in japan, to become a teacher. so the credentialing, the licensing, is really, really difficult. and what you also see is the teachers will do anything to help this next generation of students. so i tell many stories in the book where it will be 7:00 p.m. at night, and whenever the house phone rang we knew it was a teacher who was actually i should say calling from the teacher collaboration room that all the teachers went to. because so much of their time isn t spent necessarily in the class room, but it s working together and collaborating through professional development and lesson planning. and in the united states teachers spend 27 hours a week on average in the classroom, where as the average for oecd nations is 19 hours. so that s something that we have to address as well. so they re teaching too much and they re not spending enough time getting professionally enriched and developed? yes. and the other thing that happens
expense of all of the others and that one thing just happened to be the most expensive thing. and so, look, i don t think it . i think it s a reflection of what we value. 7 million jobs are available now. most of them don t require a four-year degree, they require training and yet we are obsessed, not really with education, you know, what we are obsessed with this credentialing and so people are buying diplomas and they are buying their degrees. it s a diploma dilemma honestly and it s expensive and it s getting worse, and it s not just the kids who are holding the note. it s us. we are underwriting all of them. tucker: you re totally right. felicitywr huffman who believed all the nonsense that she has been told for 40 years. we should all listen to you on this. that s it for tonight s special hour. tune in every week night at 8:00 p.m. for the show that is and will always be the sworn
we promoted the one thing at the expense of all of the others and that one thing just happened to be the most expensive thing and so look, i don t think it s a mystery. i think it s a reflection of what we value, 7 million jobs are available now, most of them don t require a four-year degree pay they require training and yet we are obsessed, not really with education, you know, what we are obsessed with his credentialing and so people are buying diplomas and they are buying their degrees, it s a diploma dilemma honestly and it s expensive and it s getting worse and it s not just the kids who are holding the notes. it s us. we are underwriting all of them. it s the one you re totally right. felicity huffman who believed all the nonsense that she has been told for 40 years, we should all listen to you on thi this. that s it for tonight s special hour. tune in every week night at 8:00 p.m. for the show that is the end i ll always be the sworn
dagen: google wouldn t interview you unless you went to an iv. you couldn t get a job intervie interview. it made sense to go to wake forest. it was $7500 a year when i started there. i could major in art history and blow it off and not get not care about the education. not anymore. juan: unlike dana, i think college is very important. dana: i didn t say it s not important. not this important. greg: is where you learn about identity politics, juan. juan: credentialing, especially for low income kids, minority kids, to have a college degree makes a huge difference. you can quantify in terms of lifetime income. dana: i agree with that but maybe my point is this. going to an elite college is way overblown. the importance of that. i didn t have anything. i didn t have any connections, family, no legacy.
great job of streamlining the bureaucracies and going through these claims and credentialing them is a good manner. they just need to refill the debit card so these families aren t going to see their awards cut by up to 70%. congress can t put a date on legislation anymore. these cancers and respiratory illnesses have no dates. everybody s immune system is different. stop giving us five years here and there. we re asking for 72 years to coincide with the world trade center health program. that s what we got in 2015. now we have 72. we want 72 years on the vcf. that simple. anything short of that is a failure. sandra: how did you get involved, john stewart? i lived in lower manhattan so i was involved from the get-go. but in 2010, we had heard that