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There's also less academic advising in germany, a more hands-off approach with students schuman says. so you can get a prestigious degree for free at a german university but the experience might not match the vibrant, dlab ra tiff wide ranging experience that one can get on an american college campus. but is there a smarter way to help expand access to the american style of higher education? michael crow the president of arizona state university for the last 13 years, has some very interesting ideas in his recent book. he's hoping to bring quality education to the masses like never before in t...

14th and we need a urine sample in, if you were innocent you'd get it in a heartbeat. >> absolutely. but there are so many bad teachers. i put the number at about 20%, 25%. 75% of american teachers, great. but there are a lot of bad ones. and you know -- >> it looks like -- >> if i were a teacher and i refused to take a test there, if i were the principal those teachers would be -- >> well, that's the thing. >> -- like -- >> they're in the classroom teaching right now. they could be teaching a 4-year-old. there could be little 4-year-olds being taught by somebody who's apparently addicted to h...

What barack obama wants is more spending going forward in the future. and, frankly, he doesn't have much credibility on this. the senate voted four times when he was in the senate to raise the debt ceiling. he voted against it once. he couldn't be bothered to show up for it twice. >> i want to ask you something quick. apparently one of your professors at harvard is now a u.s. senator from massachusetts. elizabeth warren. tell me about her class. you were telling me interesting things off camera about her class. it was among the most rigorous you took. >> yes. elizabeth warren was my contract l...

Can you believe that? it's our lucky day. [ applause ] 2011 teacher of the year in connecticut. and you voted that less than 1/3 should go to teacher evaluation. that is completely on the other side of the planet than everyday folks in that gallup poll. what is the gap? what's the problem? >> i think the gap is that everyday folks in that poll don't understand the realities of classroom teaching particularly if you are teaching in districts where there's a high level of poverty. it's very very difficult to look at a test score and think that that accurately evaluates how i'm doing with my stud...

>> shannon: does the study devle into at all or share your insights into what is causing the rankings? >> the tough thing is when you see startling statistics like that everyone wants to know what is wrong, what is the one thing that we had to t need tod the challenge in education is the problems are multifaceted and complicated so there is not one thing that led us to where we are and there is not one thing that is going be able to fix the situation. what we do know is that there are several things we could do in this country that that two rapidly improve the quality of education that kids ar...