Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110927:20:11:00
National education standards and 45 states have tentatively agreed to implement them. i would start with that. and then, if i were starting again, i would have a longer school year. and give more time on task. i would have every school open after school and on the weekends. we had no federal funding for that when i became president and we were sporting somewhere between $1.3 and 1.6 million kis in after-school programs when i left. i think that is really, really important. a lot of this is just time on task. particularly for kids whose first language is not english. a lot of this dropout rate ...