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Last month in windsor where the court said the federal government could not single out gay couples for stigma and disadvantage. after the ruling, two arkansas couples went to their clerks office and asked for a marriage license and they made sure they got turned down. rita jurnagen, the taller one, retired from the little rock schools after teaching math for almost 30 years. facing the very concrete nuts and bolts reality, that because she lives in arkansas, she cannot leave her retirement pay t...

Good. facts didnt add up. >> did one jump out as dishonest? >> im wondering when the elementary schoolteachers, the math teachers are going to start teaching math and saying 2 plus 2 dont equal 6. >> thank you. your view. >> i couldnt 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...

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...

>> look at this thing. >> this is the inspire. ti inspire. so what youre looking at is a full-color screen. kids can do side by side graphing, download stuff. this will start with kids in middle school. lit take them all the way through college. this is the only one you need. you never have to make another investment. lets talk about going to school and how kids dress. this is cabbage patch. these are fashionalities. our preppy girl. really cute. dresses that way. skating girl. artsy girl. like ...

those closed doors in that meeting with sarkozy and merkel. sure enough, the greek prime minister has done this 180 with regard to his stance on the bailout deal. tell me about it. >> reporter: i think hes done a 360. let me tell you. this time yesterday, the meeting was underway. between sarkozy and merkel from france and germany. on this deal to fix the european economic system, greece might even get kicked out of the euro zone. this all happened late last night. we spent the morning...

there through, of their suffering. he posted a message on youtube, a part of the it gets better project. even if his sadness, jamie was reaching out to help others. this is jamie rodemeyer in his own words. >> hello. this is jamie from buffalo, new york. im just here to tell you that it does get better. here is a little bit of my story. december 2010 i thought i was bi, and then i always got made fun of because i virtually have no guy friends. and i only have friends that are girls. an...