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Lives below the poverty line and 15% hold college degrees. >> right. >> so youll have a vast population. >> were the largest growing population -- >> so -- >> a large uneducated group. >> what is the single most effective ting. >> education is the single most important thing because its the key to economic mobility and you have many points of intervention. so if somebody falls behind or is left behind, you can catch them at another stage. i mean, obviously, you want kids to learn math and read b...

>> so -- >> a large uneducated group. >> what is the single most effective ting. >> educaon is the single most important thing because its the key to economic mobility and you have many points of inrvention. so if somebody falls behind or is left behind, you can catch them at another stage. i mean, obviously, you want ds to learn math and read by third grade or else they are not going to graduate high school but if they dont they can go back and read and learn and thats one thing with education ...

To first grade with who were still in first grade when i was in third and who after third grade dropped out. i never saw them again. i was always aware that because my mom had grown up in such poverty in oklahoma, such unbelievable, you know, depression era poverty that i could so easy have been, and because poverty is cyclical, should have been one of those kids. i made my way out. the reason i did is because my parents found a way to get educated. i know that education is the way out of povert...

May find regards cold. >> i think regards sounds like a british way to sign off. >> yeah, it does. >> here is another one. best. its like this is not much of an effort, right, if you just write best. pros and cons, can sometimes feel abrupt, but good for anyone from acquaintances to strangers to bosses. sincerely. thats the one i remember to write in cursive in third grade. pros and cons. ubiquitous, emily post calls it the best end to go a formal social note. >> im suspicious. anytime you annou...

Around using those particular code names. >> but theyre so corny, it sounds like something he personally might have made up. >> it might have qualified for that sort of third grade humor level that we all became so endeared of. >> its not good. and then you have to do the romney laugh afterwards. >> ha-ha-ha. >> thanks so much, "washington post" dana milbank. extra republican candidates on display tomorrow in new jersey and virginia. will the gps lead the party back from the brink? >> tuesday ...

Minutes, featured more than 15,000 l.e.d. lights, took organizers about a month of planning to get everything right. and brian is so happy halloween is gone. that was a traumatic experience for you as a child. >> as an adult. i cant shake this halloween. >> was it second or third grade? >> third grade. >> this is a happy time for kid. they get candy. >> enough with the kids. every day is for the kids. can we have one day thats for us? >> okay. >> you only want halloween for you, not just kphobgz...

Threats, though, on her life, and she says they will not stop her. a nonprofit organization is helping close the gaps in public school budgets. you know how hard it is for teachers now? all across our country they have been digging into their own pockets just to make sure your students get the supplies they need. well, now they can just go online and find donors. laura engle has more. >> reporter: school is underway at mitchell elementary in philadelphia and third grade teacher jason boy is di...

Looking in. you can dress however you want. >> im only hearing this is the kind of semiage appropriate. >> she told you she is not interested in dating you. >> i know that was inadvertently what she said. she smiled and she is pretty so i was like, okay, that counts. >> do you dress this way, probably most of your life and its never going to change? >> i think im on my 12 pair of boating shoes actually. to be honest with you, i had my first ascott in third grade and i still have it. i am a propo...

>> okay. >> reporter: common cores voluntary state standards were developed a decade ago. a few states signed up but will little controversy then in 2009 president obama started a stampede by offering states economic stimulus funds under his race to the top education program if they adopted common cores standards. 45 states now have them. but some fear the feds are taking over local control of education with a one size fits all standard that could dumb things down and hold kids back. >> the idea...

Their official mascot. he is being replaced with chesty xiv who has been training for the position since march. they say it was his dogged determination that earned him the honorary role. amongst many of the big speakers was a little one. 8-year-old robbie novak. you may know him better as kid president. the youtube sensation whose imaginative videos scored him an invite to the oval office back in april. >> i think you should try to sit behind the desk so you look a little more official. >> he...