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And information snowden had access to was shocking to me. I would read the latest one and think i never knew that was going on. So this 29yearold contractor in a remote place gets the stuff the chief legal officer of the stando cia couldnt get to it. Host and do you think it has created a good debate . Guest i can there meta data and the phone records were valuable. I dont think this would have happened with the disclosures. But he disclosed so much more that had nothing to do with america and the american constitution that i think it is hugely damaging. Host do you think it is damaging becaus...

Here is the troubling statistic. If you look at the lowest quartile of income, only about 8 of children in that category ever get a College Degree. Upper look at the quartile it is 85 . Differentialomic between a College Degree and not a College Degree, we are at real risk if we have not moved far awn the path to creating caste system built on the economy. We are becoming more and more left andengland we fought the revolutionary war to defeat to build this land of opportunity, this upwardly mobile society. We are losing that. Timeesponsibility of our is to expand Educational Opportunities to i...

College graduates in the u. S. Strongly agree to all three . 14 . 14 . By the way, about half of the room here raise your hand. You got lucky. You take advantage of your education, perhaps in different ways than others. We also found three other items about learning and experts initial experiences. These tell your odds of being engaged in work, a slight relationship with wellbeing, not nearly as powerful as emotional support, but that you work on a longterm project that took a semester or more to complete. This sounds similar to the findings i just share with you, that you had a job or or you ...

When it resumes shortly, as i said, about ten minutes from now. While we wait, more on education now as the new school year is just getting underway for many School Systems around the nation. We look at challenges facing Public Schools in a discussion on this mornings washington journal. Host guest at our desk is the director of the National School Boards Association. As we dive into the topic of local School Boards and todays education debates, first, tell us about your group and its mission. Guest well, the National School Boards Association really represents our state associations of School...

To. One is theres a changing social compact between companies and the work force and companies are increasingly looking for individuals who have some important technical skill which is why Stem Education is so important. We were fortunate to see an 8. 6 increase in our enrollment of students in engineering programs and i think students are realizing that skrg these skills is important because its what employers are looking for. Were talking with james linder, the interim president of the university of nebraska lincoln, part of cspan buss big 10 college tour. We kicked that off this weekend. We...