This article presents a speech that Senator Barack Obama delivered in Thornton, Colorado, in May 2008, summarizing his education beliefs and proposals. One of the highlights of Obama's education proposal is fixing the broken promises of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). As President, he will work with the nation's governors and educators to create and use assessments that can improve achievement all across America by including the kinds of research, scientific investigation, and problem solving that children will need to compete in a 21st century knowledge economy. He contends that fixing the problems of NCLB is not an education policy on its own, but just a starting point.