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Correspondent carl cameron looks at bush's uncommon gop dance on common core. >> hours after announcing a political action committee to explore a presidential run, jeb bush got slammed for supporting common core education standards. >> ronald reagan ran on the platform of getting rid of the department of education. we have always ran on the platform of decentralizing education. >> reporter: while kentucky senator rand paul went after bush on the kelly file, bob jindal stirred things up at a political -- >> if he decides to run, i think he'll have a great opportunity to make his case directly t...

Run for president, would you get your mother's vote? [ laughter ] >> so, yes, i will. >> education is an issue bush has long been focused on since his time as governor, and he has aggressively defended common core reading in math standards that are unpopular with many conservatives. 45 states and the district of columbia have adopted those standards and this week students in 36 of those states began taking field tests of the assessments based on the standards. the actual tests won't be given for another year. >> i didn't realize that high, lofty expectations and high standards would be so cont...

He's going to educate us on this this morning. there's outrage on the right and now members of the left. the democratic party coming forward. >> amazing we must be doing something well to tick off both sides. i think the anger is misplaced. and i just watched your segment yesterday, and i think i'm sympathetic with the mom from arizona who has the first grader there who says clearly i know you're going to run through quotes to do that, but there's some frustration and there's a lot of misinformation and lack of information, so hopefully we can help. >> people watching yesterday's show, here's ...

>> can't solve the problems because their problems are cultural. you have 3% of fourth graders reading at the national math standards, 47% of detroit residents are functionally illiterate. 79% of detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. they don't have a fiscal problem, steve, they have a cultural collapse. >> if we really want to solve the poverty problem, do we have to start emphasizing traditional values again, things like two parent households and a good education? let's see what the panel thinks. andrea? >> yes, and what i was surprised to see in this study was that white single mo...

Tangled web. being woven here. bill: j. giles band, isn't it... and a battle is brewing over what your kids learn in school and governors and education commissioners from nearly every state pushing a plan to create a common core of standards for language and math and argue it will better prepare kids for college and the workforce and critics argue, to put our kids further behind students, in asia, and europe. and anita vogel is tracking down the truth. what is common core math, what is taught there. >> reporter: the focus is on math here. and this is a proposal coming from governors from acros...