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69%, are against teachers using the standards while 14% support it and 70% dont know or refuse to answer. meanwhile, 38% of democrats oppose teachers using common core while 35% support it and a whopping 26% dont know or refuse to answer. to generalize about the american electorate, they either dont much like common core or dont really know what it is. it looks like an issue without a base of support, which usually spells political death. joined me now, randi weingarten, president of the america...

The standards while 14% support it and 70% dont know or refuse to answer. meanwhile, 38% of democrats oppose teachers using common core while 35% support it and a whopping 26% dont know or refuse to answer. to generalize about the american electorate, they either dont much like common core or dont really know what it is. it looks like an issue without a base of support, which usually spells political death. joined me now, randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers. that p...

>> the administration -- >> must publicly -- >> must publicly affirm -- >> colleges commitment to free education. >> colleges commitment to free education. >> the president has come from tuition charging colleges and he thinks that we should become like other colleges covered by normal kinds of words like sustainability. >> im here before you because the very survival of this institution is at stake. we do not have a sustainable budget. >> if you want free education, how are you going to structu...

Youre saying teachers union position on tenure is not correct and it actually misses whats in the best interest of students. they dont collide there. can you explain that? >> there are so many issues in which teachers unions and parents and liberals are in the same agenda. certainly school funding, decent salaries for children and teachers and class size. these are issues in which i think indisputably does both the teacher interest and public interest and parent interest and student interest. bu...

Students to one, master certified early childhood educator and an aide. so reducing class size. second parental engagement is a very important part. >> what about parental choice. does that help with engagement? >> i think it can. when we talk about choice, the important element, those is quality control. you know, make being sure -- >> pretty good controlling at quality. >> figuring out whats best -- >> thats one lesson in new orleans is you let parents and kids make a choice. they actually cho...

Shyamalan, author of "i got schooled," the unlikely story of how a moonlighting movie maker learned the five keys to closing ameri americas education gap. it is a weird story. nobody is expecting you to be part of education nation, what happened? >> it is odd. they think im coming at it from some art angle but it wasnt that. our foundation started getting involved in wanting to know what worked in the research for closing the achievement gap between inner city low income kids and philadelphia in...

Is ive got to run a school system in harlem or in the ninth ward in louisiana, i have to deal with the facts on the ground which is that people are poorer. what do you want me to do aside from complain about the fact that the parents dont have more money? >> the reason i wrote this book was i have a dozen chapters explaining what the research shows. what the research shows is that everything -- these so-called reformers, i call them corporate reformers because they use the business lingo. everyt...

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Passionate about giving would-be invent ors a way to get product ideas to market. >> it is human nature to invent. what stops people is to actually do that and execute on all of those ideas. it is really freaking hard. >> he is using the talent of a half million online vendors to do it. >> you are now a quirky invebtor. >> saul griffin, a winner of the coveted macarthur genius award. >> you have the idea and now you have to do it. >> theyre revolutionizing robotics and creating a whole new field...

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