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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151026:15:25:00

So it s not just about tests and high stakes tests. what happened and what the president s announcement is so important about is because they have been doing all these waivers of no child left behind, and that the waivers have continued and put on steroids high-staked testing. so him saying we were complussant in this. we have to take a step back, it s a big deal. but one thing, a lot of people are still skeptical, like parents whose kids have been so stressed out, they re like, show me a real difference, and teachers who for the last four years have been saying we need time to be creative. we can t just have one test mean so much that we can t be creative or we can t actually address special needs kids or high needs kids or it s a one size fits all formula. and buy all accounts, from parents to teachers to students, it has not worked. but i ve got to bring this up. you know, we peruse and looked for critics of, you know, who ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151026:15:23:00

We are following developing news at the white house where president obama is signaling a dramatic shift on standardized testing by reducing the number of exams students take. right now, the president is meeting with education secretary arne duncan and education officials from all around the world. it comes amid growing criticism from opponents on the left and the right that teachers are spending too much time focusing on exams rather than course material. under his new plan unveiled this weekend, the president is recommending school districts use no more than 2% of classroom time for standardized tests. he also said his administration will work with school districts to make sure schools are administering tests that enhance teaching and learning. and provide a clear picture of how students are performing. learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151026:15:28:00

Students. consuming too much time and creating undue stress for educators and students. here again, from the education department. you will have, i think, any parents who sees that statement say this is what we have been saying all along. exactly. so what s happened is that, so in april 2013, i came out with saying let s have a moratorium on the stakes, and a lot of these people were like, oh, no, you re anti-accountability. i m pro child and i m pro teacher. we have to find different ways of doing it, and frankly, there are different ways. but there has to be a delinking from evaluation and also from not closing schools because of the tests. there needs to be a way to monitor teachers to make sure that these benchmarks are being met. that s some of the criticism obviously. this is what you do. there s three questions you ask about in a teacher evaluation. one, does the teacher have the tools they need to do their job? number two, have i taught it? number three, have kids learned ....

Education Department , April 2013 , Joshua Wheeler , Teacher Evaluation , High School ,

CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello October 22, 2015 13:19:00

But your fellow committee members say there will be new information coming out in this hearing. do you have any clue as to what that might be? well no. and this is i think a very interesting fact. you know, as the former prosecutor you always have to be suspicious when somebody attributes the bench marks of success in investigation by how many people they have interviewed and how many documents they have gathered rather than what those witnesses or documents say. they haven t been able to point to anything that is really new. there may be some e-mails that ha haven t had before. but the fact is when we looked a at the new e-mails they are no different in kind or character than the e-mails we had. they will do their very best i think to make it seem new, to put a new dress on an old figure in terms of this investigation. but the fact of the matter is that the body of this investigation has been the same all along. and we haven t discovered anything new really for all of ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151012:08:48:00

The most respected republicans in the house, you bring in general mcchrystal, condi rice, people like larry arn and bill kristol and at the end of it paul ryan says here are my terms, i will lead if you will give me 230 votes and they should vote for him and he should lead. he is the guy to lead. we need him to lead. kathleen just wrote don t do it, paul. he would be a great speaker. he has the qualifications for the job and he s well like and respected. he s the brainy one in the party. anyway, there s going to do the same thing. the freedom caucus folks will do the same thing to him they ve done to everyone else because eventually he will whoever said it, i think it was congressman dent. he will have to have conversations with democrats. he will eventually face these debt ceilings, these other benchmarks that they re going to fight him on. so i ve said don t run because why would you? why would you walk into that? and why if you think paul ryan is such a promising figure an ....

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