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Grants. the competition rewards states that are leading the way in education reform in these four key areas. adopting stand dards that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace. measuring or creating a system that measures student growth and reports to teachers and principals on how to improve instruction. recruiting an rewarding effective teachers and principals. and key here is turning around their lowest performing schools. 40 states and the district of columbia submitted appli...

Its the people who were teaching it who are wrong. >> reporter: mikes dad feels differently. >> its a huge disappointment. for me personally, its driven me away certainly from the catholic church per se, not away from the precepts of living a good life, but from the institution of the church. >> no, it doesnt shake my faith at all. you know, we all have our weaknesses. we all have our struggles in life. >> reporter: the vatican is certainly struggling to calm a tidal wave of abuse allegations. p...

Dollar bailout of wall street. as far as the atmospherics, youre right, cindy mccain gave a very lukewarm instruction to sarah palin, and john mccain didnt seem to be paying attention for many parts of that. when she was talking about the tea party, he was looking away, reached down into his pocket to grab his notes to go over his own remarks that were going up. nonetheless, sarah palin is holding a fund-raiser for john mccain tonight. hes going to be campaigning again for him tomorrow in mesa. ...

Benchmarking, the type of assessments so you can identify, preadequate assessments so you can identify which kids are falling behind and provide interventions early on. school districts, charters, direct-run schools that have those type of instructional approaches are highly successful. secondly, you need more instructional time on task. that means you have to take your existing schoolday and spend more time on instruction and less time on non-instructional distractions and also you have to -- >...

Question. bill: martha, we have significant developments now on the compensation for workers during september 11th. these are the people who searched for survivors, and cleaned up tons of debris from the instruction of the world trade center. thousands claim their work led to life-changing health problems and now theres an agreement, $658 million, to be paid to 10,000 workers. dr. marc siegl, member of the fox news a medical team, doctor, you were down there on september 12th. wow, they were hea...

>> i expect her to understand that many schools are going to have larger class sizes, and that in and of itself will not kill academics. the greater impact to academics will be, will be having the children have less time in class, not more time in class with more students. id choose more time in class with more students versus less time in class with less students. >> deb, how do your teachers feel about that? >> the teachers realize that we will have the same amount of hours of instruction over...

Weve researched a four-day week for two years, and the studies said that the academic achievement under a four-day week is neutral. neither positive nor negative gain. we have found theres a great increase in staff and student attendance. >> let me stop you there. how did the studies -- i just -- im trying to figure out how the studies say that, if you have an entire day that the children arent learning where normally they would be. how could that be neutral? >> well, because you keep the hours ...

Every educational issue in our country is we have a shorter school year and most of the grade programs that i know about actually extend the school year, make it longer. some of them make the day longer, so, kids are really getting intense instruction and also a lot of support from a community in the schools. so its terrible much the other thing is -- i mean, for low-income families that fifth day suddenly having to find child care, thats outrageous. so it is a terrible idea. >> what do you thin...

And thats not good for kids or instruction. >> neil: how is chopping a day off the school week better? >> well, it depends. each school district has unique conditions. for example, in denver, we dont have the conditions that you see in other parts and thats something that -- thats something that has to be carefully negotiated between all the parties involved. because at the end of the day we have to offer a living wage in a sense, while at the same time maintaining the delicate balance of recrui...

He could have been showing them instruments over here and not watching the screen as you should be there. >> wait, theres no screen to watch. these guys are looking out the window. they cleared the airplane into position and all the boy did was give takeoff clearance. we have -- the other side of this equation is you have professional pilots in the cockpit. if i had a nickel for every time i got be a instruction i didnt agree with -- >> jim, i was always under the impression the air-traffic cont...