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office, our state's leaders had come together to pass bipartisan measures that were making a difference. in reading and math, our student were in the top. that reveals what good teachers will do if the system will let them. the problem was, this success wasn't shared. a significant achievement gap between students of different races remain. so we set out to do our best to close it. i urge faster interventions and promote science and excellence skills in schools and propose paying bonuses to our best teachers. i refuse to weaken testing standards and instead raise them. students now m...

Then gone on to college. >> this year we sent the class of 2010 off to college. that was our founding class. we're very proud of them. >> greg explain, why did the kellogg organization want to get behind this? i know you do things with charter schools, but why is this one of importance? >> invest in inoovation and the charter school movement was, first and foremost, identifying practices that could better educate our children and close the achievement gap. what often gets overlooked is the importance of early childhood education and what we try to do at the wk kellogg foundation is invest in y...

We did reject orders that did not meet our quality standards, but in these cases we have tried to work with suppliers to resolve the matter. thomas, as for bp's statement that it's tried to resolve matters with unhappy suppliers, the companies we spoke with say that has not yet happened in their cases. thomas? >> lisa myers in washington for us, lisa, thank you. we now turn to msnbc special week-long coverage of america's education crisis. we're examining the problems and looking at the possible solutions in a series of reports called "making the grade." this morning we look at one of the su...

She's back. >> tharmgs, eric. >> listen to the debate. time of the year the kids look for the most. we have the boy scouts outside playing with tents and everything, some experts say that long summer vacations are leading to a massive education gap. should we force our kids to spend more time in class? ed with alliance for childhood and the founder of kip, the knowledge is power program in atlanta. david, will the me start with you this morning, get rid of summer vacation and we could solve our educational problems? >> well, i wouldn't go so far as to say we can solve all of our educational pr...

It never innovates. >> it's not unfair to say that big constituti institution unions don't tend to innovate well. sometimes they do, but they don't tend toward it. innovation usually happens is smaller. in education, where we see innovation now there is a charter school outfit capped k.i.p.p., knowledge is power program. they're now national. started with two teacher america graduates who got sent to teach in houston and they said holy cow! this is hard. teaching is incredibly hard. everything about the current system makes it harder. what if we start from scratch? i feel the innovation we're ...