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Not. >> the report card five years out on newark experiment, $100 million zuckerberg experiment? >> well at best it is very mixed. >> is that a c, a c plus, what is that? >> it is probably at best a c minus. >> the book tells the story of most people abandon their commitments to this. zuckerberg and his wife seem to have learned from it and they are trying an improved approach on the west coast. >> yes. one of the things that was really most problematic about this is they tried to change the new...

The obama administration was trying to get states to do, and more of the half of the states agree is to rate students on test scores them formula they use to determine the growth of a student and attribute it to a teacher was developed by a scientist whom i interviewed for the book and he said it was never intended to do that. the formula tells you if students have grown in a subject but doesnt tell you why they grew. the teachers -- is a small part of why a student might or might not. >> the re...