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>> the standardized tests in new york city are harder? >> this common core program is something pushing in different states. they expected to have the low performance rates. but the issue of blacks and hispanics is a big one, greg. i think that the problem with education is that families either value it or they don't. we so often talk about the value of a good education is taught at home. if the kids aren't getting the parents that say study, how do they have this value, then, that it becomes important? >> what makes any education problem worse is the structural support for education and achie...

York city are harder? >> this common core program is something pushing in different states. they expected to have the low performance rates. but the issue of blacks and hispanics is a big one, greg. i think that the problem with education is that families either value it or they don't. we so often talk about the value of a good education is taught at home. if the kids aren't getting the parents that say study, how do they have this value, then, that it becomes important? >> what makes any education problem worse is the structural support for education and achievement, what scientists call the ...

That graduated to see what they owed. i saw numbers as high@as $80,000. this is a drain on our future. that starts inequality, but cause is inequality to be -- >> it's also the burden of that because you can't discharge even bankruptcy. >> exactly. >> but there's this broader question about indebtedness of the american consumer, right? which is one of the things -- one of the reasons that you have this reduced consumption and slow growth in the wake of the financial crisis, right, is that you have to go through the process of deleveraging, right? and deleveraging is a big part of what we've ha...

Country when we go out as foreign service officers and the like. finding people who can speak foreign languages who are capable of even studying abroad, it's more difficult if you're not acquiring foreign languages early. we know that the earlier you begin to acquire a foreign language the better you're going to be at speaking a foreign language and once you've acquired your first foreign language the second one is easier. so our schools do need to teach. but it's also something shocking for me, we tend to think of the education problem as one for lower income people and, indeed, that's the mo...

Discussion to say there are issues affecting rural areas versus urban areas. the laws in allentown is different than what's in the middle of the state in some rural area. >> but if you have high unemployment. 50% of kids graduating high school, therefore, don't have an opportunity to advance in our society, what it does, it criminalizes community, and so -- and kids get caught up in that. so it is not simply one sector that will solve this. not simpling the justice department or the police apparatus of the united states. has to be education, jobs, health, housing. has to be transportation. cit...