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President's big idea to combine six agencies and departments. why it sounds a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic to us. plus thinking of ending war the same way we think ant curing cancer. the radical concept that both war and cancer are really fundamentally matters of human biology. all that and a little masterpiece theater involving sir william goois this friday afternoon. is it fast? it's got 10 speeds, my friend. ♪ is it fast? it's got a lightning bolt on it, doesn't it? ♪ is it fast? i don't even know if it's street-legal. ♪ is it safe? oh, yeah. it's a volkswagen...

Bait. this is the president trying to demonstrate that republicans have a difficult time taking yes for an answer. what he is talking about is streamlining the federal government. consolidating agencies. >> reducing number of employees. >> reducing the number of employees. some outside of the congress. some republicans outside of the congress and affiliated groups say they are rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. saving would amount to a drop in the bucket of $3 billion. by consolidating these agencies and eliminating the commerce department itself. so far republicans aren't taking the ...

and for now at this point, kyra, i've reached out to some republicans here on the hill. they're reserving judgement at this point. as you know, they frequently talk about wanting smaller government, so on its face this seems like something that they could go along with but, of course, they're waiting right now to see what president obama says. they're waiting to see if there are any catches. you see president obama here doing a couple of things. he's trying to make good on some promises about having more efficient government. he's also trying to put congress in a spot where he says, ...

We've circled the globe to learn lessons on education from other countries and sought answers from advocates for change here at home. but there are some who say that incremental reform of the current education system would be like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. they argue for a complete overhaul of the education system. >> most of the time kids spend their days at school doing low-grade clerical work. human intelligence is much more exciting and diverse than that. >> sir ken robinson is a professor ameritus at the university of warwick and the author of several books on creativity...

in 2007 we spent over $10,000 per student. versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? we'll ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education. here on this special and in a time essay. we'll examine the roll of teachers, testing and technology and we'll ask the man who spend billions of dollars trying to fix education about how he's spending his money, microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. first, there are two nations whose students consistently rank on top of the world. s...