And the brooks still worth reading. Thank you for your time and good nights been a good afternoon. I want to welcome you on the half of humanity tennessee to the southern festival of books. I want to particularly thank our key sponsors, Metro National art commission, and chrome content, tennessee art commission, vanderbilt university. This session is entitled dreaming america. We have a panel of three authors and three books and our first we will read some, but im going to reduce the authors first. I will begin with amra sabicelrayess. She grew up in bosnia. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the serbs military siege she immigrated to the United States in 1986. By december, 1999, she earned a ba from Brown University and later obtained to master degrees in a doctorate from Columbia University currently, shes a compass a professor eric on the egg working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education plays a rebuilding decimated cou
Now, tonights program is unlike any other president ial debate in history were making history now and its pretty exciting. An independent polling firm has selected an audience of 209 uncommitted voters from this area. The candidates will be asked questions by these voters on a topic of their choosing anything they want to ask about. My job as moderator is to, you know, take care of the questioning, ask questions myself, if i think there needs to be continuity and balance, and sometimes i might ask the candidates to respond to what another candidate may have said. Now, the format has been agreed to by representatives of both the republican and democratic campaigns. And there is no subject matter that is restricted anything goes, we can ask anything. After the debate, the candidates will have an opportunity to make a closing statement. So, president bush, i think you said it earlier, lets get it on. Pres. Bush lets go. Ms. Simpson and i think the first question is over here. Yes, id like
Party. Johnny is my given name. Thats a rhyme children used to scribble in their schoolbooks a long time ago, a time when the school was built, a time when we were proud of being educated. Through the years, weve lost some of that pride, taken our education for granted, and even grown the neglectful. All around us, things have been changing. We have gone from the one horse shade to the space satellite, and now schools have a lot to do with National Security and our survival. Now theres trouble. And we realize the trouble is with brains and training and technology. So, in 1957, a lot of americans began to take their schooling a little more seriously. This is a report on American Schools in 1957, what they did, what they didnt do. My name is alan edwards. Heres the man who is making this report, the United States commissioner of education, lawrence g. You know, americans are used to doing things in a big way. We have some pretty Huge Enterprises in this country. And one of the biggest of
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question has going back to school become the political football of this season lets get to the bottom line. The new Academic Year is off to a chaotic start for americas 50000000. 00 students and their families in many schools that are open for face to face learning some students or teachers have already tested positive for corona virus we need to quarantine temporary shutdowns within days with vague and conflicting guidance from Public Officials each of these School Districts has had to come up with its own guidelines think about that for a 2nd in a country with more than 13000. 00 separate School Districts each one is out there figuring this out all out on its own and thats on top of President Trump breathing down their necks with repeated tweets like this one well today were fortunate to be talking about these issues with someone who has worked with schools and teachers all her life and has been a High School Teacher herself Randi Weingarten is presi
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