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Teachers in a row and the average child would be 2 1/2 to 3 grade levels ahead. we need to clone those teachers, put them in real leadership positions to help them share their knowledge. great teachers, great principals, talent matters tremendously in education. so whats happening to americas schools? don lemon takes a look in a cnn special report, fixing americas schools, tonight at 6:00 eastern time. be sure to join us for "fixing americas schools," only on cnn. what the president and firs...

Education. they need to do a better job of preparing teachers to come into education, more practice, less theory, more hands on experience, but we have to do a much, much better job of helping teachers being successful and rewarding success. we have been scared to talk about excellence. great teachers make a huge difference in students lives. every kind of -- every kind of study shows three great teachers in a row and that average child will be a year and a half to two grade levels ahead, three ...

19:25 on the east coke. eric holder said osama bin laden will never be tried in u.s. courts because he believes the terror mastermind wont be captured but killed. holder made the comments to lawmakers tuesday while defending the administrations decision to try some terror suspects in civilian courts. >> granting osama bin laden the right to appear in a u.s. courtroom, you are clothing him with the protections want u.s. constitution. >> you are talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. ...

Heads and it didnt go over well, and the board unanimously overturned that... bill: christmas was taken out, and then it was put back in? >> yes. yes. it was, it was put back in and there are a number of other examples and the professor served on the review panel and can explain those things but, obviously, it wasnt something that was agreed with, by the people of texas or the state board of education. who reversed that decision, in the first go-around here. bill: let me get the professor on tha...

Teachers credit for moving kids up. they get credit moving them to or above grade level. the teacher -- because of their position, the obama administration as well too often puts priority on not how well the student is doing, value added or just objective outcomes, what theyre putting an emphasis on, how long the teacher has been in the classroom. for example, going back to the job fund, last in, first out policies and instead of safing, all right, ive have a teacher moving children up a grade o...

Year to improve their practice and if they dont, then they will also be subject to termination. so i think one of the sort of flags along the wake the mile post people are looking at is what is going to happen to the 750 educators. >> now, another thing for parents and citizens here in d.c. to look at is the expanded use of standardized tests in evaluating teachers. initially you in the lower grades, you wanted to expand them to other fields and to all the grades eventually from k to 12. >> that...

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