Indeed this was foreshadowed. It is an assessment conducted by the oecd in 24 countries so we are being compared to the countrys you see in yellow. Russias data will come in next year and will be added in and there will be another round of countries that will be added to this database, looking at this every ten years. This first report is a baseline to see how we are doing. It has a lot of sample in it. You can see how many hundreds of thousands are in the database. It is looking at skills in three domains, literacy, numerous sea and problemsolving in a Technology Rich environment, it also has some of what we call employability skills, cooperation, teamwork, persistence kind of skills listed in the assessment as well. In the u. S. The first wave of samples was 5,000. It is nationally representative but not large enough to drill down into some of the smaller subgroups you may be interested in but we have another way of being collected by the department of education so we see they are ad
Disaster worldwide. So of course i do not call for any interference in iraq and reject it, even if it is the United States but friends also should provide advice and support and should play a role in order to bring the parties closer together. They should support their friend when they are in trouble. I mean we need weapons. We need political stand. We need an economic support and the United States need iraq to be a stable country to be secure, to be able to produce energy, to be democratic. All these are american and iraqi interests alike. Following the withdrawal of the American Forces we felt that iraq was left on its own while it was not stable yet or balanced enough and was not yet able to completely move towards a transition to a strong state. This is why at this point the center of power is balanced and situation that is something we need today. The United States politically withdrew in the last few years and they started moving or shifting their attention away from iraq but now
[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] looking and more of our live coverage today, coming up at 10 45, the u. S. Conference of mayors winter meeting wraps up with Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson touching on topics like Cyber Security. They then hear from House Transportation Committee bill shuster on efforts to pass a transportation bill in congress. Also today, live coverage from the and National Republican rantstee, remarks from previous. Party leaders will vote today to hampshire atopew the primary calendar in 2016 while shortening the time frame for the gop primary process. Republican South Carolina senator tim scott speaking at the winter meeting. We will have that here on cspan at about 1 15 eastern. Senator caroltic moseley braun, and others are planning to attend, well anything but has been extended to president obama, among others. No matter what party they belong to, i bet most americans are th
They do community service. Thats Great Community outreach. Each clinic as a Community Person who goes out into the community, promoting care, promoting getting patients to go to the clinic and get the care taken care of. A wonderful model. The staff feels good about the staff feels good. So many other dental assistants are College Educated young men and women. They care. Theres just one or two, if you want to go to dental school, dental hygiene school, we will pay your way if you offer to come back. So their own National Health service. They have their own National Health service corps. I can tell you, im on the board, unpaid as or directors, they want to expand out of state. They are restricted because the ceo is in nba. Anything in that model we can learn from . Yeah, i think we could mic, mic. I think the else and could probably learn as well. But the task we are faced with the is not just taking care of medicaid on dental. So you know, we have to contend with adults, content with p
All right. Jennifer, thank you. To developing story now. A guilty verdict in a horrific local case. A woman is convicted of kidnapping a five year old child from a Philadelphia Elementary School and then sexually assaulting her. Eighths terrifying crime. The case stunned the city. Fox 29s bruce gordon is live at philadelphias criminal justice center. Bruce . Reporter guys, it was a story that shocked the sensibilities of our region. A young woman now just 21 years old accused, tried and now convicteconvicted of kidnappingd sexually assaulting a five Year Old Girl who attended an after School Daycare where Christina Regusters worked. It began with the chilling Security Camera footage of Christina Regusters disguised in muslim clothing snatching her five year old victim from bryant Elementary School. It ends 20 months later with a guilty verdict against reguste regusters. Many people cant imagine that this crime would occur. How could a woman abuse a child in this way . Well it happened.