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Student success. it's not an easy subject. but the fact that it's difficult and new cannot be an excuse for not stepping up to the duty to be accountable. we're pretty close to an answer now. there are some instruments that we think are proven and reliable that show how much a student grew, for instance, in critical learning. we'll probably have to supplement that with some discipline-specific measurements, how much a chemistry major knows and so forth. finally there's a dimension we think to be studied in the success of graduates a few years out and maybe more years out, and this can be done ...

Decided to end the strike and move forward with a tentative contract with the city of chicago. that means the 350,000 children who've been out of school during this protest are returning to class immediately. >> we knew that we were going to have to give up some stuff in order to get some stuff. >> over the last few days, the strike got ugly between the city's mayor, who called the teachers' strike illegal and the teachers who called the mayor a bully. >> this contract is a break with past practices and brings a fundamental change that benefits our children. >> one of the main sticking points ...

Chicago teachers union announced teachers are putting away their picket signs and heading back to the classroom. >> people were actually elated to take this suspension of the strike vote. >> with a 98% vote, the union decided to end the strike and move forward with a tentative contract with the city of chicago that means the 350,000 children who have been out of school during this protest are returning to class immediately. >> we knew we were going to have to give up some stuff in order to get some stuff. >> over the last few days, the strike got ugly between the city's mayor, who called the t...

The table. apparently a great deal of progress was made and a couple of back-to-back bargaining sessions. >> we vote for things on the table over the last few days to help each other get to the point where we believe we actually are going to get there so that monday morning our kids will be in school. >> and the mayor, who has been vilified by the unions mayor rahm emanuel put out a statement late this afternoon saying the deal was honest and principled compromise. that's all we have seen. harris? >> harris: wonder if that compromise includes what the teachers union was demanding. >> they were...

Where money is really not the issue. the biggest issue in this teacher's strike by 26,000 instructors involves teacher evaluations. they are objecting to an evaluation system which they say would eventually lead to the elimination to thousands of teaching positions over the course of the next three or four years due to faulty evaluations. they claim they are unfair and based too much on student testing. now, at the same time this all comes on the heels of mayor rahm emanuel, the former white house chief of staff under president obama implementing a new, longer school day. he obtained that by g...