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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 outstarting 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 outspending most developed countries by a long shot. in 2007...

take a rough look. 100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 28 of that 500 won't graduate. a total of 50 won't go to college, so that is half of the class that won't go on to higher education. 50 will at the end 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 and 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 ...

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those closed doors in that meeting with sarkozy and merkel. sure enough, the greek prime minister has done this 180 with regard to his stance on the bailout deal. tell me about it. >> reporter: i think he's done a 360. let me tell you. this time yesterday, the meeting was underway. between sarkozy and merkel from france and germany. on this deal to fix the european economic system, greece might even get kicked out of the euro zone. this all happened late last night. we spent the morning worrying about this. then we thought maybe they have a deal. for the last few hours we're saying m...

there through, of their suffering. he posted a message on youtube, a part of the it gets better project. even if his sadness, jamie was reaching out to help others. this is jamie rodemeyer in his own words. >> hello. this is jamie from buffalo, new york. i'm just here to tell you that it does get better. here is a little bit of my story. december 2010 i thought i was bi, and then i always got made fun of because i virtually have no guy friends. and i only have friends that are girls. and it bothered me because people would be like faggot and they would taunt me in the hallways, and i...