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Signaturely reduce significantly reduce that education gap between low income and high income students. >> all of the studies showed it would. >> are you going to change the environment in their schools in their neighborhoods and their families? >> i agree. if you're in a bad school and 11 months of the year as opposed to nine months of the year, i agree that isn't better. the fact is when kids are in school the difference between high income and low income tax students is very small. it's when they are out of school that the high income students, the low income students start going down and t...

Is that a surprise? >> like i have anything to do with it? >> we can -- the issue here is really that the gender gap has narrowed. we've seen improvement here. numbers from the labor department show that the men earned $884 a week. women earned 75% of that. $665. this is an improvement because the first quarter of 2000, women made 76% of men's income. the education gap has narrowed, that's helping to narrow this gap here. but, the recession also played a part because more men were adversary affected by women were. a lot of jobs they were in took a hit, like construction, for example. some say ...

And what works the best? money is i think, another reward. you can argue it is not a great reward but it is a very explicit way to see what works. what you find out is -- >> amanda, jim and i have very different viewpoints about this i think it is great. we are falling behind. we have a huge education gap in many parts of our country. as we stack up against other industrialized nations, everybody's parenting skills, everybody could improve in some way. the bottom line is, we are raising kids and want them to be smart and go to school. why? how do we measure success in this country. part of it ...

Those who cannot will get even worse, the education gap gets worse. guy, very big stakes so that's why we as a nation need to tackle this crisis facing our schools. >> thanks so much, josh. this really is a big problem especially in detroit when we keep hearing about the schools shutting down, we feel for these communities. >> the community school is such a sense of identity for so many folks. >> thanks, josh. checking our top stories. the pressure is on in the nation's capitol help house speaker nancy pelosi says a vote will be held tomorrow on the senate version of the massive health care ...

Yes, even if it means we fire teachers. >> the president's committed to doing the right thing by children. again, sometimes you have to change adults. in every low-performing schools, there's great teachers. there are some that aren't so good. even like the rhode island case discussed yesterday, good teachers can be rehired there. but this president has been committed from day one to saying we have to educate our way to a better economy. it's the only way we get there. day after day, week after week. he has stayed true to that mission. this is a personal one for him. >> all right. "newsweek's"...