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Was a well timed act, and pat is right: the dominant force in america is none of the above. the desire for change is huge. the desire for compromise and conciliation, to resolve our first school problems is all pervasive. people want change. they want alternatives. they are sick and tired of the status quo the. >> why would they go back to a name, clinton, or a name, public, that was in the news for the last 20 years? >> because hillary clinton over the years has really gotten a positive image. there has been little negative about her. look how popular bill clinton was. the clinton name is bet...

Do you think parents can really take on that responsibility of making sure their kids do better in school? are they equipped? >> listen, we are not talking dark dash i'm not expecting these kids to write the magna cart tafplt abc's, 1, 2, 3's, i think every parent can just about do that. we have class force parents. we have after school problems if kids are having problems. we have tutoring problems, we have everything you'd ever ask for except for parents that are engaged and involved. if a parent doesn't care if a child shows up for school, if they show up they don't care if they are asleep ...

What we need is a broad set of measures where your peer teachers, the feedback from students, evaluation of your video, of your classroom activities, all these things need to be brought together to build a personnel system. >> if the remedies aren't greater accountability and more emphasis on merit for good teachers and dismissal for bad teachers and tests, what should we do? >> well, the biggest problem we have in american education is the fact that so many children live in desperate poverty. more than 20% of our children live in poverty. and the best way to improve academic performance would...

>> we're not an organization that says that testing data alone is what is the measure of teaching excellence. what we need is a broad set of measures where your peer teachers, the feedback from students, evaluation of your video, of your classroom activities, all these things need to be brought together to build a personnel system. >> if the remedies aren't greater accountability and more emphasis on merit for good teachers and dismissal for bad teachers and tests, what should we do? >> well, the biggest problem we have in american education is the fact that so many children live in desperate ...

in 2007 we spent over $10,000 per student. versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? we'll ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education. here on this special and in a time essay. we'll examine the roll of teachers, testing and technology and we'll ask the man who spend billions of dollars trying to fix education about how he's spending his money, microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. first, there are two nations whose students consistently rank on top of the world. s...