these riots have gone off and os for more than a month. ch they went on before they voteds on the new rules. but the rules did pass. yeah. i think the rules passed because they re not satisfied with just growing a t backyard anymore. they want the more high-techsati jobs that are coming to mexico because of the north american free trade agreement. they want to be part of that game. so even though the specialan interests of the teachers union. remains very powerful and as you can see, very activist, a largen percentage of the mexican population backs the president on this one. v stossel: in america whenrcen teachers unions protest, they are noisy and disruptive. but in mexico, they take hostages. they shut the whole city down. yeah. i think that actually this backfired on them, particularly when they did it in mexico cityt and people couldn t get to the t airport and ahe lot of the bigg boulevards were closed because mexico city already has a bigevr traffic problem. stossel: why
more than that per classroom. competition would create all sorts of innovation. i don t presume to know which innovation will be best. we showed a few tonight, but as it was put, competition is a discovery process. no one knows which innovation is best until they re tried. the good news is that the school choice movement has finally given the blob some competition and a few kids, thanks to thingt like vouchers, charter schools, tax credits now like going to school. i never did. but school is boring! no, it s not! they teach us in a fun way. stossel: so you guys look forward to going to school in the morning? yes! stossel: those kids were at a charter school in harlem. once more parents noticed, hey, johnny down the street likes going to school and he s learning. maybe they ll join the fight against the blob and eventually all of us will have much better
that can actually give them aveo better opportunity for a future in life. so it s one of these perplexing things you re seeing and it shows the warped priorities of the obama administration wait a second. stossel: they have a reason for this. they say that the vouchers impeded the desegregation process and last year, louisiana vouchers increased racial imbalances in 34 schools. i don t know where they re making those numbers up from because over 90% of the students we re talking about in louisiant are minority students. their parents are the ones who are saying, we want our child to be removed from this failing school so they aren t trapped in a place they can t get an education and go somewhere t elsewhere they have better opportunity in life. why should you deny them that opportunity? again, this is the parent saying i don t want my child to beeport trapped in a school that s rated to be failing. this only applies to schools d that are c, d or f schools by
things easier for teachers, often more fun for students. there is a web site called stumble upon which helps peoplee find the best web pages for thee and the head is 24-year-old aaron jen. his latest project is finding new ways that technology can enhance education. you re going to do this through somethingin called a hackathon, which myed wife would say you must be a courtroom if he s doing a hackathon. yeah, yeah. hackathon is basically, we call it a marathon coding events. after i finish stossel: we old people misunderstand the use of the phrase, hack, right? it doesn t mean break in? in the 90s they had that committeation. but today it means creativity and you have a limited times of how do you create an outcome that you want with limitedcr resources? and hackathon, you usually have 24 hours to solve a problem. stossel: you re doing this in miami october 11 and, the winne1
stossel: many americans say public schools, government schools are one of the bestools parts of america. they re a melting pot. we re all in it together. those schools built the country. and i believe that, until i started reporting on schools and now i say government schools ara one of the worst parts of boring. they re more segregated than private schools and much more expensive. the education blob claims schools are underfunded and kids would do better if only we d give the schools a little more o money. this trap shows the absurdity of that claim. spending has gone through the roof. while test scores have barely budged. the scores are those flat lines at the bottom. the blob also demanded smaller classrooms and it got them, butr oops.sroo smaller class sizes did not increase performance. bill gates spent billions