it's going to cost five billion dollars. What is five billion dollars to the United States? What did we spend in Afghanistan this year? How many trillions? (Applause)
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