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Need to do? let's start thinking about this and go back to the basics with our critical thinking skills. >> i think you're right on the money there. i think so much focus going to a simple test score, kids are many k cramming these answers in their head. great point you make. appreciate you back here. >> dave, appreciate you guys, too. i'm a big fan. thanks so much for having me. >> coming up, head to head to the man who could have been president. former congressman j.d. hayworth wants to take mccain's seat in the u.s. senate. he joins us in the next hour on the controversy pace facing g.o.p. ...

Making better teachers, which i'm all for and so on, but if we looked at what constitutes learning, it's basically about passion. it's not about rote. rote is the killer, and if anything we could change in education would be what i would call the death of rote because we get children to memorize things because we can test that, but we don't want a learned society, and all due respect to korea we don't want to emulate them. we want a creative society. we want a society where kids know how to think on their feet, where there's complexity and contradiction. >> adoptability. >> you name it, all th...

Teacher's doing well, but you know, you have a test score every sing is week. it's number of magazines sold. these guys have test scores, number of people watching. we all have test scores and our kids, when people complain about high stakes tests, our kids have some really high stakes tests that nobody's willing to talk about. they've got to decide who to hang around with. there are bad kids out there with weapons and guns. they have to decide about premarital sex and when to get married and when to stay in school. if they don't get the skills they need to he'd and write and to understand wha...

You wouldn't have a computer looking at the test score. >> it's in favor of the liberals on this one. >> one of the ways you have more competition is the transparentsy and accountability and you have parents who are able to evaluate teachers based on the performance. this will show which teachers are good and aren't. >> i don't think it works. rod page is all of a sudden becoming education secretary and we say hold on. they were cheating. that's what happens. there is no way to come up with a system. i agree with bill. with a you need to do is have competition. >> david: what about the cheatin...

School closings, budget cuts and student protest. we're digging deeper in these stories in the cnn "newsroom" for you. we've invited superintendent of schools, nancy grasmick. schools there are doing well because they've made educational funding a priority. good to have you on the program. i wasn't aware of this until someone from the team made me aware of it that just last year education week ranked your state's education system as number one based on -- we're talking about test score, graduation rates. what do you think you're doing right in the state -- in my home state of mareland right no...