best option. but classes online often in isolation have created their own health concerns. this has resulted in frustrated students, struggling parents, millions of whom cannot afford or access high speed internet or childcare, and teachers, working to save a generation of young minds while too often fearing for their own lives. and their health and that of their loved ones. tonight we will try to explore every part of the educational crisis this pandemic created. but let s start with an obvious admission. there are no simple answers here. there is no one size fits all, inexpensive solution that would end the struggle like that. if this were easy, it would have been solved long ago. so let us listen and learn and try to figure out what to do. so here s a snap shot of where things stand. the families of more than 50 million kids rely on public schools in some 14,000 school districts. so let s bring in our chief medical corn, dr. sanjay gupta. let s start with the most basic qu
100 representative American Kids entering high school. What does fate have in store for them . 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. A total of 50 wont go to college. Thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. Meanwhi meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. On a recent international test, u. S. Students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. Overall, the World Economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. Whats odd is that weve been outspending most developed countries by a long shot. In 2007, we spent over 10,000 per student versus the 7,400 average for rich countries. How can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it . Well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in American Education here on this special essay. Well examine the role of teachers, testing ands technology. And we ask the man who spent