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>> education is the single most important job that the human race have. >> reporter: a free non-profit site highlights what works in schools with blog, articles and videos. >> were looking for ways for students to deepen their knowledge and work with their own knowledge so they can become the authors of their own learning. >> so often you find people know their education system could be better, but theyre not always sure exactly in what way. what weve tried to do with edutopia.org is to shine a ...

He was facing in a traditional school setting. i started self-educating myself on the charter schools. >> reporter: using clips from edutopia she submitted the vision she had for a new school and won over the school board. >> this is context middle school 2011. >> so often with education, its about whats wrong, the problems in education. yet theres this force of people out there on the front lines. >> steve perry, san francisco. it has been 64 years since jackie robinson broke major league bas...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello. youre in the cnn newsroom this saturday, may 14th, im fredricka whitfield. saving two of louisianas biggest cities at the sacrifice of flooding homes and farmland. thats what will likely happen as the u.s. army corps of engineers opens the morganza spillway beginning an hour from now. while opening the gaelts would slowly divert floodwaters from baton rouge and new orleans, areas in yellow could get up to 20 feet of water, in green up to 1...