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Correspondent carl cameron looks at bushs uncommon gop dance on common core. >> hours after announcing a political action committee to explore a presidential run, jeb bush got slammed for supporting common core education standards. >> ronald reagan ran on the platform of getting rid of the department of education. we have always ran on the platform of decentralizing education. >> reporter: while kentucky senator rand paul went after bush on the kelly file, bob jindal stirred things up at a polit...

Run for president, would you get your mothers vote? [ laughter ] >> so, yes, i will. >> education is an issue bush has long been focused on since his time as governor, and he has aggressively defended common core reading in math standards that are unpopular with many conservatives. 45 states and the district of columbia have adopted those standards and this week students in 36 of those states began taking field tests of the assessments based on the standards. the actual tests wont be given for a...

Hes going to educate us on this this morning. theres outrage on the right and now members of the left. the democratic party coming forward. >> amazing we must be doing something well to tick off both sides. i think the anger is misplaced. and i just watched your segment yesterday, and i think im sympathetic with the mom from arizona who has the first grader there who says clearly i know youre going to run through quotes to do that, but theres some frustration and theres a lot of misinformation a...

>> cant solve the problems because their problems are cultural. you have 3% of fourth graders reading at the national math standards, 47% of detroit residents are functionally illiterate. 79% of detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. they dont have a fiscal problem, steve, they have a cultural collapse. >> if we really want to solve the poverty problem, do we have to start emphasizing traditional values again, things like two parent households and a good education? lets see what the pan...

Tangled web. being woven here. bill: j. giles band, isnt it... and a battle is brewing over what your kids learn in school and governors and education commissioners from nearly every state pushing a plan to create a common core of standards for language and math and argue it will better prepare kids for college and the workforce and critics argue, to put our kids further behind students, in asia, and europe. and anita vogel is tracking down the truth. what is common core math, what is taught the...

Youid yo idiots. >> this is what we lead with. an education panel is calling for a sweeping set of changes to the nations school system. under a new proposal, math and english classes would be standardized across the country, meaning students would use the same textbooks and take the same tests. the effort is backed by the national governors association, with funding from the bill and melinda gates foundation. supporters say the plan will help send more kids to college. its the first step toward...

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