How did it become operation varsity blues. You dont need to work anymore. You dont need to study horde or be wellrounded. You just have to write a check. A nightmare. Coaches, entrepreneurs, and celebrities. It may have looked like a wheel hollywood premiere at times. Lori, pay for my tuition, lori i dont really want to go to school. What do you say to your fans, felicity . What prosecutors are calling the Largest College admissions scam ever. Crazed parents doing whatever it takes. Its unbelievable. It is so competitive to get your kid into school today. The parents are terrified. Its parents who are driving a lot of this craziness. A fierce competition. Top schools like yale, wake forest, and georgetown. Theyre pushed, theyre prodded. Theyre in the hands of tutors, coaches, test preparation. You may begin. Its a big money business. Which can create packages that will break a Million Dollars. The real scandal may be what is legal. A side door for rich kid sport. Theres only certain fa
american education is that it does very, very badly for poor kids. as dan marco vits points out comprehensively separates the rich from the rest in an increasingly unequal america. the educational gap between the rich and poor today is greater than between blacks and whites in 1954 when brown versus board of education outlawed school segregation. the american system of education does not provide many paths for poor bright kids to move up, which is at the heart of the scandal of our declining social mobility. finally, let s take to heart some of the broader critiques of meritocracy itself. many people succeed in life even though they do badly on tests. tests are not the measure of one s true worth in life, nor is where you went to college. perhaps the worst aspect of meritocracy is that it allows people who rise to the top to believe that they are better, that they deserve their success,
there is some talk that really the only way out of this mess could be a large settlement, similar to the tobacco settlement that happened with the state attorney generals years ago. that settlement might lead to a lot of mortgage writedowns or modifications for those who are in the foreclosure process. julie: thanks very much. gregg: arizona state university student is now offering a pretty stunning deal. dan marcos son was shot and killed during a robbery attempt last weekend. a gunman taking his cell phone an laptop computer before going in a getaway car. now dan marco, the dad, is making the offer driving the car. take a listen. you give the information that leads to the arrest of the man that killed my son and i will waive my right not to be interviewed by defense counsel and i will work with your
husband is found guilty of murder. hello everybody i m denise koch and here is what people are talking about tonight. a mystery that haunted the family and friends of kayhill for five year, she disappeared, her body never found. but today a baltimore city judge found her husband guilty of murder. reporter: tears of joy flowed as tracy kayhill s loved ones got the news they were waiting for. juries believe there was enough evidence to convict her husband dennis of second degree murder. it has been to hell and back if i can say for the last five years, we re just constantly looking. you don t know where she could be. reporter: dennis kayhill s fiance left the court in tears. the evidence was prejudicial, it was inflammatory and the result was a conviction. reporter: the key piece of evidence was a surveillance vehicle of tracy kayhill s car was being driven after her death and it was locked with an alarm. and dennis was the only one who had it. wherever she s at r
in the left bloc, republicans rallying up support of the main attraction, former alaska governor sarah palin. in the right box democrats getting love from comparison in chief, president obama arriving in minneapolis just minutes ago getting set for his last stop in a five-state, four-day campaign blitz. we re monitoring those events. we ll take you there live, first, let s go to wendall goler from minneapolis? al franken warming the crowd for the second of the five stops aimed at governor s races. there are 37 this year which is unusually large number and evenly split between 26 democrats and 24 republican incumbents but that balance is expected to radically change after november 2nd. the president is determined to try to to limit their losses. vegas was a last stop where he campaigned for harry reid and barbara boxer. the governor s races are more about stopping the being. former senator mark dayton which was best known for shutting down his office after his office issue