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Duncan says furor over Obama speech 'silly' (AP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 05:23 PM PDT AP - 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.

White House wades in to calm Obama school speech uproar (AFP) Posted: 06 Sep 2009 02:51 PM PDT AFP - The White House tried Sunday to allay some parents' fears that a speech President Barack Obama will deliver at a Virginia school this week is an attempt to ply American children with liberal propaganda.

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