to me is very exciting. i am the founder of the hybrid x team, founder of the sustainability workshop. we started off really small. i had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. i happened to be teaching math and science in this automotive vocational program in west philly and they had a go cart frame in the shop and we thought how can we turn this into a science fair project. the kids hadn t won the science fair before. we built a full size electric vehicle and they found a national competition called the tour desoul so we competed in this five day road rally from new york city to washington, d.c. that car, the sat earn we convert, we worked on for two years and refined it and it was getting over 180 miles per gallon equivalent and we won the race that year. it beat recognizable names.
good. facts didn t add up. did one jump out as dishonest? i m wondering when the elementary schoolteachers, the math teachers are going to start teaching math and saying 2 plus 2 don t equal 6. thank you. your view. i couldn t watch all of him. he was rather disgusting to me. i had to quit. any republicans around here? had a great delivery. great delivery. what did you think of ryan last night? i want to know when the democrats are going to define what fair share is since the top 1% of income earners pay 31%. 91. 91 top bracket like in the old days. we can t afford anything if we re not getting revenue. probably room in the middle between 35 and 91, but any way. oh, you want to talk.
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? we ll ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education. here on this special and in a time essay. we ll examine the roll of teachers, testing and technology and we ll ask the man who spend billions of dollars trying to fix education about how he s spending his money, microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. first, there are two nations whose students consistently rank on top of the world. south korea and finland. what is their secret? we ll take you there and show you how they get their impressive results with completely opposite approaches. let s get started. welcome to seoul, south california korea. there are many reasons to be impressed with this. ancient tiger that rose from the ashes of the civil war. but south korea s crown jewel is its education system. thanks to a militant
a country. indeed our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. let s take a look. 100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred won t graduate from high school, a total of 50 won t go to college. that s half the class that won t 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 the world in reading, 15 in science and 31st in math. what s odd is that we have been outstanding most developed countries by a long shot. in 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. highway can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it. we ll have a special ending of time essay, we ll examine the roles of teachers, testing and testing. and we ll ask the man who spent millions of dollars trying to fix education about how he s spend
100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 won t graduate from high school. a total of 50 won t go to college. that s half the class that won t 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 world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. what s odd is that we ve been outspending most developed countries by a long shot. 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? we ll ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education here on this special essay. we ll examine the role of teachers, testing and technology. and we ask the man w