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The one thing that is necessary to educate american children? what do you have to have? >> you have to have an incredibly passionate dedicated smart teacher in front of every single kid. it sounds like a simple and pat answer but it is not because right now we have a system that allows for years and years to go on where a kid can be five years old that isnt taught to read. 7 years old, isnt taught to read. >> the teach hes have to be passionate and confront the children if they are not doing the...

To narrow it down for me. the one thing that is necessary to educate american children? what do you have to have? >> you have to have an incredibly passionate dedicated smart teacher in front of every single kid. it sounds like a simple and pat answer but it is not because right now we have a system that allows for years and years to go on where a kid can be five years old that isnt taught to read. 7 years old, isnt taught to read. >> the teach hes have to be passionate and confront the children...

That our congress has dropped an entire grade level in the quality of their writing and production from 11th grade status to 10th grade status. our monday nerdy mega panelists here, all that i can confirm are at the 11th grade level. this is made for us, obviously, and it was self-serving in a sense because of the systematic indictment of the set at this point is not any grand secret. once you get past the comedy, though, tim, the implications of weaker decision making, poorer business practices...

Children were laughing at her. >> reporter: kristina contacted the principal to complain about the award. >> and she blew me off and said that it was a joke that was played -- that the teachers joke around with the children. >> reporter: i headed to cassandras school, desert springs acadeacademy, for an explanation. the principal said she wouldnt comment. i asked if she thought it was okay for teachers to hand out catastrophe awards. she shrugged her shoulders and then she blew me off. >> as a p...

>> reporter: christina contacted the principal to complain about the award. >> and she blew me off and said that it was a joke that was played -- that the teachers joke around with the children. >> reporter: i headed to cassandras school, desert springs academy, for an plaex nation. the principal said she wouldnt comment. i asked if she thought it was okay for teachers to hand out catastrophe awards. she shrugged her shoulders, and then she blew me off. as a parent, what do you think about that ...

People train politicians to speak in sound bites essentially, but with not just youtube i think, but also twitter and you know, so many things out there, are they just really trying to make it so they have a better chance of getting on cable news or in a youtube clip? >> i think its a combination of two things. thats one dynamic. but youre dealing with pretty complex ideas that youre trying to communicate and taking these ideas and communicating them in a complex way is probably not a successful...

Capability. whether this is a glitch that they failed to conceal from the iaea or not, if they have the opportunity at some other facility, that the iaea and the united states dont know byou can bet they will try to enrich to respects grade level. thats the nature of the program. it hasnt change in the recent negotiation t. hasnt changed because of sanctions. it is not going to change because iran, in this regime is determined to get nuclear weapons. >> what do you make of the fact that the stat...

Capability. whether this is a glitch that they failed to conceal from the iaea or not, if they have the opportunity at some other facility, that the iaea and the united states dont know byou can bet they will try to enrich to respects grade level. thats the nature of the program. it hasnt change in the recent negotiation t. hasnt changed because of sanctions. it is not going to change because iran, in this regime is determined to get nuclear weapons. >> what do you make of the fact that the stat...

>> reporter: congress may be getting dumber. at least thats the way it sounds. a new study finds that congress has gone from speaking collectively at an 11th grade level to now only a 10th grade level. and for some in congress, it gets even uglier. a mathematical formula calculated final grades for all members based on sentence structure and word choice. here are the worst offenders. from the house, south carolina representative mick mulvaney who only speaks at a seventh grade level and kentucky...

Investment to say focus on teacher assessment. >> but the -- right, but the nuance has always been on, okay. what do you do when you grade a student here? do you grade -- have they moved up from -- from one reading level to another reading level or are they on a fourth grade reading level? see what i mean? sometimes teachers -- this is where i think the nuance of the argument gets lost, which is, are you grading a teachers merit pay based on, is the student reading at a specific grade level that...