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Arts education at all. As a matter of fact people who actually read and think and write are in surprisingly short supply. I have a friend who has a business and she heard a couple of people. Her job was to write catalog and amazon product descriptions. They came out with a distinguished Marketing Program and they could not write a coherent paragraph. She was like having to rewrite them. There is a lot of demand for people who can actually read and think and write. Its significantly unmet demand ...

Reynolds. This weekend special programming on the cspan networks. Friday night native American History and on saturday a debate on independence and sunday a discussion between the court of appeals and on cspan 2. Friday at 8 p. M. , indepth with ron paul. And afterwards with William Burrows talking about the asteroid threat and another chance to see that at 9 p. M. Eastern on sunday. And on cspan 3. A movie about the apollo landing. And then a speech from johnson. And then a look at the legal di...

[applause] questions . [inaudible] s James Taranto points out that the u. S. Supreme Court Decision that essentially outlawed the use of iq tests in lieu of College Degrees to permit people who are not College Graduates to get jobs that matched up with their iqs because in some way they were racially discriminatory i believe. I dont remember the name. It had disparate impact. Disparate impact case. It strikes me that when you speak of credentialing of some sort that is in a College Diploma you m...

Think that we would be a lot more successful by now and for us they are doing it at the local level using the county stakeholders and we are very fortunate that we have the counties support to allow us to tap into these different resources but we have to replicate that acceptability in every county and in every city if it doesnt come topdown. Typically at the end of the four runs people leave more depressed than when they came. At times we have been accused of designing before in the floor in th...

Lobbiest turned around and supported the American People and passed policies that upset his former colleagues greatly. Host and gigi sohn is special council through the fcc and Gautham Nagesh and with the wall street journal. We look forward to having you back. I love the show. I will be back. Cspan created by companies 30 years ago and brought to you as a service by your local cable or satellite provider. Coming up, former graze congressman talks about his trip to iran and scott talks about edu...

Talk about a small world, though. It blows your mind. Back to your point, i arrived inat 3 30 in the morning and i think every light was on when i flew in. Was it thursday night . It may have been. Anyway every light that you can imagine was on and there wasnt a cloud in the sky so it was a great view as you arrived. We arrived and i should identify doctor here sitting in the front row and he was my guide as we landed there. One of the funny things that happened is we got off the plane and went ...

Reasons. We ask all of you to be active participants in tweeting. In toms place, let me Say Something i think he might have wanted to say about the importance of race and space and the importance of the ways in which policing have defined the spaces propriety of citizenship, in the United States of america. Ferguson brings us here. Ferguson is just a metaphor for an ongoing history that the state forces, that the white citizens that sees white citizens and class as the defining marker for the wa...

Thinking of as ron was asking you to imagine some of the challenges is the fact that this executive action does not do a lot of things. One of the things it doesnt do is provide eligibility for health care, for example, for people who are eligible overall. When you have people who are still going without Health Insurance, that becomes more of a challenge and an issue for your communities. Im wondering what the possible ways of addressing that might be and whether that does, indeed, pose a challe...

So, this is just one additional indicator we have that says that we have to make sure we get it right for our nation, because our economy is counting on the fact that we are expecting students to learn at higher levels. Thank you for your question. There are so many great things happening in implementation and so many Great Stories out there. We can look at memphis, tennessee, where teachers are incorporating literacy standards in science classes. They are reading popular articles in popular sci...

While this was 2011, i was the School Principal when the first iphone came out. I remember the frenzy at my school with parents buying cell phones. And i knew i was text messaging most of my friends. I thought, im seeing everybody here in this room using cell phones. Why is it possible we cant do a call to action right now with a phone . Teld tell me, dont use technology. Poor parents dont have access to technology. That was the first thing. The second one is because i was so close to the heart ...