the first time you go on the patrol you re going to be overwhelmed. you re doing it for the first time in afghanistan, that s not a good day. woodruff: hari sreenivasan looks at rewards for nfl players who leveled intentional hard hits and knockouts on the football field. ifill: and we close with more on presidential politics with the analysis of mark shields and michael gerson. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundatis. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: this was super tuesday, the biggest single day in the presidential nominating race. voters from alaska to atlanta were choosing their f
the first time you go on the patrol you re going to be overwhelmed. you re doing it for the first time in afghanistan, that s not a good day. woodruff: hari sreenivasan looks at rewards for nfl players who leveled intentional hard hits and knockouts on the football field. ifill: and we close with more on presidential politics with the analysis of mark shields and michael gerson. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundatis. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: this was super tuesday, the biggest single day in the presidential nominating race. voters from alaska to atlanta were choosing their f
you keep talking about our pants on the ground, i guess we ll do that next hour. no, we re doing it this hour. is it? it has to do with the idol theme of pants on the ground, that famous song. pants on the ground pants on the ground thank you very much. they say our globe is warming, polar ice won t be found but here i am just freezing with my pants on the ground. pants on the ground pants on the ground looking like a fool with your pants on the ground whoever thought that would be our motto since i never wear pants. true. absolutely. you re a woman in skirts. at least at work. all right. maybe at home you do. plenty of pants at home. meanwhile, we have a very busy tuesday. rescuers searched through the night in haiti as the death toll continues to rise. it is now expected to top 200,000 people lost. 1 1/2 million people are homeless. violence and looting hampering the delivery of much needed food, water and medical supplies that are getting th
true. so that s to say that. i m not sure that i would oppose the notion of a classical education. i think it s a mistake, and i don t, again, know what the evidence is to say that somehow the far left took over education. where in chicago can we point to a school that the far left took over? i wouldn t even know exactly what that would look like, but the fact is that our educational system today is much as it was 60 years ago, and that is that some people succeed brilliantly, and some people fail miserably, and you can track that success and failure along the lines of traditional privilege and oppression. you know, privileged kids get a fine education. there s no doubt about they always have, and they go on to have their life opportunities opened. kids who are poor, who are the children of immigrants, who are the children of formerly enslaved people dend not to do as well, and that s been true for as long as i ve been a teacher. host: mr. ayers, we ve gotten several e-ma