welcome president from peru. he is in town for a separate visit and requested meeting with the president. there will be a spray at the top of that. further guidance will be provided later today. the president will speak at cpac tomorrow. i know the president is looking forward to addressing this group of conservative committed individuals. our nation s governors are starting to gather in washington for a meeting of the national governance association. the president and first lady will welcome to governors to the white house sunday evening. the vice president and members of the cabinet will also be in attendance. while the governors are in town, they will meet with members of the cabinet, white house staff and other secretaries including kelly, price and secretary chao. the vice president will have a business session of the nga winter meeting that takes place monday morning. next week, the president will give a joint session address before both houses of congress. he s currently working
ceos of 16 major corporations global corporations, concerned that our universities, even the good ones, are not creating internationally educated citizens. even in our great universities, and i certainly teach in one, i think the level of writing skills of an lytic skills coming out of our schools is reason for concern. we believed in the task force report that some of the elements of the common core which is a disciplined or a curriculum that the national governance association really came up with, the idea that you have to be able to write based on text, to write based on fact, to be able to analyze, these are the sorts of skills that even our best students are not acquiring. speaking of the common core and some of the problems that we still face in some of the poorer communities, you grew up in birmingham in the segregated