The education i was on the board of the Charter School became fascinated by what was going on partly because i think education is so important i think it is our best hope for addressing and equity inside it society and breaking that society a multi generational poverty. There was a mystery that i wanted to solve essentially which was what happen when kids got to high School Everything seemed to fall apart scores seem to be improving at the elementary level and i would go into classrooms and the kids either looked engaged but when you went into High School Classrooms it was a different picture and the scores were not improving. Nobody seems to understand why although there has been a lot of attention on the high school problem. When i stumbled upon really, i cant say i solve this mystery myself but i stumbled upon the fact that the real problems in the problems of the parents in high school. Its different than the Elementary School. Once i realized that and i realize that despite all of
I feel at the moment that shes lost on the court, so i try to help her. Thats my job. But first, the nightline five. Number one in just sixty seconds. K r ining us. Beloved disney star Cameron Boyces sudden death sent shock waves across the descendants film universe and beyond last month. For the first time, the stars parents are talking to Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview. I want him to be remembered. And i want him to be remembered positively and to help people, to continue to help people. We got cheated from all the things he was gonna do. Cameron boyce was a shining star in hollywood whose young life would tragically end all too soon. The 20 year old passed away last month after complications from epilepsy. This is, for me, the hardest thing. He was in a place where he was truly happy. I mean, cameron was always happy. Never a negative thing came out of his mouth. Unhuh. Never. He won the hearts of tweens all across the country. That seems kind of crazy doesnt it . Acting, d
The kids all looked eager and engage that when we went to High School Classrooms it was a different picture. No one seems to understand why but there has been a lot of attention on this high School Problem so i stumbled upon and i cant say i solve this mystery myself i stumbled upon the fact that the problems that become so apparent in high school is the way we teach in Elementary School. Can you describe for people who were not usually knowing what is a content rich curriculum look like . Guest first of all it focuses on content rather than comprehension, reading comp should mention comp ranch and skills which really is a universal approach in this country to Elementary Education. He spent a lot of time on reading especially in highstakes math test 20 years ago now and reading that kids are doing is not designed to build their knowledge of that or anything in particular. The ideas idea is to get them to master skills like finding a main idea or making an inference and the theory is he
Welcome to our audience on c span to the 2023 annual James Madison lecture. This year to bedelivered as dr burnett said by the distinguished historian hw brands, a lecture with the uh antiquarian but eerily relevantle, founding partisans hamilton madison jefferson, adams and the brawling birth of american politics. By the way, heres a, an advanced copy of the book um which will be in bookstores soon, i believe, which promises to be a provocative read. Professor brands is the jack s blanton, senior chair in history at the university of texas at austin, which is his doctoral alma mater is the author of over 30 books, two of which have been finalists for the pulitzer prize. And in discussing my introduction, he, he said hed be happy with a brief biography. So im not going to recite all 30 of those titles uh to you, but heres a sampling of them. The money man. Andrew jackson, the age of gold, the First American tr the strange death of american liberalism. What america owes the world. Lone
Bronx, all that and a bag of chips. Hinojosa so a lot of people, when they think of the south bronx, 1960s, 70s, when you were growing up. Right, right, right. Hinojosa . Their image is of a place that was entirely desolate, that was, you know, in destruction. Right, right. Hinojosa but for you, it was a totally different reality. Well, there was that element to it. But i always say that i was very fortunate to have grown up in that time period, because the culture, as far as latino and African American culture, particularly afro puerto rican, afro cuban culture, and obviously African American culture, were in full force in the streets, particularly in the summertime, because we had rumbas in the park all the time. Thats when youd hear people playing drums, conga drums, and playing this beautiful rhythm. Hinojosa now, im going to stop you right there, because i bet some people are saying, they had what in the park . Rumbas. Right, rumbas. Hinojosa okay, so were going to assume that the