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Path to excellence. >> 13-year-old eric hall is in the seventh grade at orchard gardens, one of bostons poorest performing schools. he says hes seen a lot since he started there in kindergarten. >> ive seen different teachers, different principals. ive seen students come and go. >> reporter: but this year is different. >> now its gym, writing, reading, math, pretty much -- im pretty much enjoying all of my classes. >> reporter: thats because orchard gardens is one of 5,000 schools around the cou...

Justin cohen works to improve failing schools. he calls botts goals ambitious and cautions against declaring early victory. >> what happens is schools that have achieved fragile gains can often slide back into underperformance once either resources are taken away or attention is distracted. >> reporter: he says theres more at stake. >> what i worry about with school turnaround is we -- we hit a plateau or we increase student scores to some extent, but they are still performing well below their p...

A crisis in american education. the race is on to transform terrible schools into top performers. president obama is taking drastic steps. his administration shelling out millions to fix the countrys worst schools. cnns suzanne malveaux visited a school in boston thats receiving some of that money. officials there say their once troubled school is now on the path to excellence. >> 13-year-old eric hall is in the seventh grade at orchard gardens, one of bostons poorest performing schools. he says...

uncovered video from one family as they run for their lives, in their own words. large tornado, guys. large tornado. >> caught on camera. funnel clouds bearing down on the midwest. the damage is heavy, and theres more to come with tornado warnings in effect as we go on the air tonight. im don lemon in the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. the news starts right now. and we begin with a developing story out of libya. there may be a breakthrough in the attempt to end a nearly two-mon...

large tornado, guys. large tornado. >> caught on camera. funnel clouds bearing down on the midwest. the damage is heavy, and theres more to come with tornado warnings in effect as we go on the air tonight. im don lemon in the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. the news starts right now. and we begin with a developing story out of libya. there may be a breakthrough in the attempt to end a nearly two-month-old civil war. african leaders say moammar gadhafi has agreed in principal to a ...

Beyond test scores. >> the behavior is night and day. i spent the first week of school teaching them how to walk in and out of the class loom. >> eric hall things his school is doing something right. >> i thought it was going to be headaches every day, but its been fun. >> reporting in america, im suzanne malveaux. >> and how can america compete if our kids dont learn the skills nay need? soledad obrien is going to be examining our public schools in her special "dont fail me, education in americ...

cooperation i hope we have going forward because this is what america is all about. >> lincoln, of course, being one of obamas main heroes. now, cnn congressional correspondent dana bash joins me live. after all that drama, do we actually know where the cuts are coming? >> we know generally where the cuts are coming from. and from the perspective of the democrats, theyre not coming from the position they were most worried ut, at least for the most part. they were most worried about the...

done today in federal offices is figuring out who or what is essential and who or what is not. heres the one number everybody agrees on. the 8th. that is the deadline. friday. tomorrow. the latest in a series of stop-gap spending bills expires at midnight tomorrow. the house will vote today on a one-week extension that republicans have push for days now and democrats continue to dismiss. it would couple $12 billion in immediate cuts with six months of funding for the pentagon. thats wh...

dear president obama, stop this unjust war. moammar gadhafi appeals directly to the president for an end to the military campaign in a rambling three-page letter. the white house is not impressed. flames heading toward homes. fire crews put to the test in the countrys midsection on this "american morning." welcome. thanks so much for being with us on this thursday, april 7th. a lot to get to this morning on "american morning." a lot of fears that congress will not reach a deal in t...

and good morning, america. an incredible story unfolding at that nuclear plant. the workers pulled out overnight, because of radiation levels. and theyre standing by to go back in at this very hour, likely exposing themselves to so much more radiation. >> just to give a sense of how much risk they are facing, back to the chernobyl disaster. almost 50 of the workers there sacrificed their lives. more than 100 had radiation illness. since you all went to sleep, heres what happened. a new...