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Gran grant. >> $# 00 million! >> yes. >> and joining me now is the former washington post correspondent and now author of "the prize" and who is in charge of the american schools. as you sit down, we were both recalling that moment, and everybody applauded, $# # 00 millio -- $100 million, and this is fantastic and it is going to turn it around. what happened? >> it has not turned around and they have doubled the number of students in the newark school, and the charter cools outperformed the public schools, and is it is not true nationally, but it is true in that city. some data came out that i...

Mistakes and make it better? >> first we have to look at transformational education. we still haven't had the conversation in this country about what educational access looks like for everybody. >> what does that mean? >> that means high quality schooling regardless of the zip code. it means young people have the access to skill set, that their minds are being developed to compete. we don't have that high educational access. your zip code determines the level of education you receive. and that's simply inequitable and not something we can can allow. >> i want to hear yours other, but for all t...

School, harlem central, we've had these kids since kindergarten. they're amazing children. i was with them yesterday. he has announced that this school is closing down. >> bill de blasio, the mayor of new york, wants to shut down the highest performing school when it comes to math, who are fifth graders? >> it's not that he wants to. he did. he announced thursday afternoon that those kids would be educationally homeless. >> de blasio said this in the campaign, talking about she has to be stop being tolerated, abled. this is a personal, vindictive attack so the highest performing school in the ...

Rapidly. that's the first take away, the second take away, this is not a problem with poor children or children who grew up in deprived environments, this is a problem across the board in america. our highest performing kids are not remotely getting the results that other countries are getting. we're losing by two to one at the top of this challenge as well as at every other level below it. it's no longer acceptable. we really need to change, fareed, and we need to change quickly and dramatically. tinkering is not going to do it. >> john, you went to the highest performing school in the world ...

That we are striving for and trying to make sure that our young people are prepared. i think teacher evaluation has to include student performance. and working with a poor performing school in new york city, one of the frustrations expressed by the principal was that there was a particular set of teachers that would just say, i'm teaching these materials and if the students don't get it, i'll going to fail them. the job of the teacher is to make sure that you are nurturing each individual student and making sure that they had the skills and tools they need to grasp and master the sub. so we ha...