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Of scandals that have occurred not just here but around the world where teachers were rewarded or penalized on the performance of their students. some in the profession say cheating was inevitable, that this is a perverse incentive. and that's why performance-related pay does not make sense when it's applied to testing. in fact, an academic paper published ten years ago predicted almost exactly what appears to have happened in atlanta. "as incentives for high test scores increase, unscrupulous teachers may be more likely to engage in a range of illicit activities. including changing student re...

And struggling to feed their children. the documentary shows us the human consequences of budget cuts, the subprime mortgage crisis and hollowing out of of the american middle class. >> we need help. >> we just got an eviction notice. >> are you sleeping in your car? >> under a bridge, actually. >> i hear them sometimes saying we skipped dinner because we need to feed or kids. sometimes when i hear that, i cry. sometimes. >> for the middle class in this country, we have a one strike and you're out economy. the system that once was in place to cushion those crises has been frayed. the most enda...

Drones are so remote, there is still burn-out suffered by people who operate them even on safe u.s. terrain. it is not without its sort of moral residue even at home by the people who are participating in this program, and i think that's worth thinking about. >> just to go back to both david's points and katrina's, we were talking earlier about the legal at. when the legal standards for targeting american citizens are so loose, what are the standards that are being applied to nonstandards, non-citizens. that has to be a real concern. so far we know of four u.s. citizens who have been killed as...

Joe donally with a sizable lead over richard murdock. in wisconsin, tammy baldwin with a small lead over former republican tommy thompson. it is not just politicians on the ballot. voters will be changing laws themselves directly through hundreds of ballot initiatives with profound and far reaching consequences. in 1994, californians passed a proposition known as the three strikes law with 70% of the vote. anyone convicted of two felonies convicted of a third felony gets a sentence of 25 years to life. it became a model for dozens throughout the country with massive human consequences. over 40...

Of this type of exposure, and people in the gulf are experiencing them, and i honestly think based on my studies that 200,000 fig sir probably small. again, remember, 21 million people live on the gulf coast. they were exposed to an unprecedented environmental disaster. they're going to suffer the human consequences. >> antonia, one of the things that's confusing about this, a bunch of parallel prausz processes in place. based on different kinds of classes. health effects disaggregated from economic effects. there is the natural resources, damage assessment, happeningeneder the oil spill act y...