Genetically tinkered with, do you have the right to know, im imran garda, and this is third rail. If you want a future in this country you have to fix k through 12 education. Our schools are not failing, we are doing better than 30 years ago. I could fix the system if people have paying jobs. Wherever theres poverty, theres low test scoring. More focus on education. Therell never be one great way to solve a problem, why should there be one answer. We use test scores to assess kids and teachers. The standards are crippling. The program has supporters. Common core upping the ante. Higher standards is the right thing. A teacher wants to teach. Why do you do that job unless you love to do it tonight we have peter cunningham, former assistant of education, and jessie, a High School Teacher in seattle, the editor and author of more than a score, a new uprising against high stakes testing. Thank you for joining us. Is Public Education in the u. S. Broken beyond repair . Not at all. In many wa
This is third. If you want a future in this country you have to fix k through 12 education. Our schools are not failing, we are doing better than 30 years ago. I could fix the system if people have paying jobs. Wherever theres poverty, theres low test scoring. More focus on education. Therell never be one great way to solve a problem, why should there be one answer. We use test scores to assess kids and teachers. The standards are crippling. The program has supporters. Ante. Thing. A teacher wants to teach. Why do you do that job unless you love to do it tonight we have peter cunningham, former assistant of education, and jessie, a High School Teacher in seattle, the editor and author of more than a score, a new uprising against high stakes testing. Thank you for joining us. Is Public Education in the u. S. Broken beyond repair . Not at all. In many ways its stronger thanst ever been. If you look around you see record high graduation rates, test scores that are at an alltime high. You
This is third. If you want a future in this country you have to fix k through 12 education. Our schools are not failing, we are doing better than 30 years ago. I could fix the system if people have paying jobs. Wherever theres poverty, theres low test scoring. More focus on education. Therell never be one great way to solve a problem, why should there be one answer. We use test scores to assess kids and teachers. The standards are crippling. The program has supporters. Ante. Thing. A teacher wants to teach. Why do you do that job unless you love to do it cunningham, former assistant of education, and jessie, a High School Teacher in seattle, the editor and author of more than a score, a new uprising against high stakes testing. Thank you for joining us. Is Public Education in the u. S. Broken beyond repair . Not at all. In many ways its stronger thanst ever been. If you look around you see record high graduation rates, test scores that are at an alltime high. You see a lot of good stuf
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Barack obamas presidency. All things are possible. If the dream of our founders questioned the power of ourof democracy, tonight is your answer. [cheering] if the answer told by the lines that stretch around schools ande churches. Suppose that are rich and poor, democrat and republican, black, white, hispanic, asian, native american, street, disabled, not pp disabled, americans send a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals with a collection of red states and blue states we always have beene and will be the United States of america. [applause] [cheering] an estimated 250,000 gathering at chicagos grant park on the unusual mild tonight marking what could be the start of eight years in the white house for the 44th president prepares to leave historians begin to assess theo obama legacy. The three leading authors adding their perspective to the newanad terms in the white house. We are joined at the table with april ryan, my upclose view of the preside