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The message. why is this different from book burning? >> it is quite different from book burning and here's why: because we study about george washington in our history books. it's important. there is a really important piece here that research has shown that black students before taking an exam when having toki identify their ethnicity score lower on tests. this is doing that to them every single day when they walk into school. do we not want to help the black communities do better on tests? yes, we do. >> tucker: this is insane! >> it's not insane. there science reasoning behind this! >> tuc...

Well. >> the schools are not doing well because our society is not doing well. the schools that you're describing where there is real failure, they're very often filled with terrific teachers. hardworking principals. they're underresourced. they don't have an arts program because all they're doing is testing. they have physical education once a week because they have to do the testing. and the kids don't have the resources that they have in the tony neighborhood, and the biggest problem we have in this society is poverty. and you can look at any standardized -- any set of standardized tests an...