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They've doubled their nationwide average. for example, i could be going through and trying to get my regents diploma if it's in new york at the same time to say i want to be hands on with something? >> absolutely. you know when you think of career paths going on to college, going on to medical school and going on to surgical, one of the things they found out is going out of medical school that half of the medical school students were washing out and the blunt truth is that if you can't sew and if you can't saw and can't drill, you can't be a surgeon so we view career and tech ed classes as bei...

Experiment to ordinary people every day, all day long. >> it's amazing stuff. >> unbelievable thing. and every hour is like a day. you're learning something, deciding something. so for me, when i left, you know, under fire, smeared, whatever, i still thought i had a responsibility to try to explain what i was seeing. and that's what this book is about. i saw -- i was a grass roots outsider. became a white house insider. and then i became a gross roots outsider again. and i saw the misfires, how the white house didn't really understand the grassroots movement. the grassroots movement certainly ...

Studying and preparing for class. a third of full-time students and when we looked at their transcripts they had a 3.2 gpa. >> let's hook at this. pie chart. big yellow part, 51% socializing followed by sleeping, working, volunteering, student clubs, not so much. >> yeah, we're not asking very much of our students today. we're making it very easy for them to go through college and universities without having to read very much. without having to write very much and bout -- without having to study. yet, they think they're doing just fine. they think they're going to get these degrees that will b...

sergeant. his children were so glad to see him just a few months ago. hello, everyone. it's the top of the hour. i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. we're going to begin tonight with the rescue of an international yacht racing team hundreds of miles off the california coast. the crew is competing in the clipper around the world race. it's like the tv show "survivor" except on the high seas. everyday people, cab drivers, teachers, bankers, compete against other teams circling the globe. and they chronicle their journey, as this video shows. now in the final leg of the 4500-mile...

Have to get paid now because they feel like they're being used by big companies to get free experience. i'll give you 15 seconds on that. >> no, no, exploitation is if i capture you in a net and bring you to my place and make you work for me, let me tell you something, i work hard and i created this business and i'm giving you a chance to learn from my experience. if there's exploitation, you're exploiting me. i'm charging you $10 which is deeper than a college education and you're learning something you can use. grab some pampers on the way out and be here at 6:00 in the morning. job is start...