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Three questions in one. first of all, the timeline for reforms, i think that i can safely say the american investors who wish to invest in italy but italian investors as well finally have a labor market that is more flexible. this has been achieved. lets say we have done this. then they have an institutional system, the taxation system public instruction in the next six months, everything, all of this reform will be done. what needs to be made absolutely clear is even if italy and many want to s...

Committed a serious murder and was convicted of that by a jury of his peers. >> reporter: what did you think of the jury not coming up with the -- coming up -- >> i respect the jury system as i said. thats their decision based on what they do in the privacy of deliberations. he was convicted of first-degree murder, a brutal murder of odin lloyd. >> reporter: how important do you think robert krafts testimony was? >> i think every piece of the testimony put together a strong case for conviction. ...

4-year-old -- for her 4-month-old son. she wanted to know how he was going to do on a continuum. it is natural for parents to want to know how their kids are doing. and as for the diagnostic nature of these tests and the amount of information that is gleaned from them, school districts report to us all the time that they design curriculum around the results of these tests. i agree with diane. there is no such thing as a perfect test. absolutely not. but the ability to glean information from thes...

Of these tests and the amount of information that is gleaned from them, school districts report to us all the time that they design curriculum around the results of these tests. i agree with diane. there is no such thing as a perfect test. absolutely not. but the ability to glean information from these tests and use them in direct ways to inform instruction and curriculum in classrooms is actually really important. >> okay, so let me ask you this, is this -- the problem here, one of conception o...

Tool that is used to inform instruction and curriculum development throughout the date. new york state spends $354 billion a year on educating 3.2 million schoolchildren. for $54 billion a year i think new yorkers deserve a snapshot of how our kids are doing. hour our schools are doing. how our systems are doing. there is an important data point -- >> i want to point out something. that was interestingly nonresponsive to what she said. she said this does not fork for the chime or tool. you said ...

When we were kids we took an hour test to see how we did in reading, an hour test to see how we did in math. children today in third grade are taking eight hours of testing. theyre spending more time taking tests than people taking the bar exam. now, when we talk about the results of the test, they come back four to six months later. the kids already have a different teacher and all they get is a score and ranking. the teachers cant see the item analysis or what they got wrong. theyre getting no...

Story. amir, who now has through some grace of government there, he has the ability to tell us what happened. he told us that for that week. he was given this instruction to do a video just to confess, that you are a spy. he was given a lot of threats that if he did not comply you that harm may come to him or his family. and the biggest thing was he didnt want harm to come to his family. >> when is the last time amir called home or able to talk to his family? >> he has actually been able to call...

4-month-old son. she wanted to know how he was going to doen a continuum. it is natural for parents to want to know how their kids are doing. and as for the diagnostic nature of these tests and the amount of information that is gleaned from them school districts report to us all the time that they design curriculum around the results of these tests. i agree with diane. there is no such thing as a perfect test. absolutely not. but the ability to green information from these tests and use them in ...

Story. amir, who now has through some grace of government there, he has the ability to tell us what happened. he told us that for that week. he was given this instruction to do a video just to confess, that you are a spy. he was given a lot of threats that if comply you that harm may come to him or his family. and the biggest thing was he didnt want harm to come to his family. >> when is the last time amir called home or able to talk to his family? >> he has actually been able to call for a few ...

People? >> an easy way to engage them sometimes is through the autograph. thats the first ice breaker. just see a kid theyre face open up and see a big smile. if you do that once, you will want to try to influence their lives in a positive sense. you have to make a connection. >> you influenced by daughter sallys life. i dont know if you remember. it was about ten years ago. you came on this show you were talking about playing catch with kids. sally had never caught the ball in a glove. we pract...