Education, and its enemies, thats sour show tonight. I our show tonight. John biggest education controversy this year over common core. The supporters say this is eye single common standard that tells parents, in every state, this is when your kid ought to know, some Union Teachers are upset. They are crippleing our students education, and joy of learning, common core standards they mus conta ly struggle. To push themselves to levels that are not developly arope yeahappropriate. John no say common core support supporters. Life is full of measures sticks, how smart we are, how fast we are, how well we can you know compete. But until now, it has been hard to tell how well kids are coeteing in school, and how will they will do when they get out of school, that is where common core standards come in. John here is a mag problem. Compose, and decompose numbers from 11 to 19, to 10 es, and further ones by using op jecing on or draws and record each. That is my wel produceer. Asking people to solve a common cormaccore smack seem complex, no kidding. That is a problem for the kindergarten students. Robert of institute said common core is a good thing. Helping American Kids compete. Cory said no, it is just more central planning, it will fail, again and again. You are from a conservative group. Common core . Why . You have to remember what led us here. We had 50 difrent states and standards and tests. We saw was a dumbing down employee saw it in south bronx. Kids counting on fingers, then they get test results back they were level 3 and level 4. I knew they were not as good as test said, but that bar kept getting lower and lower. John the no child left behind, we better lower standards . There was no reason for a state. To do that, if i have to prove my kid was proficient but i set the bar what do i do . You set it low. You may not like common core, but remember practice what what brought us here,. Here,. John now we have central planning. , i am not sure i agree with central planning, you had front states raceing to the trough to get the fed money, i wish it had not happened. It i ease fo easy to say how john some are saying we remember in but now we want to be out. Indiana, oklahoma, south carolina, mo missouri, louisiana. A. Right now in america, there are professional Development Going on, new thing will come in to classroom, principal will told miss nelson, here is how do ou it now. She will smile, and she will say thank you. And shut her door, and do what she always does. She is a good teacher, if a principal cant get her to change practice, i dont think that barack oba will have a better chance. That is the problem that common core came with a package of things that requires to get classroom with teacher, federal government requireed stateo make those test matters for teachers performance, she said, would be sayhame if something happened to your state money. They would have common core, because the feds are piper calling tune. John a question some first graders get. What is 32 minus 12, 20, right . But not under the new common core method. Why are they doing this backward method. This man trained in Nuclear Engineering does not understand. I do not understand. He was not alone. This is how you arrive at t e answer. That is insane, why so many steps. Why does it have to be so complicated. And third greaters. 426 and 17 by breaking apart numbers tha make it 10. What . We gave energy another shot. You are looking lost. Why would you break it down that way, that is 4 steps more than you need to get to same result. Make sense. No, that is ridiculous. Now, i know why he had trouble in mag, which i had to pay for math tutors. John a lot of people are saying my kid does not like math any more. Y would say that not common co, i saw equations like this every day in my mac math textbo. It is not. If you look at cmon core, it does particula said to do what ricky was doing,ells kid, to have you play all these number games before you get to standard alga rhythm. John there has to be a better way to learn, these are not idiots petitioning it. Well, assumeing too much. John like your twitter account background, you have bart simpson saying, i will quit blaming common core. That has become a whipping boy. Neil but central john but central pnning should be a whipping boy. For example all cars have a standard. You have come to accept it with cars. And food anduilding codes. Im going to one up your car example, one of my favorite ways to common core henry ford response with model t, you can have any color you like, so long as it is plaque, that is yo blag as you can have any curriculum you want so long as your kid does good on tests. One big criticism of common core, central planning, who buys textbooks, who hires teachers in local school districts. John government. Behat as it may, federal government is not telling you who should teach your kid in your local school district. The Gates Foundation is, they set up a committee to review those textbook to fit, com commn corps. John you say Gates Foundation is a scheme with america, that comes with money, the eduecrats accept it. In 1833, tim was not standardizeed in this country. John that is good. And you know why, railroads s gave up standard time. John the tie to dom common core . Standards arrive when we need them. If dom op core goes away tomorrow wellave other horrible international comparisons. John why not have choice . Parents would figure out which schools taught well. Im a big choice advocate. It sounds like it. It makes me nervous, you can have choice in certain things, there is a low price to pay, if somebody chooses badly, you dont get a second. John but they get no good choices now they are stuck in a mopoly. So where is conflict beten saying we choice but everyone has to build a car to a certain safety standard, if you want to run a school there are certain conditions to meet. John on street we found one person who liked it. The concept is good. A teacher has been teaching common core. Once people get comfortable th it, they wont remember the way it usedo be. Can you imagine why they are frustrated. Absolutely. John nother problem. Subprabgz woul traction subte minus 4 3 left. If you 7 minus 4. You are showing h he additio. Joy . This illustrates, were talking about standard this is problem with calling this set andard, it implies there is something good about it. So Safety Standards are different. That is a different level than walking into a classroom, and saying we know more than you about what your kids should learn. You are uncomfortable