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Of scandals that have occurred not just here but around the world where teachers were rewarded or penalized on the performance of their students. some in the profession say cheating was inevitable, that this is a perverse incentive. and thats why performance-related pay does not make sense when its applied to testing. in fact, an academic paper published ten years ago predicted almost exactly what appears to have happened in atlanta. "as incentives for high test scores increase, unscrupulous tea...

And struggling to feed their children. the documentary shows us the human consequences of budget cuts, the subprime mortgage crisis and hollowing out of of the american middle class. >> we need help. >> we just got an eviction notice. >> are you sleeping in your car? >> under a bridge, actually. >> i hear them sometimes saying we skipped dinner because we need to feed or kids. sometimes when i hear that, i cry. sometimes. >> for the middle class in this country, we have a one strike and youre ou...

Drones are so remote, there is still burn-out suffered by people who operate them even on safe u.s. terrain. it is not without its sort of moral residue even at home by the people who are participating in this program, and i think thats worth thinking about. >> just to go back to both davids points and katrinas, we were talking earlier about the legal at. when the legal standards for targeting american citizens are so loose, what are the standards that are being applied to nonstandards, non-citi...

Joe donally with a sizable lead over richard murdock. in wisconsin, tammy baldwin with a small lead over former republican tommy thompson. it is not just politicians on the ballot. voters will be changing laws themselves directly through hundreds of ballot initiatives with profound and far reaching consequences. in 1994, californians passed a proposition known as the three strikes law with 70% of the vote. anyone convicted of two felonies convicted of a third felony gets a sentence of 25 years t...

Of this type of exposure, and people in the gulf are experiencing them, and i honestly think based on my studies that 200,000 fig sir probably small. again, remember, 21 million people live on the gulf coast. they were exposed to an unprecedented environmental disaster. theyre going to suffer the human consequences. >> antonia, one of the things thats confusing about this, a bunch of parallel prausz processes in place. based on different kinds of classes. health effects disaggregated from econom...

Corner and theyre on the way back. >> gm would not have made a commitment to a third shift unless the money guys figured this is going to stick. >> i think the flint assembly plant and the heavy-duty trucks here are a real economic indicator of where were going. people are going back to work. companies are starting to buy pick-up trucks for their businesses. this is all great news. >> reporter: its a snapshot of a wounded corporate giant on the rebound with human consequences beyond. >> while wh...

Commd? you didnt have to kick this up to the white house or anybody like that to say, hey, were going to flood a significant portion of missouri? >> certainly we keep the vertical chain in alignment and informed on what decisions i make, but the decision in accordance with the program is, the president of the mississippi river commission. >> reporter: and thats you? >> and thats me. >> reporter: and there wasnt much time. just eight days from an alarming weather forecast to walshs worst fears co...

Forecast to walshs worst fears coming true. how did this affect you personally? >> well, certainly, i know many of the people who own land there, and been to their house, and i know them personally, and i was talking with them, and they understood the difficulty of the decision that had to be made. >> reporter: was the right decision made, and would you make it again? >> well, thats a good question, and frankly, we havent had the time to go back and look at it. >> reporter: thats because huge de...

That there are going to be long-term effects that you have not yet even encountered? what is your game plan for the health effects, for the environmental damage down the road that hasnt even been calibrated? >> well, in the process of the natural resource damage assessment process, we collectively are working as a scientific community to assess, evaluate and understand those medium and long-term consequences. in addition, bp is funding through a ten-year grant of more than half a billion dollars...

Victory lap. megyn: saddam hussein invaded kuwait and he says we have blood on our hands because children died. those of the imams feelings about this country. this is the man behind the mosque who is supposed to promote religious tolerance does that change anything for you. >> what hes saying is that the sanctions reimposed upon iraq had human consequences, that angered some people in the muslim world and understanding how our policies have affected the way -- affected the way some of radical i...