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Extra tests so they could stay in the hospital an extra day or two but now fortunately god is giving me an opportunity to do something about it. and that s one of the reasons i m delighted to be in this administration. while i was there, i worked on a lot of issues with many politicians, including elijah cummings. in a particularly in terms of childhood education and improving the life for the people. i don t think elijah cummings is a bad person. think he actually is working hard to try to help people and i certainly don t think president trump is a bad person. he s working very hard in fact ask him today would you be willing to work with elijah cummings to bring some relief to the people of baltimore and he said he would be happy to. in the meantime, going to continue with the programs like the opportunity zones which get people to take money and invest it into the areas that are distressed. if there are 149 of them. and governor hogan is doing a good job to help and capitalize on ....
Is emotional for a lot of people in a way to make progress with that discussion and you are talking about the problem? is there a way to do that without inflaming continuations and emotions. there is. there is an issue and not coming from a partisan lane on this. family break down in the black community. too many children are born out of wedlock and two parent households. that does have complications and poverty in any case. and follows with failure in education and i am all for fixing education. broken education system supported by groups like the nnaacp when that is proven to help. hang o. it is not going. i understand jamu, but let me ....
Too much and become an evangelical host and that s not a good thing. then you become as messianic as the people you re criticizing. but i didn t hesitate to say what i thought and in many ways i m penalized for that. i mean, nobody likes a scold, a negative person. and that s i think the problem that we ll always confront, the liberal. i have to ask you what i was going to ask you at the start of this segment, which is the american dream. in many ways you personify the great american dream. i think so, too. what s happened to that dream now? is it the same? well should it be adapted for the modern era? what do you think? look at my own early history. i worked in a steel mill when i was 18 years old in the summer. i was a student at notre dame and i worked republic steel in ....
Concerned or spending more money to fix education than the bill and melinda gates foundation. in total, its bankroll, $5 billion worth of initiatives for students and schools. i visited bill gates at his foundation s new headquarters in seattle to talk about his latest plans. if you were the secretary of education, i d say you are even more powerful than the secretary of education. suppose you could change something about the structure of american education, the system. what would it be? if i was in charge of a school district, it d be about hiring the best teachers. and how do you get them to learn from each other and how do you make sure you re bringing the really good ones in? so the basic research about great teaching, that s now become our biggest investment. it s okay. it s good. it could be a very smart investment. one study says that if students had a top teacher for four years straight, the achievement gap between blacks and whites would disappear. ....
For high school dropouts, it is 14%. part of the reason we re in this crisis is that we have slacked off and allowed our education system to get rigid and sclerotic. but part of it is that other countries have focused intensely on education in recent decades. the result? we have a population of adults now that face real competition in a global economy. as bill gross, the head of the world s largest bond firm, pimco, puts it, american workers are too expensive and too poorly educated to compete globally. there are two variables here. our education level, which is too low, and our wages, which are too high. either we raise education or markets will lower our wages. it s already happening. our decline in education achievements over the last 20 years has been accompanied by a stagnation in wages for the median american worker. ....