describes the level that kids should be able to get to ed keyineducational. I am comfortable saying it fo my own children, not saying i should be great education i look at common core as a all but saying due core knowledge. Get science and history. That is great thing to say. There are 57 words say they should have a great curriculum, but they dont provide it. We cant. Were not allowed by law. Thank you. You with tweet with that hash tag back t backtoschool. Coming up better ways in my opinion, to learn. Also, cost of higher education, what this girl did to pay that cost. Music hey there starting your search for the right used car . I am, but i dont want one thats had a bunch of owners. Well, our teams on the lookout for oneowner cars. [pk, peck, peck, sous like morse code] found a great car. Low mileage. Oneowner. It takes years to learn woodpecker. Only one site has a free carfax report for every car listed its perfect start shopping at the new carfax. Com hey, jennar fuzz mike trooawwwwww scram g. 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He said it was revolutionary, said he wanted to be called education president , and camera followed him into a classroom. Does this look familiar . 7 years before president bushs National Education strategy, president reagan punched something similar. I wonder why that of needed, done president carter restore excellence . We will open up first time, some 0 subtio 0 substantial benr our country. John promises to fix americas education problem. I am determined well cut out unnecessary regulations. John please, for 40 years education bureaucrats added unnecessary forms and applications and red tape, education reform like an itch that reformers cannot scratch. And why should say, new education reform brings them money. And since reforms never work all right reform creates a need for more reform, and more money, america spends 3 times what we spent when jimmy carter fixed problem by creating the department of education. Trouble money no improvement. Improvement for professional education researchs, money comes from government and foundations and army of these ed youcrats eduecrats found work at lobbyists. So great a mass of these specialists cannot be kept idle, after 40 years of failed reform they brought us another common core. I believe common core state standards may prove to be move important thing to happen in america. This will work. They say, fergieing for said that world of spreadgation reform is a ferguson said that the world of education reform is a cozy fraternity, they feed off wealth of the bill and mel inda Gates Foundation, and common core would not exist without, that bill puts ni sleep, so we will listen to melissa. Saying that common core. These are what i need to know mytion students learn this year. Those are standards only an edid youcrat could love or understand. One side fitting all may be a mockery. But experts one size fits wall is ideal, they find choke with charts, graphing. 300 Million Dollars keeps a lot of experts busy, this money down the drain, allows common core advocates to say, that the federal different of education cannot produce those common core standards, our nations ed youcrats from deuceed them, but this is without a difference, now school year begins, common core will be tested. Then, new tests will reveal, oops, they are still not learning, they will come you were with a new national reform, this one with teeth, high stakes consequences, a new president will fun it with new money, and declare it is a national priority. She will want to be called educational president too, the free market may overcome the educrats and the government, new and better ways to learn are appearing millions of people have mastered a language by playing a game on their cell phone, a free game. Languages are split into bite size skill skills that feel like games, you lose a love when you get somet wrong. When we return. Other better ideas, tools that make learning fun. Of. John do you want to learn a language . Go t school or and take a course, or download this phone application. Lguages are breaking down to if you like games. Duolingo teaches you to read and write and lien and weep. It does, and it works and its free. 25 Million People have used them. Many say that it is better than a college course. John the Computer Programming gives you instant customized feedback. And its a better way to learn. Thanks to new technology, all kinds of good things are happening in here to tell us about it is my next guest. Its a really interesting model that they have at duolingo. Not like something that i can with any other company. What they do is once the students have developed the skills and the language, they allow learners the opportunity to translate douments like menus and more things and then do a presentation companies. John or something having to do with robots . Robots . Yes, buthis isnt something you may not have seen. Its a robot thats in a classroom and it may be where the faith ought to be and thee3 kids can then communicate with a teacher at a distance. The teacheran view the kids and their work through the ipad and its a fascinating sort of alternative although it is a bit creepy. John some companies most excited about interactive education are like this one this is how you sound out a word. What is exciting is that its a completely interesting system. That has to be better than any classroom instructors. What we see with this instruction is that it can do a much finer level of analysis and onthefly adjustment for every3 individual child who uses a. And its also something estimate that as an pplication that i havent had here. With these applications and the best ones that we see on the market today, we have in them adjusting in realtime. And maybe that is advancing at a student can go a little bit further and this gives a good review from us because it has lots of things that we like to see. Adapting levels of difficulty. John theres another one called mind snacks . Guesstimatehat they do is they have language learning apps and then they have a vocabulary application for kids. This includes a number of different vocabulary games and has the adaptin levels of difficulty and remediation and the best ones that we see are those that are most sensitive to what the learner can do. John we ve reviewed almost 3000 applications, only 10 get a grade a or grade b two. Thats right, we review what has been told is most effective from the usability design perspective. The sad fact of the matter is that there are just not a