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Brazil is a country in which to drop operation high school is roughly fifty percent of those who finish house high school about ten percent learned the basics in portuguese and math so. an even access to high quality education is the worst problem we have as a country. cloud has four children himself and wants to make education accessible for all with his digital learning programs thats why he founded geeky a digital platform that has already been used by millions of pupils in brazil. the lesson...

Math so. an even artist a high quality education is the worst problem we have as a country. cloud has four children himself and wants to make education accessible for all with his digital learning programs thats why he founded geeky a digital platform that has already been used by millions of pupils in brazil. the lessons are presented in a more exciting and entertaining way than in classrooms. so every pupil can test his or her performance. and access costs no more than ten or two euros fifty p...

Intelligence applying to a location its a its a very unique so we are constantly. fighting for resources and talent against it like google microsoft facebook not only in brazil or from overseas. so sakhi is angry about all the poverty he sees every day in brazil latin americas largest country is actually rich in resources but they are equally distributed poverty equals poor education equals a lack of opportunities for many brazilians thats reality we are never going to be able to be competitive ...

Both side rz unhappy. mike, thank you. president obama making good on his promise to expand early childhood education. announcing a investment in learning programs for toddlers and babies and preschoolers. the president took part in a summit in the white house. 500 million will go to 40 states to expand head start and child care programs. >> republicans weeks away from taking control of the senate and installing leadership. and that means harry reid as majority leader are over. he tells the ne...

Maryland legislature, because, because of governor omalleys leadership, you are helping to make sure that we are raising more peoples wages with the push to raise your minimum wage right here in maryland. and we are very proud to see that happen. i hope that governor omalley is going to sign it into law soon, give maryland a raise. that is good work. but the main focus here is to guarantee that every young person has access to a world class education. every single student, and that starts before...

Washington elementary school and visited a pre-kindergarten classroom. >> and this is part of the reason why were here today, that education has to start at the earliest possible ages. so this budget expands access to the kind of high quality preschool and other learning programs to give all of our children the same kinds of opportunities that those wonderful children that we just saw are getting right here at powell. >> how wonderful? well, the presidents budget seeks to pump $68.6 billion in d...

So again, it impacts men as well as women. and, you know, money and power tend to go together. so when women are still earning 77 cents to a mans dollar, women dont have the political power. but let me say this. women, however, have the power of the purse. we need to use it. we buy 85% of the consumer goods and products that are sold. so therefore, if we would be massing our strength, and thats one of the things that we teach people in our take the lead learning programs. its about how to use th...

Commitment to americas school system. agreeing to donate $750 million toward digital learning programs. we understand that companies are giving away free internet access, ipads, laptops, giving all of this to schools. and the fcc is doing its part. doubling its commitment. could be a big difference. lets take a look at what is trending. the numbers are in. super bowl xlviii was the most-watched show in television history. a record 111.5 million viewers tuned into the big game. that topped the ...

As part of the budget deal the president and democrats hashed out with republicans there will be some changes in various education programs. for example, new summer pell grant programs will be ended. 19 literacy technology and small learning programs, eliminated. theres one smaller addition, a voucher program for the district of columbia, thats going to be restored. but big picture, all of this was really tinkering on the edges and now, the real fight begins. the president and congressional repu...

>> shannon: what about the folks who will say there are a lot of good things out there that involve the corporation for public broadcasting, big bird and learning programs for kids. they will say why would you want to take money away from from that? >> they need to survivor on their own. in these days of trillion dollar obama annual deficit we need to stop the way washington does business. we have to change the culture of washington. nbr has good products and many i like. they can survive on the...