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Terms of money. the matthew effect is real. matthew is true for book learning, too. can just one year so early in a childs life determine so much? joining me now to help answer that question and many more about this is the aforementioned annie murphy paul. shes backed up by matt siegel, president of ourtime.org and civil rights attorney maya riley. what should i as the parent of a fifth grader and take away, and maya the parent of a third grader, what should we take away from this piece telling ...

Do it on a test. >> this is a critically important point youre making, melissa. it want to get person. i went to inner city public school through third grade. my mother had the resources to transfer me to private school. i was at the top of my class. i was in a middle class family, two parents with graduate degrees. my father, black man, ph.d. in organic chemistry from cornell university. i was reading ready when i went to kindergarten. i was not the gap. going into that school, because we like ...

Parent trigger petition, the first in america to succeed. and what they faced from the powerful defenders of the status quo who bullied them, lied to them. the parents even caught them forging documents to stop the parents from transforming their school, all of this to defend the school where 70% of the kids graduate unable to read, write, or do basic math at grade level. that is -- if thats not a proof point that the system is designed to serve the interest of powerful adults and not kids, i do...

Nothing of the physical plant and so many of our schools are crumbling. whats your solution for denby after the kids leave for better options? >> well, i dont know denby terribly well, but i was in philadelphia and i saw a school in the innercity of philadelphia, it looked like it had been built in the last five or ten years. i think it was k through eighth grade. and i understand that the school was closed down, that 90% of the kids were not reading at grade level. so the school was unsuccessfu...

Teachers that regularly moved virtually all of their students a full grade level or more. and there were other teachers who regularly were unable to do that. my view is those that are able to do that should be able to be more highly compensated. and should also potentially become mentor teachers with additional compensation and those that are unable to do that should either develop that skill or perhaps find another path in the education world or another career all together. that will be few and...

Money came from the teachers union. its an extraordinary conflict of interest. thats something that should be address addressed. but allowing them to strike on matters such as compensation is a right that exists in this country, but i to beliedo belie person across the table is representing the public and students. not the union. >> and another issue that came out of chicago, in your view, what percentage of a teachers salary should be determined by test scores? >> dwri dont know that there i fi...

High poverty, our focus on college and career ready brings me back to one thing. we dont have kids kindergarten ready. and until we can get kids kindergarten ready and be able to read at grade level by third grade and then they need to read to learn from there on in, we havent been able to crack that. and it comes back to kind of the early childhood question. what specifically would be your solutions to get kids kindergarten ready? >> i described that we do have programs like head start. we can ...

The in glee club. i said how do you afford music teachers, art teachers, computer classes. he said i run this like a business. this isnt impossible. s as i recall, almost 90% of the students there now are reading at grade level. and its the same students. in my view, this is not a matter of saying where with can he send a lot of money. we have proven that sending a lot of money to failed schools to pay the same teachers to do the same things will not make any difference. the real key is leadersh...

>>s wiere used to the teacher talk, and they had to step back from being in control 100% of the day and constantly talking to let the students have time to talk. >> it is kids helping me out, regular kids. >> this is everyday? >> everyday. >> when they struggle and i understand the question, i explain it to them. >> at night parents are asked to sign homework proving they have participated. >> the homework was like, wait a minute, i have to look this up myself. >> reporter: success for all is no...

Education. for the last decade, this state has been on a path of reform. under the leadership of governor rick scott and local leaders, our focus every day is where the students are learning. thats it. [ cheers and applause ] today more students are reading on grade level, passing rigorous college prep courses and graduating from high school. and perhaps most exciting, those traditionally left behind are showing the greatest gains. among african-american students, florida is ranked fourth in the...