lot of really highquality instruction on the mrket. John but there will be because they have to compete with each other. You would be surprised at how some People Choose their applications. John thank you, karen. Coming up next, fighting about all choice. Why is this so important . Because i have a 12yearold graduating from the sixthgrade and she cannot spell the word girl. She cant musical chairs. Fun, right . Welllllllll, not when your travel rewards card makes it so hard to get a seat using your miles. Thats their game. The flights you want are blacked out. Or they ask for some ridiculous number of miles. Honestly, its time to switch to the venture card from capital one. With venture, use your miles on any airline, any flight, any time. No blackout dates. And with every purchase, youll earn unlimited double miles. From now on, no ones taking your seat away. Whats in your wallet . John this line goes on and on. It goes around the block. People lined up because they hoped to help those kids escape bad run schools. And thousands of parents hope for one of only one of a few hundred spots. Here are some of the winds. John this woman just realized that her grandson while we pay. Shes upset, but she tries to comfort her grandson. Their hearts and shouldnt be token, says that the of the American Federation for children. And i agreed with her, but she says that choice makes things better. Yes, it can make things better. But in education, it means that we are setting up children or they are competing against each other. And it is the schools that do the choosing. We see a pattern as the Charter Schools are pushing out students who have special needs, students were englh language learners. The reality is that most in this country take the kids that are doing poorly in the sools they were assigned to. And all of the rents, all they want is greater choice for their children. The more choices they have come the more competition they have treated but also the better learning oppornity for the kids. Let the parent tech. We are not letting the parent make all choices. There are certain choices that are not on the table. Its not just stay and improve your school but theres no choice to reduce this. It is the choice to pull your child out and try one of these other schools. The reality is there is probably the greatest array of choice and the districts in which there are a lot of choices for parents is public and it has actually gotten better. But the reality is when you give parents choices they make good choices and are happy with how the kids are doing. If theyre not happy come in a change to another school. In every area of our society, choices work in. We need parents to have the power and the opportunity to transform their schools. You show a line of parents waiting to get into a school and i can show you a line of parents waiting to save their Public School from being closed down. There has been a push by people like yourself to promote choice and push those out of the public system and into a freemaret. The reality is we have been stuck iin a factory model of society. A lot of the choices are proliferating with the innovative teaching and learning. And some of the most celebrated ones emphasized Test Preparation and the problem is the more we emphasize the proliferation of numerical options, the more that we drain resources away from the public systems. It needs to be robust so they can take anybody who walks through the door. Lets look at the Charter Schools who claim resources dont matter and its not about money and yet they spend more money for people tn the average person. But what for . The reality is that most parents choose dont haveas much as the traditional schools. We arealing with the question that is staring us in the face. They ar providing all children with what we know to be the resources that they need. How much money one particular school . I dont have a number at the tip of my brain. But if this country, we have enormous diversions as with what students will get in school. John you dont want to name a number. Are you implying that we are spending less on schools than we used to enact. I understand that there are ways in which School Spending has increased. Some of us includes spending enormous sums now. And theres not all the choices on the table. And we dont have a choice. Coming up, fixing what is wrong with education. And what this College Student does to pay for her ridiculously expensive college. John the cost of college is now absurd. In some places, 50 or 60,000 per year. Over the past 30 years, inflation was 160 . We are upset that Health Care Costs are more. 400 . College tuition, 750 . And why would that be two. John because of government handouts. Government increases financial aid. The president seems to understand the relationship. We cannot just keep on subsidizing skyrocketing tuition. Government subsidizes high tuition by throwing money at schools. What is weird is during the same speech the president says we cant keep subsidizing skyrocketing tuition and he also said that. My administration is increasing federal student aid so more students can afford college. [cheers] [applause] john hello . Dont he see the disconnect . I think that he does, but he still panders for votes by giving your money away. He also told young people that Student Loans, dont worry about it because we will take care of it. Lets tel other students that when they graduate, they will be with out to pay only 10 of the income on studenloans. And all of their debt will be forgiven. John sure, free money, debts forgiven. Its not the politicians own money. The only good news that i see is that some students have gotten wind of this. Belle knox in debt. Should we forgive all college wounds if we forgive student deck him in the same thing that happened with the mortgage crisis is going to happen and create john it invites people to behave badly. And the audience knows that they should be more knowledgeable about College Costs because she became a controversial new story after it was revealed that she worked as a explicit movie star. 60,000 per year. So shes here to tell us why she chose this make the money. Why did you . I was 18 years old and i didnt want to be saddled with 240,000 in loans by the time i graduated college. I didnt view that as a Sustainable Way to with my life and i didnt think it would help me in the future. So i wanted to pay my tuition outofpocket with employment being the way that it is and how hard it is to find a job, especially as someone with no skills set. I turn