claim: "we now have our kids go to school about a month less than most other advanced countries."
author: barack obama
evidence_1: oct 27, 2010 ... more u.s. school districts are moving to year-round classes, msnbc.com's ... but  the cost gives others pause. ... ever pushing the country toward the pacific ocean  and plopping their children into new schools. .... we now have our kids go to  school about a month less than most other advanced countries.
evidence_2: sep 27, 2010 ... “i think we should have longer school years. we now have our kids go to school  about a month less than most other advanced countries, and ...
evidence_3: oct 17, 2014 ... our children have become less literate than children in many developed  countries. but the crisis in american education may be more than a matter of  sliding .... ability to feed the planet, we now need to discover a new food system.  .... later this month near mit and harvard, bringing to america the european ...
evidence_4: dec 17, 2013 ... the united states has much to learn from other countries, especially in ... and  better than only two of 12 other developed comparison countries, italy ... the  ontario system has more than two million public school .... our schools need  fundamental reform....we are not #1 and in fact, ..... i think it's worse now.
evidence_5: one element of our education system consistently surprises them: “sports ... in  countries with more-holistic, less hard-driving education systems than ... was  starting to educate its children for more years than most other countries, .... for  example, when teacher-coaches travel for game days, schools need to ..... this  month.