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We have to move away from the culture of test,?xtest, test, test. you know, we know that actually your grades in school are better predictors of whats going to happen in college than what you do one day on a standardized test. but the other piece i wanted to say is something really important that they did as well is not just the connection to the khan academy, but saying to low-income kids that the costs of a college application, the college applications will be free. what were seeing is that in...

Commitments for college affordability and accessibility. some of the things would be make test prep for colleges, making that accessible to americans. and for students looking for college, it will best match them where theyll best able to graduate. theres remedial program, tutoring, mentoring and trying to throughout the summers with summer programs to bridge that gap as some students fall behind. it falls into the agenda president barack obama has laid out for this year where he talked about wa...

>> that was ethan. ethan, julie, carol, welcome to all of you. great have you here. >> an honor to be here. >> ethan, that was a powerful speech, and i appreciate the i thought incredible articulate of what ought to be the passion of every person to learn. but should there be standards, some goal so that we know how well students are doing? >> absolutely. you have to have standards. you cant just throw kids into school and hope they figure out whatever. you have to have a guideline. the problem ...

>> that was ethan. ethan, julie, carol, welcome to all of you. great have you here. >> an honor to be here. >> ethan, that was a powerful speech, and i appreciate the i thought incredible articulate of what ought to be the passion of every person to learn. but should there be standards, some goal so that we know how well students are doing? >> absolutely. you have to have standards. you cant just throw kids into school and hope they figure out whatever. you have to have a guideline. the problem ...

Same reasons or for the same input it used to be. so we had a conversation about 1% of the american people controlling the vast majority of the income. >> education doesnt -- thats the thing, we have these political systems and economic systems that is deeply inadequate, and yet the proposed solutions to that problem come from the same ideology that created that very problem. were not going to get out of this mess by repeating the same testing and market driven schemes that wrote the rest of the...

The income. >> education doesnt -- thats the thing, we have these political systems and economic systems that is deeply inadequate, and yet the proposed solutions to that problem come from the same ideology that created that very problem. were not going to get out of this mess by repeating the same testing and market driven schemes that wrote the rest of the economy. how do we make sure the next generation of children is prepared to revitalize the system. its not going to happen from test prep. ...

So we had a conversation about 1% of the american people controlling the vast majority of the income. >> education doesnt -- thats the thing, we have these political systems and economic systems that is deeply inadequate, and yet the proposed solutions to that problem come from the same ideology that created that very problem. were not going to get out of this mess by repeating the same testing and market driven schemes that wrote the rest of the economy. how do we make sure the next generation ...

Afford s.a.t. tutors. >> cant even -- >> who cant afford to send their kid off to s.a.t. camp, i mean what chances do i have today of competing when people are going to be looking at -- well so-and-so went to yale or harvard or dartmouth or berkeley. >> youre pointing out the game which we think of as a fair game, we have this equal opportunity and people by their grit and gumpion and brains work their way up. all these privileges cascade down from folks who have access to things like test prep ...

You wait for the score that helps determine which schools will admit you. it is all very uncertain except that the closest thing to a sure bet with the s.a.t.s is this. if you have wealthy parents, your score is going to be higher than kids from lower income homes. in 1935, thats what harvard president, james connet was trying to avoid when he required all applicants to take the test. he wanted to create truly universal educational opportunity at every level. back then, the $4 billion a year s.a...

31% mobility rate. 31% of the kids who start in the beginning of the year dont end up there. lets compare it to the school my youngest child attends. we have 6.5% low income kids. 5% african-american kids. 97% attendance rate. 2.1% mobility rate. when kids at my daughters school need help with test prep, the parents break out a check and get the preparation they need. the kids at my daughters school knows how to take a test is a function of their background. they are not worried about their clas...