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Little bench. at $48 a desk, you can provide a new and vastly improved learning environment for two or three students. for at little as $16, the price of a couple of movie tickets, you can lift an african student off the ground, off the floor for the first time in her life and instantly give her a dignity in the classroom that no one else in her family has ever experienced in a school. life is hard in malawi, but you dont see that on the face of the people. they are the most optimistic and harde...

Wrist open. so they locked me up, sent me to juvenile. >> when it comes to kids and punishment, the question needs to be answered, do kids, no matter what the crime, belong in adult prison? mike dempsey is in charge of the juvenile services for indiana department of correction. >> it is a complicated issue because of the fact they are still juveniles, still young, in mind and body and spirit and everything and yet they have committed some pretty serious crimes against society. the natural reacti...

Wrist open. they sent me to juvenile. >> when it comes to kids and punishment, the question needs to be answered, do kids, no matter what the crime, belong inned a duin adult prison? mike demp see is in charge of the juvenile correction. >> they are still juvenile, in mind and body and spirit and everything and yet they have committed some pretty serious crimes against society. the natural reaction, typically for a kid, going to an environment like that, they learn survival skills and its not a ...

Concerning for sure. do you have some definitive numbers? >> for instance, in one of our larger districts in the state, the day after the local judge let the law into go into effect, absenteeism went from, say, 32 hispanic students to about 300 the next day. but then within two days it had normalized and so we began again think that there was misinformation early on and students and parents didnt know exactly what was going on. but of course that section, section 28, has been enjoined now anyway...

To understand that the best way they can teach their kids is to be sourcers or mentors and have their kids be apprentices. its in that new relationship, its not student and teacher, its not test and creativity, its a mentoring/apprentice relationship between teachers and kids thats not only going to create a new learning environment, but if you think about it, it will make it sustainable. because if our teachers teach our kids as apprentices, the apprentices will then become the teachers of the ...

Principal evaluation support. take on achievement gaps and low-performing schools and get out of your way and hold you accountable but let you be innovative and creative. the amount of support and interest from the states across the country is amazing. this is really a fun time going forward to work on this in partnerships with great states and districts around the nation. >> that is excellent to hear. i want to ask you about the headline-making s.a.t. cheating sandal on long island. kids are do...

>> ted rowlands was inside the courtroom when that audio was played. ted, it was stunning to hear. i cant imagine what the reaction was like inside the courtroom where michael jacks jacksons family was attending. >> reporter: to be honest, drew, i was not inside the courtroom during that audio, but i think anybody who heard it was shocked. and the prosecutors used it for one reason, to show that dr. conrad murray knew what he was doing to michael jackson, knew the drugs he was administ...

Insure that the time we spend with that child is the most important 55 minutes they have in their entire day. >> i see so many people nodding heads. tamron are you in a head noting area. >> yes, i am. kids are coming to school hungry and having situations at home that certainly affect the learning environment. what did your school do? >> for starters, they built in an in-school health center that addressed for free all those issues like eyesight, and hunger and family problems with medical issue...

its not showing an extension of all of that terrible selling in the last couple of days. whats happening? >> for the moment, its not, christine. the europe peern markets an mar minutes ago. the markets you said in your introduction showed asian markets losing quite a bit overnight. some of those markets hitting lows we hadnt seen, in fact, since last year or even the year before that. nikkei should point out end of the day up to the tune of about a quarter of 1%. the stock market, same...

>> dan simon, living the collective dream in san francisco. cnn newsroom continues right now. >> hello, everyone, president obama is just about to land in columbus, ohio, to campaign for the jobs bill that republican leaders of congress are openly rejecting. barely 24 hours ago the president showed off his american jobs act and demanded congress pass it with, and i quote, no games, no politics, no delays. but then came the details of how the $447 billion package would be paid for. two ...