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Calculate rankings for colleges and universities. one university president says those ratings encourage, quote, bad behavior and award higher ranks to colleges that spend the most money. that university president wants to revamp those rating systems and test students before they graduate, too. hes betting part of his paycheck on student performance. he joins me now, the president of purdue university and a former politician, although when youre a university president its probably even more polit...

Grade and only 12% of the kids held back ever were able to take the test and graduate. they were kicked out with zero tolerance policies. large scales. >> my practitioners are going nuts. >> academics like this is -- >> theyre going nuts. >> actually administer the examination. >> we did interview 100 administrators in that district and teachers who told us how they were excluding kids from school. >> we have a student who is not present on the day of exam, it counts against you. i dont know how...

That we are striving for and trying to make sure that our young people are prepared. i think teacher evaluation has to include student performance. and working with a poor performing school in new york city, one of the frustrations expressed by the principal was that there was a particular set of teachers that would just say, im teaching these materials and if the students dont get it, ill going to fail them. the job of the teacher is to make sure that you are nurturing each individual student a...

North koreas newsing a si says the country has entered a state of war with south korea. pyongyang has threatened to dissolve the u.s. but they say this is not first time that the north has made such threats. she was considered one of the nations top school superintendents just a few years ago. but now she could end up in prison. a grand jury in georgia has indicted former atlanta school superintendent beverly hall and 34 other educators. they are accused of corruption and racketeering for alle...

>> steve: very nice. it was nice to finally meet your stunt double, if you ever do action stuff, you got a guy in fort myers to stand in for you. >> we are franchising the barber shop. well let you know what the name is. [ laughter ] >> brian: super cuts is taken. >> gretchen: thank you. >> brian: were spending more and more money on education. but student performance is flat. whats up with that? that sounds like an snl skit. john stossel knows why and has a plan to fix it. >> gretchen: nascar r...

>> i believe that there is a role to link student performance to how we evaluate teachers. i believe there is a role for that. >> youre working on this initiative to try to raise money, raise the sales, tax, if im not mistaken, in the city. is this mandatory prekindergarten? >> no, its voluntary. we got together a group of business leaders and education leaders to come up with a way to move the needle on education. research after research study says the biggest return on investment is in early c...

Here is its unreasonable to expect teachers who do their job well to show up as increased student performance, its depressing about our ability to improve social outcomes in education. >> that may be the case. >> i think its a little strange to address it as do we need to improve educational standards and improve the performance of schools or do we need to address childhood poverty and crime so the children are in a better position to learn? it seems clear we need to do both things. its dangerou...

Moment. lets listen to what the teachers are asking for. 13 years of experience, this make about $71,000. among the highest paid in the country. only 3% of health care costs. what theyre fighting about is they dont want to be evaluated. the average family earns 47,000. the unemployment is 10.5% and these guys are on strike. 18% of fourth graders are proficient in reading, so their results stink. 20% of eighth graders are proficient in math. >> gretchen: bad. >> brian: this is an opportunity for ...

Else should be valued. >> what im guessing rahm is betting on the thing that will resolve this, the power of the chicago parents association. >> right. >> which im guessing is supremely unhappy day three of their schoolchildren, i think theyre getting baby sat four hours a day and then let out into the, you know, to where. >> he happens to be right. teachers should be evaluated. what the unions should be doing is trying to work with them to frame the evaluation in the fairest way possible to the...

Hang out. two hours, how long a woman in illinois was stuck in the mud up to her shoulders. firefighters had to pull her out of the luckily she wasnt her. seventy-five dollars, thats how much the new britain school district in connecticut wants to fine students who play hooky. they hope this will improve student performance. finally, 315 bucks, thats how much you can pay if to feel like a champion. nike set to release this new pair of lebrons later this year. steve? >> steve: got to be kidding m...