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Third, as in third grade, which according to a study by professor of sociology donald hernandez at the city university of new york is the most important year in your education. why? because its the year that you stop learning to read and start reading to learn. 3,975, thats how many students professor hernandez followed for 19 years, tracking their reading scores and economic status. of all the students surveyed, one-third struggled to read in third grade. and if they were among that third, they...

To make sense of words on the page, to reading to learn, which means that they are reading these fact-filled books about the solar system, native americans, the civil war. theyre learning from what theyre reading. if at that point they havent been able to make the leap to fast, fluent reading, theyre not going to be amassing the knowledge, that background knowledge that their classmates are getting and theyre not going to be learning new words from context. so its going to become ever harder to ...

High poverty, our focus on college and career ready brings me back to one thing. we dont have kids kindergarten ready. and until we can get kids kindergarten ready and be able to read at grade level by third grade and then they need to read to learn from there on in, we havent been able to crack that. and it comes back to kind of the early childhood question. what specifically would be your solutions to get kids kindergarten ready? >> i described that we do have programs like head start. we can ...

Country when we go out as foreign service officers and the like. finding people who can speak foreign languages who are capable of even studying abroad, its more difficult if youre not acquiring foreign languages early. we know that the earlier you begin to acquire a foreign language the better youre going to be at speaking a foreign language and once youve acquired your first foreign language the second one is easier. so our schools do need to teach. but its also something shocking for me, we t...

You have to be twice as good. but they meant you have had to be twice as prepared educationally as anyone else. >> shawn rearden at stanford has a study showing that the achievement gap now between rich and poor, has doubled. and fact between black and white students. >> yes. >> this brand is widening. what are the solutions to that? >> the major issue, if you are a middle-class african-american kid or better, youre probably now going to do okay. so thats the good news. race is less dispositive ...

No evidence whatsoever to suggest that alcohol at a young age have any proven benefits. we actually know if you give children alcohol the younger they are and exposed to alcohol the greater risk of being exposed to alcohol problems later in life. if you look at the age of the children, if you give alcohol before the age of ten there is much higher incidence of drinking at 14. >> shep: this third grade stuff. and senior you are about to go off to college, its time to do this in front of us so lat...

Romney doesnt have a better organized campaign. >> if you say anything bad about obama, they put you on the defensive, are you a racist? everybody who doesnt work is voting for obama. >> do you love cutting edge political satire, then you absolutely cant miss the comedy duo that rocked the republican national convention. >> whomever has the elite smart people on our side. what a snob. >> when friends need to say something to each other, they pick up the phone. >> president obama has thrown allie...

We had a pretty good idea what all those families, all you americans in trouble were going through. in part because our own families had gone through similar struggles. barack, as a young man had to sit at the end of his mothers hospital bed and watch her fight with her insurances company, at the very same time she was fighting for her life. when i was a young kid in third grade, i remember my dad come up the stairs at my grandpops house where we were living, sitting at the end of my bed and say...

Republican party convention headliner. what it tells us about the romney vp pick. >> steve: also, he was jailed for leaving a bible study at his own house. but this morning, hes still praying behind bars and hes got company. hes not alone. "fox & friends," hour 2, for a monday, starts right now. >> anna: i was trying to do, brian, was the last second, i was -- >> steve: you handed him something that looked like an envelope. >> brian: like a paper airplane. it pays to take aragami with your elect...

nasas "curiosity" rover expected to land on mars tonight. plus, fires in oklahoma raging out of control. tens of thousands of acres scorched. those numbers could go up. and later -- >> allowed to have a boyfriend? >> no. >> you allowed to party on the weekends? >> no. >> allowed to take a few days off and not train when shes worn out? >> no. >> a lifetime of sacrifices may lead to a necklace of gold. regardless of performance, three american boxers will make history in london just ...