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Colleges have to adapt to the needs of the job market. >> were going to grow a group of entrepreneurs in the future, a group of people who can lead our country out of this transformational recession weve seen, then we think that we do that through changing the technology that they know, their knowledge base, and it will be done across a spectrum of people from the traditional student to the nontraditional student. >> first day of math class, i mean, im saying, i raised my hand and i said, i have...

Get my career on a start. >> reporter: emily will graduate high school with a year of classes completed toward her two-year associate degree in accounting. shell be able to work sooner, and that may allow her to continue her education at a four-year institution. the president of ctc says the colleges have to adapt to the needs of the job market. >> were going to grow a group of entrepreneurs in the future, a group of people who can lead our country out of this transformational recession weve see...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com s. were going back to it, more than likely, a lot in the hour as we wait on the attorneys to come out. attorneys were dominique strauss-kahn who we can say is the former world banker charged with trying to rape a hotel maid, former, were saying here, because dominique strauss-kahn resigned as head of international monetary fund. hes going through a hear, as we speak. we did find out that he has in fact, been indicted in this case and charged in t...

educator in chief that came out today. he provided a kind of world view, almost a historical interpretation of the causes and consequences of the arab spring. he began in the beginning with tunisia and moved forward. he tried to present a way in which he saw americas interests and values as squarely aligned with this arab revolution. he touched on the places that we dont like, the regimes we dont like that are having trouble dealing with people. tehran, damascus. he also talked about b...

Crime problems. drug problems.#)h(t&háhp &hc% kids, 15, 16 years old. he knows there is a drug trade. he knows there is a business plan. he is horrible but he sells drugges to the neighborhood, right? >> right. >> how do you compete with that kid and say i know i got a better idea for you. i dont have an academic type. you are a regular young boy, but we will keep you in school. how do you do that. >> it is for the information age. how do you connect up with what is happening with that kid in s...

Trying to reach out to moderate democrats. i dont like the compromise. but compared to the house, he looks like a tower of american legislating today. >> eric cantor has gotten away with incredible image of himself the last couple years as some person to be taken seriously on capitol hill. this is the most ludicrous act ive ever seen anybody on the hill undertake. we had a lot of fun calling boehners office asking for comment and immediately no comment, no answer, no attempt at an answer. they j...

Much information available to us, you can just stay in your little stovepipe of information and only listen to others and talk to others and reflect the views of others who think just like you, and so were not broadening our knowledge base too often by all of the information thats available. were becoming even more stuck in that segment of the knowledge base that reflects our views. >> youve been around politics and public life for some time, and youve seen george w. bush called any number of na...

Much information available to us, you can just stay in your little stovepipe of information and only listen to others and talk to others and reflect the views of others who think just like you, and so were not broadening our knowledge base too often by all of the information thats available. were becoming even more stuck in that segment of the knowledge base that reflects our views. >> youve been around politics and public life for some time, and youve seen george w. bush called any number of na...

Democrats and locked in election races that real clear politics.com race as toss-up. theyre the respective states are ten where they warn they will not manage as they have to ship out the general election ballots to overseas military voters. fox news identified four states where the races may hinge on whether the absentee balloting process works as intended on behalf of the fighting men and women abroad. >> feingolds election in 1998 was decided by fewer than 100,000 votes. this time, the polls ...

Chris, first of all, what about the economic numbers and where we stand on this economy? >> well, i think the political calculation here is this. the numbers are bad. we see the numbers and we look at these closely but when you are talking about the reality for the election, you talk about what voters understand. voters dont have to look at the numbers to know that the economy is bad. they cant sell their house. theyre afraid of losing their jop. the kids may not be able to find work and they ma...