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Gap facing children of color, setting back the life chances of millions of american kids. based on indicators like high school graduation, math proficiency, teen birth rates, employment opportunities, family income and poverty. the report uses a composite scale of 1 to 1,000 to assess kids' progress on 12 indicators of life success. while the report stresses that no one racial group has all children meeting all milestones, asian and pacific islander children scored highest on the index with a composite score of 776 with southeast asian children faring worse than their east asian counterparts. ...

Doing, we're -- we kind of stink? >> we're number 32. 32% of our students are proficient. and we're number 32 in the world. that's the magic number, i'm afraid. it's a pretty bad one. >>gretchen: when we look at proficiency in high school across the board, singapore 30%, canada 14, germany 13. the u.s. 7. this is in advanced math proficiency. what do we need to do to improve math for our kids >> statistics on the advanced are really important because a lot of people think the problems of education are in the inner city, but they don't realize that schools across the country aren't doing the jo...

Students in all eight wards of d.c.'s public schools have improved. the reading proficiency rates and also math proficiency rates both since 2007. it's real progress in education, but is real progress completely captured by a proficiency test? critics might say that the state of urban public education can't be measured in a graph. joining me now, to talk about this, are two folks who know a lot about d.c. schools, past and present. this is alison stewart, author of the new book, "first class: the legacy of dun mar, america first black public school," for which i wrote the forward. and next to ...

No other choice but to cheat. and that she then turned a blind eye to that cheating while all the time collecting those huge bonuses. mike bowers is a special prosecutor who was appointed to investigate the case. he told me today this whole conspiracy is despicable to inrich themselves, to enhance their careers without the slightest care about the impact upon children. and that beyond the pale. >> that is something that i just can't believe human beings did. >> officials had suspected cheating when one-eighth grade math proficiency class went from 24% to 86% in the course of a year. it wasn't ...

>> it is saturday, august 4th. good morning and glad you are with us. i am randi kaye. we start with wildfires in oklahoma. 100 homes are being threatened. the fires are being pushed by strong winds. the worst is in cleveland county south of oklahoma city. joining me is kelly cain for the oklahoma department of emergency management. good morning. are evacuations being ordered at this hour? >> we haven't had new evacuations overnight which is good news, but we are definitely still watching these fires. they were so dangerous yesterday and we had a couple of small fires that popped up ...