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I know one of the good reasons the tenure developed was for academic freedoms. >> if it was up to me, we would eliminate the department of education altogether. back on the tenured teacher, you have kids case in point, number one, i love kristi by the way, he pushes the independent. you have kids in the state of mississippi and the delta part that are in the 9th grade that read on a third grade level. you have 18-year-olds and 20-year-olds in tennessee that are still in junior high school. so apparently there is a problem and teachers are not teaching. they should be tested. if a teacher fails...

He already has more than 600 hours of videotape. doug shares his favorite techniques with his teachers, sort of like paying it forward. in this video, the teacher asks a question. >> cynthia. >> then calls on a student at random, even calls on the same girl twice in a row. >> the kids really have to be on their toes. >> reporter: in the seventh grade math class, students snap if a classmate's answer is right, stomp if it's wrong. nicely done. number four. read it. >> reporter: it forces the whole class to engage in the answer. 80% of the students here come from poverty. this may be their only ...