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2400 elementary teachers have failed the math section of their licensing exams when pearson publishing comedy took over testing in 2014. education officials say they will review the exam to make sure it is accurately measuring a teacher's math skills. jillian: we showed you connecticut public official sparking outrage for taking any not once but twice during the national and commit two town meetings. todd: taking to facebook to write a halfhearted apology but was it enough? jillian: first select woman from connecticut, thank you for joining us this morning. i'm curious how your community has r...

>> what do you say to people who are saying these kids are trying to get out of taking a test? >> i would say it's so much more than that. and while maybe it's possible, that's the agenda for some students, for us that wasn't the motivation at all. we feel like the tests are unnecessary and they use an excess of time, among other things. but ultimately, they're unfair to students to schools and to the teachers as well. >> why? >> why? well, i'll try to be quick about that. as far as students, the tests are very specific to a certain learning style. and it doesn't really encompass the learning ...

To go into graduate school you'll have an advanced test, g-mat or other test and find throughout your life there are going to be tests. we complain about them. i complained about them when i was a student and we don't like tests but there's no other way we found out to determine whether a student is succeeding or not succeeding or teacher succeeding or not succeeding. i don't have a better model than saying we're going to evaluate our kids than through a better testing system. we had this graduation exam. i took it because i would hear from teachers we're having to teach to the tests. i took t...

Even trump's hair was like, yeah, what an eye sore. check this out, sixth grader in illinois is making news for getting a perfect score on the math section of the s.a.t. so on behalf of everyone here at late night, i just want to say, nerd! tonight jimmy welcomes new "america's got talent" judge howard stern. battleship star brooklyn decker. and celebrity chef jann janna delorentes. that's late night with jimmy fallon at 12:35 a.m. >> i love how you say that so your wife is not watching. >> i'll bring her with me. >> celebrities seem to be getting caught up in the super hero. tmz said mila h...

Blame them. in a lot of parts of texas evolution has not happened yet. so you you can't blame them for that. i don't want them to change like the math section. i don't want my kid growing up thinking a gallon is 1/10 the capacity of a hat. >> however, that is awesome. a 10-gallon hat. this much milk goes into a 10-gallon hat, i like that. allison, are you a parent, your triplets are almost 20 are you up in arms about this? >> the reason that texas matters is it buys and distributes 48 million textbooks. whatever they decide in texas is doctrine for the rest of us. one of the supposed proposals...