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At the reduction of the federal support of spending, our states are absolutely cash strapped. should the governors be lobbying for more federal spending? >> look at what happened last time. you had governors like charlie crist and others who were for that stimulus money and they paid a huge political price for it. it was considered unpopular to the point where rick perry said in texas, we dont want your federal money and people were rejecting it. then it seems to me completely suicidal in a way,...

Develop this plan. >> jonathan, you and i have had a many a green room shouting match about this discussion of charter schools and im no fan of them particularly from my experience of them in new orleans, but you are extremely passionate in your defense as charters as the way forward. >> well, not as the only way forward and they are not a silver bullet or panacea, because there are many bad charter schools, but the top performing charter schools about one fifth of all charter schools not only o...

Here in new york city, half of the public schools are more than 90% black and hispanic making new york one of the most segregated school systems in the country behind only dallas and chicago. segregation may no longer be the law, but it is in so many schools the reality. back here with me are lila leff, and jonathan alter, and megan behrent, and daniel denvir and once again, jonathan and i were in a shouting match over it. and that is where i want to go because it is a passionate subject, and no...

Per year per pupil on students while wealthy and overwhelming white marian over the line spends $2,600. >> well, let me halt you there, because one of the things in the romney report is that we spend plenty omoney. and in the white page, romney says we spend plenty of money and more per pupil than many of the countries outperforming us, and the issue is not money and the liberals want to throw money at the problem, but money is not the problem. is that right or wrong? >> well, the point he makes...

Profit, and eisenhower and the railways and that was not profitable, and not an investment of government. >> this is not a small point that if in fact, you know, we look at the bain record and the value is whether or not he created profit, romney is good at it. he just is, and ak chactually v good at making money, and making profits, but that isnt in fact what government is meant to be up to. >> and in the other question, you have the unique background and does that give you special policy insig...

Are one metric for measuring progress and they measure the progress that records how you will do on the next test you take, but the grade point average and the noncognitive skills like being able to think and reflect on the learning go to college completion and higher learning, so we have to align our schools around more complicated metrics and these are not impossible things to measure, but it feels really important, and by the way, we are failing the rich kids, too, because we are not creating...

Deserve to be closed. >> but isnt that a pitting of the folks against each other in a way -- >> no, pull up the socks in the other schools and start a adopting d. >> well, they dont need to just pull up the socks. >> well, they do. they need to adopt not all, but five or ten that they can adopt and instead, they are not adopting any of them. >> and jonathan, let me make this point, you said that the top performing charters are the models and among the best. >> yes. >> and it is true, wouldnt you...

Schools in not necessarily, but the reality is when the charter schools move them out and the kips and the noble streets and the whomever are willing to have frank conversations to say, in fact, not every student makes it in thele skoos and we have strong behavioral expectations and need high parental involvement, and the great things about the schools is that because a zip code is not determined to have a bad education, these are great options, but again, what happens to the students who are pu...

absolutely. i was born in michigan, but my parents were born and grew up in india. and like a lot of immigrants, they thought they would never be able to learn their whole family history. that was lost, they thought, in the old country. but i always wondered, and so i gave professor gates the names of my immediate relatives along with a cheek swab of my dna. heres some of what he found. >> to dig even deeper, we sent sanjays cousin to hardwar, located on the ganjy river. its a place of...

And how mad would the parents be to find out that the kid gave away some of their grade point average? and i know you would havent done this, you would not have taken the grades. the fact that we have kids today that would actually accept somebody elses grades to help their own, that, i think is -- >> andrea: i was proud, i was so proud of my c-minus or maybe d-plus in a je back. youre right. i earned that d-plus. >> dana: i promise you, you would have taken it. >> greg: youre raising your hand....