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a country. indeed our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. let's take a look. 100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred won't graduate from high school, a total of 50 won't go to college. that's half the class that won't go on to higher education. 50 will attends college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 15 in science and 31st in math. what's odd is that we have been outstand...

100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 won't graduate from high school. a total of 50 won't go to college. that's half the class that won't go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. what's odd is that we've been outs...

manchester tonight. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is there and so is cnn's political reporter shannon travis. good to see both of you. you look very happy. i know you've been working your butts off, but you look lively. paul, let's start with you. there is a debate tonight, another tomorrow. why are they so important? >> well, listen, don. we've seen the whole cycle of debates, they've been so outsized in importance like we've never seen before. the debates make and break candidates t. they broke rick perry. they've broken herman cain and some others. well, that could happen ...

the full blessing of a judge. at the heart of all of this, a federal law that makes it illegal to break up native american families. george howell digging into this case for us. he joins us. explain how this girl's biological dad was able to do this after two years? >> dustin brown is the biological father and he used this law child the indian child welfare act. it's basically designed to keep indian families together, to keep them from being broken up. he is enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter, partially native american. so through the courts, he was able to get his daught...

this is cnn saturday morning. i'm gary tuchman. we sit down and chart this morning with politics. the new hampshire primary is three days away. as we saw in iowa, every single vote literally counts. mitt romney, ron paul and jon huntsman have been out to meet voters this morning. here is jon huntsman talking about his hopes for new hampshire. >> all the others have gone up and down. you know, i'm getting a stiff neck just watching all of my friends just go up and down. perry, cain, back mapp, thhmaba come in, go up to 22 and down to 2. i don't want that to happen to me. i want a grad...