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Democracy is how it works. yeah. >> there was some give and at the same time the teachers get a three-year deal guaranteed. thats a 7% pay increase. there is no merit pay, as you pointed out. but there will be teacher evaluations, which at least 30% will be based on standardized testing, something the union did not want. >> mayor rahm emanuel ending his media silence now? >> yes. he hen been taking questions or faced the media since thursday. hes held no media events over five days, with the exp...

There signs progress is made? >> reporter: tamron, this was the first day we heard optimistic words from both sides as they went into the talks a little more than four hours ago. the union president said out of scale of 1 to 10, she rated the chances of an agreement today at a 9. both sides, the city side, the school board side said unless things go absolutely nutsy, they would have a deal. apparently there was a great deal of progress made yesterday in talks that ended around midnight. they say...

Months of negotiating the union and the school district failed to reach a midnight deadline on a new contract. at issue, everything from pay raises to class size to the role of standardized testing. >> im not an expert on such things, but i would guess teachers going on strike at the beginning of the school year probably not a good pr move for teachers. sorry. sorry. its not going to work out well for them, willie. >> i was in chicago over the weekend. this is a huge story there, obviously. a fr...

major spike in cases of west nile virus. health officials say it is the biggest rise since 2004. so far weve seen 240 cases across the country with four deaths. the cdc says the cases have been in texas, mississippi and oklahoma. august is traditionally the peek month for wes nile. the virus is carried by mosquitos. to colorado now, where the university of colorado has hired an independent investigator to probe the schools handling of colorado theater shooting suspect james holmes. hol...

Hurt their precious self-esteem. but it is also due to the emphasis on standardized tests. students are not given a chance to think. and im sorry, buts a lot of that falls on george w. bush and the no child left behind. >> nice try. >> thank you. i think i succeeded. >> not so sure. >> blame bush for everything. >> thats when i do. >> you are on a roll. >> thats true though, right? >> bush started standardized test ?g. >> no, no child left behind. >> standardized testing is the disease. we can t...

>> he thinks that teachers should be measured on their students test scores. i think this is profoundly wrong. what hell discover is that many teachers will be fired. test scores may go up, but students wont be better educated. >> were going to send more money, more resources. >> ravitch used to be a big fan of testing, supporting the no child left behind measure passed by president bush who made it the law of the land. after a decade of tests, ravitch has changed her tune. >> i thought, im wron...

Educated. >> were going to send more money, more resources. >> ravitch used to be a big fan of testing, supporting the no child left behind measure passed by president bush. which made testing the law of the land. after a decade of tests, ravitch has changed her tune. >> i thought, im wrong. and that shocked a lot of people. ♪ >> ravitch notes that their importance has led test obsessed school districts to cut programs like the arts that foster real creative. >> ive seen many articles of how a...

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...