Reuters - President Barack Obama insisted on Tuesday that education should be shielded from his budget-cutting battle with congressional Republicans if the United States is to compete in a global economy.<p><strong>Read more:</strong> <a class="rssreadon" rel="external" title="Obama wants education spared in budget-cut fight   (Reuters)" href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110308/pl_nm/us_obama_education" target="_blank">http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/education/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110308/pl_nm/us_obama_education</a></p>