to adult films and it has given me a wonderful life economically. A lot of people are repulsed by the idea. One hostess said from the view, my heart breaks. Another described you as a confused little girl who took a shortcut to blame. Me taking out loans to them wouldve been more moral. People dont view adult films as an honest days wage, they think im just taking the easy way out, but in reality im working hard for my money and im paying for college and im not relying on any government loans. Or any government aid. And i think thats something i cadefinitely be proud of. John i think so as well. Nobody coerced you. Youre not coercing anyone. So its not something across to that much. But do you believe that these colleges spend more because of the free money that they get from the government . Absolutely. We have an exorbitant amount of demand for college and that has only grown in the past two years because people like president obama keep drilling it into our heads that the only way to achieve the American Dream is to go to a fouryear institution. So w have this huge demand and colleges can respond by opening up more enrollment seats or increasing tuition and there is no push for the tuition to go lower because the government keeps throwing money at th and so essentially colleges like not lowering tuition because the money keeps coming in and people are always going to keep on enrolling. Expended o things like saunas and mens and womens locker rooms at duke, they pay a rap artist 70,000 to perform there, they pay the College President more than a Million Dollars a year. A little bit of market discipline would do them some good . Absolutely, wee forgetting all the Student Loans and eventually the system is going to collapse and they will be losing the income they depended on for these renovations and the other spending that is just completely unsustainable. Have your fellow students respond to your work two. It is the max,ve had a lot of students bully me and harass me. And i would get harassed. How would people rescue . I was threatened with death, people ran roughshod over me, saying they were going to run me over with cars. Is e whole idea of getting paid for sex that just really others aot of people. And it particularly bothered people because i was using a framework to justify my decision to do adult films. A lot of people dont associate that as moral. John i am glad that you are not borrowing money from taxpayers. Is belle knox your real name . No, its not. No, its not. My real name is mary hi shopping for a used car on the new carfax. Com . Yeah, i dont want one thats h a big wreck. Well, our team helps you avoid those cars. Yeah, doug to carfax, i got an accident report. Heads up on this one moles . They dig up the facts. Naturally. Only one site has a free carx report for every car listed i like it start shopping at the new carfax. Com when folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. But the energy bp produces up here creates Something Else as well jobs all over america. Engineering and innovation jobs. Advanced Safety Systems technology. Shipping and manufacturing. Across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. When we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to rk. Thats not a coincidence. Its one more part of our commitment to america. John people in government love central plannin why dont they learn that it usually fails . It failed drastically in the soviet union and it took 70 years before people have the will and the courage to make a change. It also failed in cuba and north korea. And americas post offices in the government schools. Government monopolies just dont serve the customers well and they dont have the and then to to serve them well. But somehow politicians and others who love government control dont get that. We will hear from a couple of them tonight. Why dont they get a . It dves me crazy because its so obvious to me. I didnt get it until i had than 15 years of consumer reporting. Now, its obvious that the only thing that does serve consumer as well as competition. If you must please you are customers or go out of business, you get better and you try harder and you innovate constantly. We showed some of that innovation beginning in education tonight, things like interactive names that make learning fun. And i reported o Charter Schools that found new ways to make school interesting. You guys look forward to going to school in the morning . Guess. But learning is work . It doesnt matter. Those kids enjoy school and they outperform their peers bylaw. It is wonderful. But that also means it is a crime that only 4 of American Kids have that opportunity. Most of them dont have it because politicians and selfinterest groups wont let them have a choice. Even if desperate parents lined up hoping to win the Charter School lottery that would let their kids escape oberman controlled schools, Union Protesters stood outside chanting dont be fooled. , aboard Charter Schools. They dont want competition. They save competition is not for education. But the opposite is true. Competition gives us better movies, music, it would work for education as well if they just let it. And the Union Teachers dont realize that if there were competition, they would have more freedom and most would make more money andgood teachers wouldmake much more. Americans dont realize howuch government spends on education now. What do you think it is per student per year 25,000 . 8000 per student . It means the government spends about 200 per classroom and that would be alive. And at the correct answer is government spends more than 12,000 per student and that is tition,an 300,000 per class. Good teachers could make 200,000 and could have money left over to hire an assistant. So lets take that 12,000 and attach it to the student. Freedom to send him to any school because the school competes for the money that is attached to his back. More kids could then have an experience like this kid does. School is fun . How is it fun to learn . All kids derve that and we know what works. Competition. What americas cldren enjoy their benefits. That is our show and we will th. It felt like a very long week. Kennedy what you put in your mouth is your business. The federal government isstill talking about the busybodies. And many reside at the fda. Should governmental nitpickers stop you every time you want cherry cheesecake . Just because it sounds gro to you and your palate, we will separate this food from fact and government regulations be done. Its a food fight and this