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The court documents detail that she and her husband paid $15,000 to singer to get him to take the -- change scores for her daughters s.a.t. tests which, in turn, made her test score higher in order to get admitted. in the case of lori loughlin, the court documents show that she and her husband paid singer to create a fake crew profile so that she could get into usc as a crew recruit each though she never rowed the sport. incredible detail in these documents. a lot of people who are named are ple...

Shep, there will be more folks stepping into the courtroom in this investigation far from over. >> shepard: so some coaches and some hollywood stars. what more do we know about those who have been charged? >> >> there are some 50 defendants in this case 10 10 current former ceo. two test administrators and one very, very talented test-taker named mark rodel could give someone an excellent test score or particular improvement one could be looking t for. lowe laughlin known for role in full house ...

How well do you want your child to do, what do you want the score to be? then someone would change their test score, submit it to somebody in turn, an a.c.t. who was also being bribed and was also in on the scam. so youre right, it was changing academic standards, changing test scores, and also phonying up athletic backgrounds. in some cases photoshopping the pictures of these students onto the bodies of actual athletes. >> i know for sure you got into school the right way, pete williamsen, the ...

Answers were similar to other test takers. great to see both of you have morning. thank you so much for being with us. lets start at the beginning. the first time you took the sat, i think you got a score of 900. what did you think of that score and what was your plan after that? >> that score was just a basic baseline for me. i just took it to get a feel for how i was so i could know my strengths and weaknesses in the test, so from that point i knew, well, i need to work on this or that because...

Here. we know test scores are highly correlated with socioeconomic status. you can actually see that from some of the research now. i think the thing that weve done is weve backed ourtzs in a corner because we live in this area where its that one number, that test score. >> i love this word. test ocracy. >> it became very big since the passage of no child left behind. we backed ourselves in a corner as a country because that is the one metric we use to determine what academic excellence is for c...

Success. so whats happened is in the last 15 years, first no child left behind, then race to the top. weve boiled kids down to a test score. teachers to algorithms. weve had this fixation on sanctioned based upon test rather than fixating on children. and the public is saying in a big neon light "stop it, already:" >> so where is that energy going to go in the democratic primary? you have already endorsed hillary clinton. >> so one of the things she said early on which really -- which our leader...

Can actually ascertain student success. so whats happened is in the last 15 years, first no child left behind, then race to the top. weve boiled kids down to a test score. teachers to algorithms. weve had this fixation on sanctioned based upon test rather than fixating on children. and the public is saying in a big neon light "stop it, already:" >> so where is that energy going to go in the democratic primary? you have already endorsed hillary clinton. >> so one of the things she said early on w...

Kwooimplt can be five points below or that of their test score. his iq might actually be 66, which would quality him as mentally disabled despite the fact hes scheduled to be executed. justice anthony kennedy and in his majority opinion wrote that floridas strict iq limit contravenes our nations commitment to dignity and its duty to teach human decency of a mark of a civilized world. the court can ruled because the iq score falls within the standard error of measurement, his fate should not be s...

Crutch to justify anything they want in the political arena, connected to scripture and oftentimes they turn out to be totally hypocritical. so what do christian values mean to republicans? its just a stepping stone, a footsto footstool, to get exactly what they want in the political arena. they hide behind their plastic jesus, quite often. just look at some of the things that have been said on the house floor. our next question comes from judy strollo. she wants to know, why is teaching the onl...

Bad test score, so youre a lousy teacher. thats, i guess you could savings the chris christie evaluation. one thing that really bothers me about christie in new jersey, hes -- you know, was in the legal system, an attorney on wall street, no experience whatsoever, not professionally trained at all in education, but all of a sudden, he is the self-anointed expert on education in america, and he has all the answers. cut a billion dollars out of the system, fired 6,000 teachers, and just tell every...