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Answering them. siemens. sea salts vary in color and taste. one tops them all. adding it helps us use less salt than before in campbell's tomato soup while keeping the famous flavor. ♪ so many, many reasons ♪ it's so m'm! m'm! good! ♪ every day 8.2 million students drop out of school and obama has plan to turn that around. part of obama's plantar gets 5,000 of the lowest performing schools in the country. but to get funding, those

Howard dean, former vermont governor, we will ask him about whether the democrats can pass health care without the republicans and whether that's politically wise. we'll talk to dr. dean in a few minutes. also a few minutes from now president obama will be talking about education from the u.s. chamber of commerce. there you see former secretary of state colin powell. it is essential ly his initiatie that he has put together. the president will be focusing today on high school dropout rates. mr. obama is expected to announce $900 million in grants to states and school districts as part of the e...

Charter schools where students can take advanced and college level courses. so government has a responsibility. government can help education students to succeed in college and a career. government can help provide the resources to engage dropouts and most at risk of dropping out and when necessary government has to be critically involved in turning around lowest performing schools. and nobody has been more passionate about this than arne duncan. but as i've said before, education is not and cannot be the task of government alone. it's going to take nonprofits and businesses doing their part t...

March 1 skpst trading is under way on wall street this morning. investors start the day with mixed news, getting a better than expected consumer spending report for january, but still seeing little positive movement on americans' incomes, and experts say that weak income growth could depress spending for months to come. just after the bottom of the hour now. let's take a look at the top stories driving the day. in chile, 10,000 troops are now in patrol, combatting looting after this weekend's earthquake while rescuers are digging through the rubble, looking for survivors. that magnitude 8.8 ...

Requires more than just transforming our lowest performing schools. it requires giving students who are behind in school a chance to catch up and a path to a diploma. it requires focusing on students from middle school through high school, who face factors at home in the neighborhood or in school to put them at risk of dropping out and requires replicating innovative ideas that make class feel engaging and relevant because most high school dropouts in a recent study said the reason they dropped out was that they weren't interested in class and weren't motivated to do their work. that's why we'...