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Get into college. How great is that . This past june, 100 of the graduating senior class was accepted to fouryear colleges and universities. All right, the question we have how do you do that . And what can other schools learn from the new Heights Academy Charter School . Here to discuss their approach to education christina brown, executive director of the school, and milenny then, a latina instructor from the school, teaches italian. Ill hear about that in just a second. Because that is something that it sets the bar high, does it not, for other schools. It does. Is it at the point where you...

Reading it could kick up a lot of sand but as it happens the top five most designed common reading for a College Freshman was also a book about the obstacles overcome by an immigrant in the shorter which offers a harrowing account of a 15 yearold honduran boy who makes his way to mexico and across the texas border at laredo the book contrast that his journey is written at a level appropriate for fifth graders. So welcome to the launch of the new edition of beach books this is signed by colleges and universities to their Incoming Freshman classs summer 2014 and 2015. We have speakers to break a...

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This would be the traditional notion of Foreign Affairs and national security, the isis has been able to use new capabilities and new technology, but thats only consistent with and complementary to the massive amount of land that they now govern in parts of the world. So first of all describe how those two pieces of ice is work to make as successful as it is, and can challenge me on that notion that land, that im in the 20th century world. Well, landed both isis strength and a vulnerability because it means that it is possible to attack them in a way that wouldnt be possible if they didnt have...

Will open it up to discussion at the end. Their books will be on sale at the end and they will be available for a picture and discussion. To start with my good friend doctor Jessica Stern and she has spent a career in counterterrorism and thinking about the threat that this nation and world faces with government physicians and academic ones and she is now a lecture at harvard university. One of Time Magazine theories innovative winners and is the author most recently of isis and thats a book she will talk about today. Bruce schneier is the security technology. His latest New York Times bestsel...