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When it resumes shortly, as i said, about ten minutes from now. While we wait, more on education now as the new school year is just getting underway for many School Systems around the nation. We look at challenges facing Public Schools in a discussion on this mornings washington journal. Host guest at our desk is the director of the National School Boards Association. As we dive into the topic of local School Boards and todays education debates, first, tell us about your group and its mission. G...

To. One is theres a changing social compact between companies and the work force and companies are increasingly looking for individuals who have some important technical skill which is why Stem Education is so important. We were fortunate to see an 8. 6 increase in our enrollment of students in engineering programs and i think students are realizing that skrg these skills is important because its what employers are looking for. Were talking with james linder, the interim president of the univers...

So i think it was that quality about him. And he had the ability to bring out the best in people by trying to figure out what do you want, what are your ideas, and i think it was that capacity to reach and he servedle, president s, regardless of party. He served president nixon. He served president nixon and president ford at the u. N. , and in the months before he passed away, he had worked on a commission that george w. Bush could together on social believe that it was that capacity to reach a...

Completion happens before the student never enrolls in college. Two issues from the Texas College success or lack of success. The first is growing latino demography. There is also the case12 Public Schools where latinos comprise the majority of all Public School students. Problems not that there is a growing latino demography, the problem is the growth in High School Graduates has not translated to enrollment in colleges and universities. With black students, its slightly different but no less i...

A fellow at the strategic and International Studies and he has a myriad of books laying out his worldview and he has been a frequent guest of morning joe and his works are published in russian and english and this is similar to Foreign Affairs and also fiona hill, who is a former National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia. Really quite recently. She is head of the center of u. S. And europe at brookings and she is coauthor of a recent book called mr. Vladimir putin operative in the kre...

She reached out to me to read it, to read a draft. And since i was trying to build dress and providing feedback, found the draft fresh. I found that, you know, i certainly pushed back in some areas. I think i did. That would be contested, but what was most attractive to me was, it is just about the future of race. Often we look backward in history. It is important, but focusing on the future. Fast forward to today. We have been thinking a lot about the new center, thinking about home again and r...

About campus sexual assaults and how they are investigated and prosecuted. This week on the washington journal, we kicked off our monthlong series of interviews with University President s as part of our cspan buss Big Ten College tour. This morning joining us on the cspan bus at the campus of the university of nebraska in lincoln is the interim president dr. James linder. Thank you, sir for being with us. Let us begin with the size of the university of nebraska lincoln and also the cost. Well, ...

Better agricultural techniques throughout the state and throughout the world. And this is part of the food, fuel, and Water Initiative that i mentioned earlier. The scope of a Land Grant Institution has certainly increased. So in 1902 the Medical Center joined the system. So the activities have grown as Society Needs have increased, but we still focus on agriculture as one of the Core Missions at the university of nebraska, lincoln, and actually our agricultural programs showed the second highes...

Act and it talks about the free flow of commerce. Making sure that we take steps to safeguard commerce from injury impairments or interruption that is on the negative side. But then at the very end, the first section of the act that says it is declared to be the policy of the United States to laminate the causes of certain substantial obstruction with the free flow of commons to mitigate and eliminate encouraging the practice of collective bargaining and the procedure of collective bargaining. S...

Legalized, dont expect a scent subsidy and pay every tax imaginable. And in ten years forget about bringing your brothers or sisters because those are gone. Then if that wasnt enough 20,000 more Border Patrol agents. But its worth it what youre doing. What were doing is worth it. I want to extend another hand to the other side of the aisle to say all of those things i dont like them, but im ready to accept them because the alternative is the kind of pain that you hear that young lady. And you ha...