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>> the synapses in my brain connect, then i learn. can you guys stand up and do it with us? >> reporter: the students are teaching class today. the pupils? their teachers. this role reversal is part of a revolutionary program developed by the national urban alliance or nua. how do teachers respond to having kids tell them how to teach? >> they love it, primarily because it really gives them an understanding of the strengths that the students have as well as where the gaps are that need to be filled in. >> reporter: the training is broken up into two parts. first, an nua representative leads a ...

though there is a volcano erupting under iceland's biggest glacier. we're talking about the rapture in just a few minutes with steven baldwin. you don't want to miss that. in syria, the brutal crack down is far from over. a witness tells cnn that four people were killed today after a funeral march in the city of homs. the same city was torn apart by violence friday. today's assault came as people were leaving a cemetery after burying victims of that bloodshed. the syrian government has forbidden cnn from reporting in the country, so we are unable to confirm these reports independ...

he lives in washington. his lawyer argues he's not a flight risk. even though he was arrested on a flight about to leave for paris, the lawyer said it was a prescheduled flight, not a last-minute booking to try to escape the law. >> it's undisputed that the police knew his whereabouts is because he called the hotel, which is the scene of this incident, from jfk airport, to inquire if the hotel had located his cell phone or the hotel advised it had and asked him his whereabouts, which he promptly told them. indeed, he called the hotel a second time, called security a second time to ad...

google's executive chairman eric schmidt about the great tablet battle between apple and google. why it matters who will win. here is my take. pakistan's military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion it must have known where bin laden was hiding. in response, it is using its old tricks and hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. it is leaking stories to favor journalists, all with the aim of stoking anti-americanism in pakistan. having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al qaeda or gross incompetence and the realty is pro...

Off teachers and close schools. now those school administrators are facing a major attack from bill gates. ron claiborne has more. >> reporter: the soft-spoken gates was on the attack over how states are dealing with the crisis in american education. >> the guys at enron never would have done this. i mean, this is so blatant, so extreme. you know, is anyone paying attention? >> reporter: for the past year, gates has been focused on how to make schools and teachers better and how to pay for it. >> state budgets are critical topic because here's where we make the real tradeoffs. if we make the w...