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City kids that bureaucrats show at risk of failure. >> its 100 on top of their game right now. >> going to our school is a ticket to educational success. >> john: this woman runs several charter schools. all get outstanding test scores. >> john: you do this with the same money? >> we have to do it with less, less per child. >> john: how? from less money. do they get the kids so interested? >> they give them math, and reading but learning is work. [ laughter ] >> john: the school is longer, they ...

>> so many applicants but not that many spices zploojts what do you do when you have thousands of people and few hundred slots. they hold a lottery. winners are happy. sadly there are many more losers. on the other end of america, in oakland, california another charter change gets similar results using different methods. >> give me the worst school in oakland, black, mexican, give us the worst schools anywhere in america and well take it and well outperform the other schools in five years. >> jo...

Amount. >> we get less. we get less than every other school. >> the kids in american indian schools are scoring so far above the average for the state for public school children that there isnt even a word for it. >> john: they use different techniques. here at american indian they pay some daddys tutor other kids. >> we hire students and pay them. they are excited. they are going to make some money. >> john: politically incorrect? >> good for you. youll be a rare bird. >> he has been criticized...

Flat, much more money, no improvement. this is awful, but there is some good news. around america, very, very cool things are starting to happen. >> school is boring. yes, it is. i went to school. grade school was born, so was high school was boring, so was princeton except for the party part. but fourth grade you have to learn reading and writing. that is work. >> reading is work but its rocking awesome. >> john: and they say school is fun? >> how is it fun to learn. >> if you learn in a fun wa...

These kids. >> john: they use all sort of new teaching techniques, they use ear pieces and coached by their bosses. >> what they telling you. >> they are telling me of things that i dont see. if i dont think of a great question in the moment, my principal is able to feed that to me in the earpiece. we see teachers like in olympics so they need constant support. >> john: kids wave their hands around but its what they call active listening. instead of interrupting contrast or i agree with that. th...

Tenure. >> why else would you take a [ bleep ] salary. most places continues to have tenure but there is good news. at some schools where teachers can be fired kids learn. >> give us the worst schools anywhere in america and well outperform the other schools in five years. >> john: how good are the scores. >> there isnt a worse score. >> but there are problem kids. >> no way, i love school. >> but sadly up to now, adult schools have run it and made us stupid in america. >> john: schoolpending ...

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