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Pregnancy prevention program information. so now a teen goes through that program that's correct data could be shared with other federal agency to know maybe your daughter went through an std prevention program? >> yes, with the regulatory changes that take effect next week. what we have is, shall i say, an amazing change in privacy protections and in the government's ability to troll a personal family and student data. >> just think about some of the programs or some of the things, behavioral issues. right, as teens, as kids, you go through different stages in your life, maybe you were a rowd...

Right now, teachers are observed by their principles, at regular intervals. we need to have peer observations, but we need to know the tool -- there are ten different tools for peer observations, but which ones predict whether the students learn the material at the end of the year. we need to test the peer observations and the principle aobservation observations, and we need to look at the scores and the student data. when you ask the students did you have an effective teacher, you ask specific questions. did the teacher help you when you didn't understand your homework? or what you missed on ...

By their principals at regular intervals. we need to have peer observations, but we need to know the tool -- there are ten different tools for peer observations, but which ones predict whether the students learn the material at the end of the year. we need to test the peer observations and the principal observation. we need to look at the scores at the end the year and the student data. when you ask the students did you have an effective teacher, you ask specific questions. did the teacher help you when you didn't understand your homework? or what you missed on your homework, did they help you...

Practice, but part of that is always looking at not only what are we teaching, but what are students learning? so of course, student data, student learning has to be part of it. what's happened is we're all looking for the fast, quick fix. now tying test cores to teacher performance, even though every single researcher says go slow on this. you can not deal with this issue. having said that, new york -- now, granted i'm from new york, but i had nothing to do with new york winning this. or with them getting the grant. the new york application was amazing. not because of the fight the people wer...

Evaluated based on student achievement and the administration said they looked like and work on turning around bad schools in rural areas and across their states. and the administration said they liked that, too. the problem is that-- >> do you think that that is useful, those are useful moves, is that right? >> sure, sure, less on the turn around efforts of bad schools, i'd rather see those schools closed and replaced. using student data to evaluate futures, absolutely, i'm glad the administration is encouraging that. the problem is that lots of those on the list had those applications up to ...