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Speak, and that person ended up becoming a team manager. there were ways the coaches who were allegedly in on all of this were able to move the students around and figure out ways to get that responsibility of actually playing soccer or whatever the sport may have been away from them but yet keep them in that school. >> let me go over to you, peter, on this discussion here. what does this say to you, this whole story, about the college admissions system and how it functions in this country right...

>> new satellite images taken two days after the vietnam summit failed show activity in a north korean launch pad, according to two washington think tanks. cranes and new construction appear at the launch site where north korea has put satellites into space using technology similar to that needed for ballistic missiles. this north korean launchpad have been dormant since august, following the first summit between president trump and kim jong un. north korea has never launched an intercontinental...

Escape from his gang-riddled neighborhood. but just last year, he was killed by a gunshot to the head. >> people talk town about chicago, but theres still some good thats still here. principal richard smith attributes the success to test prep and programs tailored to meet the students needs. >> they believe they can be successful and they believe they can put away all the negative images or the perceptions that people have on of finger high school students. >> success that has seniors beam, conf...

Accountability device that model or is it flawed or the actual implementation? >> the model is flawed. you will not find any prep school, any private school in the state of new york or in any state that uses this model. they trust teachers to judge their students. >> they have such a different student body. >> it doesnt matter. youre not helping poor kids when you put so much emphasis on the test, they lose arts, physical education and recess and they lose almost everything except test prep and ...

To mirror some kind of body of knowledge. what do you think about that? >> about the common core? >> the mirror in between the two. >> you know, i think its a back door way of sort of having, you know, an external control mechanism over our schools. i mean, if you aline the s.a.t. to common core, youre going to force high schools to really adhere to the common core -- >> its like the back door curricular power. if the s.a.t. says you have to know this thing, doesnt matter what your local school ...

An essay that nonetheless is factually incorrect. that needs to be fixed and clearly is going to be. but the s.a.t. maintains this test is biased, in favor of students from wealthier families. wealthy kids can take some expensive prep classes, if not private tutoring, take the test multiple times. do you think this is going to level out the playing field, all these changes? >> i think these are important steps towards a test that will help with those issues. is it perfect? i dont think so. i thi...

College boards kaplans existence, the college board told the world that test prep didnt work. now suddenly test prep is so effective we should provide it free for everybody. my perspective, it will establish s.a.t. prep as a norm and i also think that families will continue to look for an edge. >> okay. heres the thing. i would like you to answer the paradox of test prep. >> sure. >> which is that if everybody takes test prep, nobody benefits from test prep. hold that thought. i want you to them...

Does that -- >> i think, one, it will make lower income communities more equal. it also is going to save freshman writing teachers a lot of time of deprogramming students from thinking that they have to use all those big words in essays. >> go back to the first part of what you said. why is it that you think thats going to make it easier for low-income students? >> well, i think the main reason is simply, again, test prep. that the way test prep worked is they used to teach just by rote all of t...

Prepare in this transition, before kids have the ability, before teachers have had the ability to adjust to it. and so, this is both a calamity of the test prep and the testing culture that seems to be besieging our country. >> yeah, well, one step forward for the s.a.t.s. >> exactly. >> thank you so much, randi weingarten. >> thank you so much. to another college controversy now. many rutgers university faculty members are trying to stop former secretary of state condoleezza rice from deliver...

I worry though that you know, just offering the test prep is a tiny piece of the problem because so much of this is what you do with that. right now they are already free test prep classes and the question is how do you get kids to be motivated. how do you get them to want to study hard. >> you talk about race explicitly. but you actually weigh in on race in the context of this very issue of the s.a.t.s, overall asian americans are above average, including a 63-point edge above whites. when you ...