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Was a well timed act, and pat is right: the dominant force in america is none of the above. the desire for change is huge. the desire for compromise and conciliation, to resolve our first school problems is all pervasive. people want change. they want alternatives. they are sick and tired of the status quo the. >> why would they go back to a name, clinton, or a name, public, that was in the news for the last 20 years? >> because hillary clinton over the years has really gotten a positive image. ...

Do you think parents can really take on that responsibility of making sure their kids do better in school? are they equipped? >> listen, we are not talking dark dash im not expecting these kids to write the magna cart tafplt abcs, 1, 2, 3s, i think every parent can just about do that. we have class force parents. we have after school problems if kids are having problems. we have tutoring problems, we have everything youd ever ask for except for parents that are engaged and involved. if a parent ...

What we need is a broad set of measures where your peer teachers, the feedback from students, evaluation of your video, of your classroom activities, all these things need to be brought together to build a personnel system. >> if the remedies arent greater accountability and more emphasis on merit for good teachers and dismissal for bad teachers and tests, what should we do? >> well, the biggest problem we have in american education is the fact that so many children live in desperate poverty. mo...

>> were not an organization that says that testing data alone is what is the measure of teaching excellence. what we need is a broad set of measures where your peer teachers, the feedback from students, evaluation of your video, of your classroom activities, all these things need to be brought together to build a personnel system. >> if the remedies arent greater accountability and more emphasis on merit for good teachers and dismissal for bad teachers and tests, what should we do? >> well, the ...

in 2007 we spent over $10,000 per student. versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education. here on this special and in a time essay. well examine the roll of teachers, testing and technology and well ask the man who spend billions of dollars trying to fix education about how hes spending his money, microsoft founder and philanthropist, ...

a country. indeed our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. lets take a look. 100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred wont graduate from high school, a total of 50 wont go to college. thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attends college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in...

100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. a total of 50 wont go to college. thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the wor...

what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. a total of 50 wont go to college. thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at ...

take a rough look. 100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 28 of that 500 wont graduate. a total of 50 wont go to college, so that is half of the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will at the end college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading and 23rd in science and 31st in math. ove...

Very crude number to whack at defense. and that is bad policy. the other thing is, we really ought to be doing is looking at what is driving our fundamental deficit problem. medium term, long term, everyone knows it is the big entitlement programs and they are growing as unsustainable rate. >>neil: can you address any or even part of that ahead of the november 23rd deadline? >>guest: it certainly is possible, and i sendly hope we will, we will not have made significant progress on our goal unles...