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We really do believe four score and seven years ago thomas jefferson said all men were created equal. but oops, he owned other human beings. so this is the 2.0 version. the version were still using. on the first anniversary of 9/11, thats what was read outloud, the only english words besides the sad list of the dead. and then at the school, the greenwood school, these kids with learning differences, like dyslexia, adhd, a whole alphabet soup of stuff, for 35 years the school has said you need to...

I was a bad test taker. >> they got it reversed. >> i think joanne is a little worried about you. >> just a little. >> is this a generational thing or is this just -- i dont know. >> i think part of the problem in school today people dont memorize anything. >> true. >> you say mercury, venus, earth, mars. how do you remember that? you had to meme -- memorize it. memorizing is bad. the children are simply wasting their time. they are not thinking creatively and this and that. memorization is very...

To lift expectations in the hopes of stemming that slide, but not everyone agrees theres this crisis in our public schools. diane ravitch, one of americas leading education historians, she says the real crisis in american schools is poverty. she says teachers have been demonized and common core is not the answer. >> common core is harder, but nobody knows if its better. ten solid years of tests, tests, tests, and arne duncans strategies have not worked. when you see tenures in which there is sta...

Ive worked with education with newt gingrich. we dont great with anything, we dont agree on the westerly, but we dealt with that. your father, meghan, in 04 bush got 40% of the latino vote, your father 31% of the latino, down to 27%. mean just -- i dont understand why this hostility and this denial of the changing demographics of this country. >> all you have to say is i grew up in politician. my dad ran for the first time when i was 14 years old. i groo you to love politics, hearing him talking...

Pre-existing conditions. all of which we know, and knew that werent true. and look, if all we did was try to keep mitt romney from walking away from his positions and keeping him honest tonight, it would be a full-time job, but its part of what the president will do. >> i want to talk to you as someone who used to work in the white house, as you did. theres no one i know who has worked with the president in the white house thinks that presidential debates reveal presidential skills. presidential...

My sense is you have to see the politicians come together including the republicans to drive the issue forward. when you look at the numbers, its not sustainable right now. >> lets talk about the public school system for a minute. how well are public schools -- how good of a job are they doing to prepare students for the modern work force? it seems like they were designed when we were a manufacturing-based economy and the most important thing kids could learn was discipline, obey orders, memoriz...

>> well, part of the problem that the challenger has in this instance is we already have a sense of the president as president. the challenger has to come across as presidential in a moment in which hes being pushed to do something dramatic and powerful. i think always the problem of, for governor romney in those moments, has been a tendency to try too hard. thats why i think people are saying relax, calm down, take it easy. youre in the going to do it all at once if you do it youre going to bui...

The voices that they need. and so what you saw last night was a speech that, in terms of chris christie, not ann romneys speech, was a speech that just tried to tear down. was a speech that was full of anger and not full of answers. but at the end of the day, whats happened in american education is that we have the best scores weve ever had. yet it cant be about memorization anymore. it has to be about how we help all kids get to the quality instruction they need so they can be -- have the choic...

plumbers. all kidding aside, its not the same job requirement. so, its totally legitimate for the president to point this out. >> this comes as a new ad from president obama highlights the, quote, real people who were affected by bain capital, that private equity company that mitt romney ran for 15 years. take a look at that ad. >> makes me angry. those guys were all rich. they all had more money that theyll ever spend, yet they didnt have the money to take care of the very people that...

Voracious and focused on the sci-tech field. we did a survey a few years ago which for middle and high school students 4 in 10 say they would be very unhappy in a job that requires a lot of math. that says a lot about the way we teach math and our perspective. we really need to get geared up to focus on these issues. >> thats what you get when you go from a culture of memorization to a culture of experimentation because experiments are fun. memorization is not. jonathan, go ahead. >> in the pres...