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So what has happened is that states like new york rushed to test both last year, and this year, and then used those tests for promotional decisions for kids and for teacher evaluations as opposed to giving the teachers the time to really prepares because this is different. for the past ten years, we have been doing rote memorization in schools, and critical thinking and problem solving is important, but you have to do the preparation, and this year, and evidently the tests for new york state for elementary kids were developmentally inappropriate, confusing, and did not actually even apply the ...

>> and you were able to continue to live in your own world. >> look at you. just stay right there in that bubble. >> if i had been like steve jobs and dropped out of college -- i think there's something to like people dropping out of college in the '60s and dropping acid like steve job said, never done acid, mom, just joking, but there's something that you sort of just regimented approach doesn't always work. >> i think that's why we don't go the china route which is rote memorization. we hope we have better thinkers, critical thinkers and that's why so many worry about teaching to tests and t...

Should know and be able to do in english, language arts and mathematics, in order to successful in college, in a career, in the community. so it creates a set of consistent benchmarks across the country. >> isn't a lot of it about really focusing more on how they think? this is not about rote memorization or passing a multiple choice test. >> one of the powerful things in the survey is teachers, i think 70% of them, the ela and math teachers believe it will strengthen their students' critical thinking and reasoning skills and that is what the common core calls for. >> let me play again, becaus...

They can take college level classes and be confronted with fascinating puzzles you have to solve. and we won't show thank you answer. we show thank you answer after you tried it so you are perceptive what we think the right answer was. >> frank, when did we figure this out? obviously a way we all went to school was in a different paradigm which was largely rote memorization, age desegregation. when did the sort of brain research we are seeing apply to -- even come to be known? >> centuries ago, dylan. i think if you look at europe or artists and how they were mentors to their apprentices, they...

an affair and pay his mistress. edwards' attorney says known was not a campaign donation but a gift from two edwards supporters. joe johns is following the latest developments and he joins us by phone from near raleigh, north carolina. joe, you've been following the twists and turns how this unfolded. what do we know about the specific counts against edwards now? >> reporter: the indictment, as i looking through it, has a lot of the information we expected to be in there, essentially, illegal campaign contributions, a number of counts on that. there's a conspiracy count and the other...