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Strong amounts of dollars in that really crucial first five years of life. >> a financial priority. >> absolutely. >> mark shriver, thank you so much. thanks for being a part of education nation as well. >> thank you. >> i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow. up next, "andrea mitchell reports" live from education new york. andrea? >> hi, craig. thanks so much. we are live on education nation plaza with general colin powell and alma powell, founders of the nation's largest partnership for america's children. and some surprising straw polls. how the republican ...

In pre-kindergarten classes. mark shriver is a senior vice president of the nonprofit save the children's u.s. programs. mark, good afternoon to you. >> thank you for having me. >> first of all, what is it that kids are learning so early in pre-k that's so important? is it the subject matter? or is it learning skills? >> it's actually a combination of both. it's the social and emotional growth that little kids are learning in those first five years of life, and it's the cognitive development. so they're learning to recognize the alphabet, how to hold a book. but they're also learning how to in...

>> no. >> as ron paul continues to fight for relevancy, that exchange raised major questions about health care and ethics. meanwhile, the back of the back candidates will only continue to grow. michele bachmann appears to be fading pretty fast. she walked away from the florida straw poll with just 1%. 1.5%, excuse me, in the michigan straw poll vote after seeing her star rise early on, bachmann may also be slipping into the also-ran category as well. that's going to do it for me. i'm going to see you back here at 11:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. craig melvin picks things up next and he joins me wi...

In the class. he comes in for parents weekend. i said, abby, bring governor huntsman in. i want him to talk to the class. he gives a great presentation to the class. he begins by giving this class of 90 students his daughter's e-mail saying she can't get a date. >> oh, good lord. >> is that like a -- >> oh! >> was he joking? >> well, of course. abby looks like a movie star. she was hired by cbs. you should have seen abby's face. i don't think she's talked to her father since. >> oh! >> it just like our friend in massachusetts. >> that's cute. >> do you think a guy who did that can be president...

>> that was a scene from the oscar-nominated film "the kids are all right." are you ready to move on? >> i didn't know you went to bu. by the way y thought we were just playing the who because -- so you're in a movie called "the kids are all right"? >> yeah. >> julianne moore is here to talk, among other things, about another important role in her life as artist ambassador for save the children, the organization located in westport, right? >> uh-huh. yeah. >> also with us, save the children's senior vice president, mark shriver. >> before we get there, though, we're connecting the dots here. b...