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Teachers in a row and the average child would be 2 1/2 to 3 grade levels ahead. we need to clone those teachers, put them in real leadership positions to help them share their knowledge. great teachers, great principals, talent matters tremendously in education. so what's happening to america's schools? don lemon takes a look in a cnn special report, fixing america's schools, tonight at 6:00 eastern time. be sure to join us for "fixing america's schools," only on cnn. what the president and first lady are doing to protect their kids online. and what you can do to protect yours, when we com...

Education. they need to do a better job of preparing teachers to come into education, more practice, less theory, more hands on experience, but we have to do a much, much better job of helping teachers being successful and rewarding success. we have been scared to talk about excellence. great teachers make a huge difference in students' lives. every kind of -- every kind of study shows three great teachers in a row and that average child will be a year and a half to two grade levels ahead, three bad teachers in a row and that average child will be so far behind, they may never catch up. we nee...

19:25 on the east coke. eric holder said osama bin laden will never be tried in u.s. courts because he believes the terror mastermind won't be captured but killed. holder made the comments to lawmakers tuesday while defending the administration's decision to try some terror suspects in civilian courts. >> granting osama bin laden the right to appear in a u.s. courtroom, you are clothing him with the protections want u.s. constitution. >> you are talking about a hypothetical that will never occur. we will be reading miranda rights to the corpse of osama bin laden. he will never appear in an ame...

Heads and it didn't go over well, and the board unanimously overturned that... bill: christmas was taken out, and then it was put back in? >> yes. yes. it was, it was put back in and there are a number of other examples and the professor served on the review panel and can explain those things but, obviously, it wasn't something that was agreed with, by the people of texas or the state board of education. who reversed that decision, in the first go-around here. bill: let me get the professor on that. can you explain why a decision like that would be made? clearly one later reversed and what is ...

Teachers credit for moving kids up. they get credit moving them to or above grade level. the teacher -- because of their position, the obama administration as well too often puts priority on not how well the student is doing, value added or just objective outcomes, what they're putting an emphasis on, how long the teacher has been in the classroom. for example, going back to the job fund, last in, first out policies and instead of safing, all right, i've have a teacher moving children up a grade or two grade levels based where they started in math or reading. instead of keeping those effective...