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The fact when you use language like you should go home to your country, first of all missing all of the facts all together, 3-4 born in this country, but that's certainly a dog whistle. that is the language that has been used to segregate, to deny by race and ethnicity and, in fact, at times by gender in this country. >> has that ever happened to you? >> it has. it has. you will hear from members of congress, african-american, latinos and asian americans who had their own stories of how they've been treated and discriminated against. i've got my stories too. courses in school that i was shut o...

Ed: indoctrination going on. anti-trump rhetoric and sources and the like. we found a math course and believe it or not it's math at a popular university focusing on, a course on hillary clinton's quote, unquote, strong character. you have to wonder about that. hillary 101. what do you think, tomi? >> well, first of all, when we are talking about hillary clinton's strong character the math doesn't add up there. when we are talking about universities and professors that are teaching children things like, this teaching college students things like this and we wonder why kids aren't able to get j...

History of math, just not in math. that's a history course, not a math course. it's going to measure the outcomes here to see whether math scores go up or when they don't, we're going to blame the test as we often do. there's something wrong with the test. it's culturally biased or whatever. are we going to make excuses for bad scores or someone going to be held accountable for these ideas? >> i think we are not going to make excuses for bad scores. wewe can look at the change of that we made. there are schools that are indeed tracking and we find students, t even the top end, te accelerated s...

Math course. quickly, is someone going to measure the outcomes here to see whether math scores go up or when they don't go up and blame the tests as far as we do, there's something wrong with the tests, culturally biased? or is someone going to be held accountable for the ideas? >> i think we're not going to make excuses for bad scores. we can look at the changes that we have made. there's schools that are detracking. we find that students, the top end, the accelerated students, are performing better in high school when they come out of those tracking situations. we look at the data. we have a...

Numbers? >> you know, i didn't write this paper. i support this paper. it was adopted before i became president. i teach history and math. today i was with students. they were sharing stories of mathematicians through history. all of them fought against barriers to be successful. that helps students. the other thing they're talking about is learning different ways. for instance, when we learned -- when i learned to multiply, there was one way. we followed that pattern and had lots of steps. we know there's are other algorithms that work. the original historically was determined to be the best ...