Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120923:17:03:00
Education correspondent, rehema ellis, to start off this important conversation about the common core. before we do that you just spent over a week of your life covering the chicago teachers strike. dicey topic. fraught. so let's go there. what -- if there was one takeaway as a journalist, as a parent, what was it? >> teachers have a perception problem. there is this notion across the country that teachers are out there for themselves that they don't work hard enough they get paid too much and they're complaining. i had people send me e-mails about why is it that teachers are saying they're on...