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Think we need to folks or than but on the legal side of thanksgiving as well. >> think about tack a picture of your daughter on a rowing machine. >> willie, if i could add one thing about the testing culture, right. we need a next generation of assessments in this country. kids need to be able to sit down and write because writing reflects your best thinking, on the spot rather than go through the wealthy kids get editors to edit their college essays, which is absurd but that's what happens. the way we think about the system is to also connect it to what's the educational infrastructure in rel...

High-stakes testing mostly on sort of very basic levels of math and english that is sort of outside of literature but just these sort of basic skills is keeping us from learning any of the kind of integrated historical, social scientific knowledge in the broadest sense. >> well the testing culture is as highly politicized as the textbook culture is. we have moved away from listening to teachers and listening to experts from our colleges and universities about what kids need when they graduate right? what do they need to be successful in colleges and jobs? that's where the emphasis needs to be....

Prepare in this transition, before kids have the ability, before teachers have had the ability to adjust to it. and so, this is both a calamity of the test prep and the testing culture that seems to be besieging our country. >> yeah, well, one step forward for the s.a.t.s. >> exactly. >> thank you so much, randi weingarten. >> thank you so much. to another college controversy now. many rutgers university faculty members are trying to stop former secretary of state condoleezza rice from delivering this year's commencement address. professors at the campus passed a resolution saying rice does ...