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That, they're putting in superintendents. so with this money, what type of strings are attached? >> well, what you refer to specifically is two projects from the brode foundation. they run a superintendents academy. they want to take people from outside the world of education. this is part of the business model. let's take military leaders, people at the top of their profession, and let's say business, give them six weekends of training and then help to find them jobs as superintendents. and they placed -- in 2009 they placed 43% of all the superintendents in large urban districts came out of ...

That didn't work. we're going to try another experiment. so the things they're doing now in charter schools, in turnarounds which close schools and replace them with charters, in terms of merit pay for teachers, in terms of basing teacher evaluations and student evaluations on standardized tests, none of these things have been proven scientifically. a lot of studies are coming out now to show that they don't work. and yet this has really shaped the policy, in part because arne duncan comes right out of the foundation world. he was on the board of the brode foundation. he believes in all of thi...