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Especially low income kids. i want to start off referencing what the article talks about is how american kids fall behind, they call it the summer learning loss in the magazine because of summer breaks, but there's a huge gap when he look at this between low income students and kids from families who are a little better off, why is that? >> well, it's because of what we think of as summer, you know, for my kids, summer vacation involves swim team and some summer camps, things like that. but for a lot of underprivileged kids, there's nothing to do in the summer. it's not even safe to go outside...

Wasn't as intensive. some of the program, they keep kid ins class a long time, have shorter summer breaks. >> and children's zone intervenes even when parents are expecting babies. you also talk about programs in the ninth grade and career academies. >> yeah, one of the clearer problems in past strategies is that we haven't tried hard enough to get people into the labor force. these career academies and various other strategy, they aim to really teach kids not only the skills to get them jobs, but also how to apply for a job. how to convey your eagerness, your enthusiasm, to a potential employ...