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good morning, everyone. im deborah feyerick. search crews are out looking for more than a dozen people after a cruise ship ran aground, killing three. well take to you italy for the latest. plus mitt romney digs in his pocket and hands over some cash to a woman he doesnt know. well tell you why and hear what the woman has to say. we start with the rescue from that italian cruise ship sitting on its side right now. there are as many as 17 people still missing. one who isnt missing a...

This there were only five or six meters near the water. you could fall down. i saw people falling down heading their head, bloody and people getting panic attacks. it was a nightmare. >> heather: were there any type of instructions going on? were there anyone in authority telling you where to go and what to do coming over the speakers on the ship? >> no information. no explanation, nothing. it was just -- the people and normal people from dinner that work there, but it was impossible. no instruc...

Appalling pictures were released of military personnel abusing inmates. one recuring question that mr. of us have is why is it that people feel in some way compelled to engage in this kind of thing to photograph it? why do they do that? >> i dont know. a psychiatrist could probably give you a proper answer. >> is it stress? >> everybody is stressed out. that may be a reason but its not an excuse. they got lots and lots of instruction before they left the united states, while they were in the dow...

>> he thinks that teachers should be measured on their students test scores. i think this is profoundly wrong. what hell discover is that many teachers will be fired. test scores may go up, but students wont be better educated. >> were going to send more money, more resources. >> ravitch used to be a big fan of testing, supporting the no child left behind measure passed by president bush who made it the law of the land. after a decade of tests, ravitch has changed her tune. >> i thought, im wron...

Educated. >> were going to send more money, more resources. >> ravitch used to be a big fan of testing, supporting the no child left behind measure passed by president bush. which made testing the law of the land. after a decade of tests, ravitch has changed her tune. >> i thought, im wrong. and that shocked a lot of people. ♪ >> ravitch notes that their importance has led test obsessed school districts to cut programs like the arts that foster real creative. >> ive seen many articles of how a...

More years in the classroom than their american counterparts. after classes let up, sung-do studies for hours in a school cubicle and takes his dinner in a school cafeteria. hell sometimes go to a late night cram school known in korea as a hagwon, nocturnal schools for kids offering classes in science, math or any other subject thats covered on the big college exam. after-school instruction is very popular here, enrolling three-quarters of the nations students. the average korean family spends r...

After classes let up, sung-do studies for hours in a school cubicle and takes his dinner in a school cafeteria. hell sometimes go to a late night cram school known in korea as a hagwon, nocturnal schools for kids offering classes in science, math or any other subject thats covered on the big college exam. after-school instruction is very popular here, enrolling three-quarters of the nations students. the average korean family spends roughly 20% of their income on private tutoring. back home, sun...

in 2007 we spent over $10,000 per student. versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education. here on this special and in a time essay. well examine the roll of teachers, testing and technology and well ask the man who spend billions of dollars trying to fix education about how hes spending his money, microsoft founder and philanthropist, ...

a country. indeed our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. lets take a look. 100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred wont graduate from high school, a total of 50 wont go to college. thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attends college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in...

100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. a total of 50 wont go to college. thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the wor...