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Good morning everyone. memorial day is not just about barbecues and parades. as we honor this special holiday, we're asking how much do we truly know about memorial day. here to test our knowledge is the cofounder and c.e.o. of learn our history. >> good morning, brad. >> thanks for having me. >> we're all very nervous about this segment. are we about to embarrass ourselves? >> i think you all are going to get every question right. >> somehow i ended up with two sets of answers. >> before we get into the trivia, why is it so important for us to understand the reason behind some of these holida...

Angeles, erica, let's start with you. are we seeing more these days, this sort of bullying that we saw at south hadley high school? and how much of an influence is technology, particularly, social networking, having on all of this? >> good morning. yes, i think we are starting to see more incidents of bullying coming out now. and a lot of it does have to do with social networking because children are now being raised where they don't even communicate with one another. they can have all these kind of relationships via text message, facebook, other networking sites. so children aren't learning h...

We've researched a four-day week for two years, and the studies said that the academic achievement under a four-day week is neutral. neither positive nor negative gain. we have found there's a great increase in staff and student attendance. >> let me stop you there. how did the studies -- i just -- i'm trying to figure out how the studies say that, if you have an entire day that the children aren't learning where normally they would be. how could that be neutral? >> well, because you keep the hours of instruction the same. so when we go to a four-day week, our students have the same amount of ...