Thanks so much, kathleen, and welcome, everyone. Its great to see you all this morning. Thank you for attending todays first of two summits on innovation in education. And a special thanks to all of you who are going to present this morning. Were excited and grateful to have so much knowledge and expertise in one room, and i know were eager to hear from all of you. I want to say a quick word about the focus on innovation. This year, i embarked on a rethink school tour where we visited learning environments and institution that are taking creative approaches to education for students of all ages. I continue to travel the country to see the great work thats being done, and ive been inspired by the innovative educators and administrators ive met thus far, but theres still not enough. We need more like them and like you. The reality is that there are a number of challenges and opportunities facing Higher Education, and washington, d. C. , does not have all the answers. Government is not th
This 90minute event was hosted by the american historical society. We have a terrific panel for you today. Just by way of introduction, i want to sort of explain how this panel came to be. And that is that we were all participants in an neh Summer Institute on veterans in society, ambiguities and representations. Think the subtitle there is incredibly important, right . Ambiguities and representations. It represents some of the confusion that might exist about who counts as a veteran, what it means to be a veteran, how that meaning has changed over time and how society has miss understand that change over time. How all of these things connect with nonveterans in society. So the Civil Military divide, which is seems to be growing ever greater. And so all of these issues were brought together in a threeweek Summer Institute down at virginia tech, in washington, actually. And where we explored with about 20 other colleagues from a variety of disciplines some of these issues. One of the bi
We have a terrific panel for you today. Just by way of introduction, i want to sort of explain how this panel came to be. And that is that we were all participants in an neh Summer Institute on veterans in society, ambiguities and representations. I think the subtitle there is incredibly important, right . Ambiguities and representations. It represents some of the confusion that might exist about who counts as a veteran, what it means to be a veteran, how that meaning has changed over time and how society has miss has understood that change over time. How all of these things connect with nonveterans in society. So the Civil Military divide, which is seems to be growing ever greater. And so all of these issues were brought together in a threeweek Summer Institute down at virginia tech, in washington, actually. And where we explored with about 20 other colleagues from a variety of disciplines some of these issues. One of the big takeaways or one of the Big Questions that we were talking
Lets give them a good round of applause. [applause] its a chock full day. Youll start hearing people give you insight to Social Security and a lot of it in depth of the actuarial perspective which are the lifeblood of the Social Security so youll be hearing but the key to this day, in my view and i hope to be here the whole day, is the last session real have a chance to put together a Social Security long term solvency program. Youll hear a lot of the options discussed and to do it yourself. This is an amazing city. I relocated here last july from new york, you might be surprised to think im from new york and what i love about the city is that everyone is connected. Im taking over this morning and my driver says where can i take you and my driver said i told him the barber center. Barbara jordan, theres a center named after Barbara Jordan and i said yes, did you know who she was. He said not only do i know she was but i had a radio show in washington, 50 years ago on the station it doe
What were known as red legs. Jayhawkers. These are kansasians as he admits in his autobiography who feels the kansasans picked on them. To cross into missouri and get their revenge. So hes in an informal j jayhawking kansas regiment fighting in missouri. Then in 1864 he joins the kansas seventh which is the notorious jayhawking regimen. If you were a missourian and i said kansas seventh, you would know what that meant even probably today. And they had such a Bad Reputation for what they were carrying out in missouri that they got sent away from the kansas missouri border. He did see some service in the south and by the end of the war, hes back in st. Louis. Well, what did Buffalo Bills childhood in bleeding kansas and in his youth as a jayhawker in the civil war mean to him . You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Thats cspan. Org history. In 1911, the triangle shirtways factory in new york caught fire and 146 workers died