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Multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? >> 30, 40, 50 -- yes. >> melissa sees learning math as a step towards getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i looked like a dam fool. ky see myself now out there. i looked like a damn fool. running around like [ bleep ] probably smelled like one. i don't know. 37 years old. i can't do this no more. i don't want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we're the allens. we'r...

It comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with that's easy for me, if i can help her with it's not going to hurt me to sit down with her for ten minutes and write out the tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? >> 30, 40, 50 -- yes. >> melissa sees learning math as a step towards getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. >> monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there's not a day that passed, every day. i look like a damn fool. i can see myself now out there. running around like [ bleep ] probably smelled l...

this week as 16 million americans are out of work, the economy is struggling to grow and the housing market remains a mess, we learn that total student loan debt now topping $1 trillion for the first time. at the same time, 15% of 20 to 24-year-old americans do not have jobs. student loan delinquencies have jumped to more than 11% doubling just over the past few years. nicholas kristof is a columnist for "the new york times," moody's expects student loan problems to only get worse. this is a really tough situation for young people. no jobs, tons of debt, an economy that's not favorin...

better than 6-year-old kindergartners. why? >> because school makes kids smarter. the experience of being young in class makes kids work harder and as a result they learn more. the kids who are oldest in the class are already doing pretty well and they're not motivated to work as hard. >> there's so many moms and datdads who think this red shirting a sports term, but holding their kid back one year is going to let them mature a little bit. maybe be a little more confident when they head into kindergarten nap is a miscon jepgs you say that's hurting children. parents listening now are...

He said well, we are hiring so many teachers. we can barely keep up. we know that if we are going to compete in the future, we have to have the best teachers. we have to have our kids in school longer and make sure that they are learning math and science. they are hiring teachers in droves. what are we doing? we are laying off teachers. it makes no sense in this economy where the young people's success will depend on the kind of education they can get. so for us to be laying off teachers. doesn't make sense for the kids and doesn't make sense for us and doesn't make sense for the economy. pass...