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Didn't surprise me, but the statistics shocked me, frankly. let me read them. by sixth grade, low-income students fell three grades behind. by ninth grade, two-thirds of learning gap between income groups. what does this tell us about what we need to do in terms of our educational system? >> it tells us two things. one is that what is going on during the school year may not be quite as bad as we're always hearing. it also tells us where we can focus a lot of effort at reasonably low costs. because summer doesn't, the best summer programs, summer enrichment programs that i saw is i went across ...

Doesn't have to go back to school. >> if you're a teen you're at the end of the list. >> we talked a lot about the stimulus and other things to help adults get back to work. what's being done to help the people who fall in that category? >> a congressman in illinois is putting through the legislature employing the youth for the american dream act. this act, $8 billion towards basically encouraging employers with tax breaks and subsidies to employ more youth, employ more teens. up to the age of 24. summer programs, job training, and lots of parks. get them to work in the parks or afterschool pr...

The first day of school, they go take a field trip and where do they go? >> they go to a college campus. i mean, the culture we create at urban prep is completely and totally focused on these guys going to college. every morning, the students recite a school creed which starts out by saying that they are college bound. so they really every day they believe it, they live it. they go to northwestern university during the summer programs, before their first day of school and spend the day there hearing from administrators and teachers and other students so they start already when, you know, at th...

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