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A very serious student a very serious athlete who was very concentrated on doing well in school although he has walked that back a little bit today saying ok yes i did some things in high school them a little bit embarrassed about now but still none of this is true and the u.s. president. weighed in today really really really in his defense of mr cavanaugh wasn't. absolutely it's been interesting that he hasn't cool whites gone after the women making these accusations of have been some tweets in that direction as well but he's very much sticking by his nominee this is a big deal for the republ...

Very high needs, high poverty. we have migrant farmers. it's an old, you know, industrial town that's seen its better days. however, we have some amazing kids. some of the partnerships that i've tried to reach out and help build in our school, a local organization, robert h. jackson center, where we work on social justice. also, a national one in washington, d.c., the robert f. kennedy kennedy center. what we've seen is that students sometimes will, with proper instruction and resources, they can take a project and run with it. i had a student a year ago that finished third in a statewide cont...

All over again. peter barnes has what the president wants to do differently. good evening, peter. >> reporter: good evening, bret. the president and the government agrees the government should give kids in college discounts on student loans but they disagree on how much. the bush administration started all of this to encourage more kids to go to college. right now undergrads who can demonstrate financial need can borrow at 3.4%, but without action by congress next month, students will start paying at the old rate, 6.8%, double. the president has proposed a new formula based on market interest ...

>> bret: now fresh pickings from the split can grapevine. high school english teacher in texas gave a student a zero on an assignment to write about anything he was interested in. anything at all. because the boy wrote about a gun show. the boy's mother confronted the teacher and then put it on youtube. the school district says the teacher accepted the paper and apologized to the student but the mom says she does not feel it was adequate and considers the way things were handled play tanblatant censorship. former staffer david axelrod and robert gibbs who now work for msnbc push back against t...

>> reporter: about 100 other schools nationwide use this program. but there are others that have chosen not to use it. some schools feel it violates copyright laws because a student's legitimate work is their own intellectual property and should not be stor in the database. but a federal judge struck that down, saying that storing papers falls under fair use. other critics say it operates with a guilty until proven innocent principle. >> sometimes people are concerned that it's a punitive tool that assumes guilt. we respond to that by saying, it's a technology, it's a tool like any other, that...