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Tell you a lot of the details about the first amendment. we dont need to turn these people into experts on constitutional law, but i think we can do a better job of giving them some explanation of the contours of these fundamental rights like we have thanks to the first amendment and the incredibly important role it plays in our democracy. >> john, thanks for the work. it was very interesting. we appreciate it. >> appreciate the opportunity to be on with you. heres more now of what youre sayin...

Argument. i mean, even this week in the newspapers there has been stories about how the big colleges, especially ivy leagues are giving more preference to international students because they want to claim that they are preparing the global leaders of the future. >> they want full out of state tuition. >> yeah. when it comes to race, because there is a history of discrimination specific against blacks and hispanics, then people say if you dont have that history, should you be entitled to preferen...

Test so suddenly if youre a parent you say "what is going on here?" and so you see a huge shift between -- from "i want high standards for my kids, i want them to know what they need to know for life, for college, for citizenship, for career," but this became testing. so i would call this -- it is -- what common core has become is common testing. its no longer about curriculum or standards. >> and there is a rebellion brewing against standardized testing. that polling shows it. but you look at t...

Reresetrere reached out to the board of education and havent heard back yet. if they want to come on letter, well put them on. did the co-pilot spike his captains drink what we just learned. its the story thats going viral. you have a fourth grader who is not afraid to take on standardized testing. >> put a stop to all the standardized testing. thank you so much for your time. >> that nine-year-old here live. happy birthday to christian stewart. >> your eyes change color. you never even drin...

Well debate it. its a story thats going viral. a fourth grader is not afraid to take on standardized testing. >> parents and students, put a stop to all the standardized testing. thank you so much for your time. >> she got a standing round of applause. he joins us live, that nine-year-old does next. ♪ stay away ♪ and why stop what youre doing to find a bathroom? with cialis for daily use, you dont have to plan around either. its the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction ...

Students were given correct answers to state-wide skills tests, investigators say educators even held cheating parties, where incorrect answers were erased and corrected. the cheating may date back to early 2001 when scores on statewide skills tests began to turn around. my goodness. that really defeats the purpose of the standardized testing. its supposed to gauge where the schools are. and see which schools are troubled and to infuse more resources into those. >> chris and i are children of ...

Basically, what weve done is weve created a teaching job that is not that attractive to the sort of people we say we want to be teachers. we say we want the most ambitious college graduates who have options to go into any other career, to teach. but then, basically, what weve done is weve created a system thats very based on standardized testing, that doesnt offer teachers a lot of leadership, doesnt offer them a lot of creativity. the amazing thing to me, when i was reporting my book, is how ma...

>> theyre very hard! its very hard to teach in a really underresourced and in a community thats struggling with all sorts of issues. what do you think about the broader idea, that essentially the things standing between us and education, nirvana, are the bad teachers and how hard it is to fire bad teachers? >> its a really faulty idea. basically, what weve done is created a teaching job that is not that attractive to the sort of people we want to be teachers. we say we want the most ambitious co...

Broader idea, that essentially the things standing between us and education, nirvana, are the bad teachers and how hard it is to fire bad teachers? >> its a really faulty idea. basically, what weve done is created a teaching job that is not that attractive to the sort of people we want to be teachers. we say we want the most ambitious college graduates who have options to go into any other career to teach. but then, basically, what weve done is weve created a system thats very based on standardi...

System, how we limit students and students are ready for challenges and advancement and we limit them by the use of these tests without looking at a who are ho wholistic understanding of that child. >> in schools, we learn how to take a test and we take the test. and then depending how go, we feel really stupid or really smart. this is what you write about. you say, with all this reevaluae have little time left for inspiration, little time left to explore the full range of possible roles in life...