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Last month in windsor where the court said the federal government could not single out gay couples for stigma and disadvantage. after the ruling, two arkansas couples went to their clerk's office and asked for a marriage license and they made sure they got turned down. rita jurnagen, the taller one, retired from the little rock schools after teaching math for almost 30 years. facing the very concrete nuts and bolts reality, that because she lives in arkansas, she cannot leave her retirement pay to pam. in the clerks office that day when they went to apply for the marriage license, the clerk's ...

Good. facts didn't add up. >> did one jump out as dishonest? >> i'm wondering when the elementary schoolteachers, the math teachers are going to start teaching math and saying 2 plus 2 don't equal 6. >> thank you. your view. >> i couldn't watch all of him. he was rather disgusting to me. i had to quit. >> any republicans around here? >> had a great delivery. >> great delivery. what did you think of ryan last night? >> i want to know when the democrats are going to define what fair share is since the top 1% of income earners pay 31%. >> 91. >> 91 top bracket like in the old days. we can't affor...

in 2007 we spent over $10,000 per student. versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? we'll ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education. here on this special and in a time essay. we'll examine the roll of teachers, testing and technology and we'll ask the man who spend billions of dollars trying to fix education about how he's spending his money, microsoft founder and philanthropist, bill gates. first, there are two nations whose students consistently rank on top of the world. s...

a country. indeed our democracy depends on an educated citizenry. let's take a look. 100 american kids entering high school, what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that hundred won't graduate from high school, a total of 50 won't go to college. that's half the class that won't go on to higher education. 50 will attends college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 15 in science and 31st in math. what's odd is that we have been outstand...

100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 won't graduate from high school. a total of 50 won't go to college. that's half the class that won't go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. what's odd is that we've been outs...