watch the education nation summit live at education nation.com or of course any of our nbc news channels has a you tube channel on it. join the discussion by using the hash tag, #educationnation. first, the white house soup of the day with the government shut down is going to be turkey chili until they open the government back up. ask yourself, is that turkey really seven days old? we ll be right back. [ female announcer ] pantene volume, with collagen-inspired plumping effect. thick. full. 24-hour volume. get volume from the world s number one haircare brand, pantene. the end. lovely read susan. but isn t it time to turn the page on your cup of joe? gevalia, or a cup of johan, is like losing yourself in a great book.
level four, a partial control of schools where you can appoint the members and level five, where mayors have full control of schools. wherever you land along the spectrum, you have to equate real accountability. we believe that is where mayors have control of the schools. let me ask you what the former student athletes had on. ncaa controversy, should they be compensated more than they are today with the money that is being made off of their life in college? absolutely. it s a very complicated issue. we need to study it. it s time where we get down to the nitty-gritty. this is a topic that the mayor will engage in. i know the advantage of having this discussion. i know now is the time to have it. all right, kevin johnson, mayor of sacramento and got up early for me tomorrow in california time. appreciate it. thank you.
and organized. some of the communities have to get better mobilized and organized. thank you, megan, i appreciate you being here always. i appreciate your voice as a teacher. everybody else is back later. before we go, i do want to tell you something exciting. next sunday, i will be hosting a special education of the show. it will be a student town hall as part of nbc s education nation summit from the new york public library building in mid-town manhattan. we will have a unique conversation with our nation s young people, hearing about their experiences, their concerns and their solutions for the challenges facing our nation s school. we need your help. to inform and guide this discussion, we will be collecting ideas from students. send them to educationnation. students can upload youtube videos for a series we are calling my solution by going to education nation.com. go ahead, invite the students in
messages that are being posted online as we speak. you can join the conversation, our website, educationnation.com. we re hosting a teacher-only live chat. teachers go there and register to join the conversation. over the next two hours, as brian mentioned, we will also keep a close eye on twitter and facebook. on twitter use the handle @educationnation. you may see your comments on the air throughout the next two hours. for now let s send it back over to brian. how are we going to keep it clean? we have checkers, and we are making sure it s absolutely a clean program. all the messages will be spot on. it is amazing. so thank you and we ll be diving back in to both of your realms during the conversation. to start off our conversation, i am joined on stage now by two teachers. sophia is a sixth grade language teacher at indian river middle
to hear the talk, and where these teachers are when i need them, i have no idea. we want to thank our first two educators up here on stage. we will have several more as the day goes on. coming up, as we work on the temperature here in the tent we will shift the focus a little bit and look at how the american classroom has changed and whether the changes have been for good or for ill, and a reminder, you are watching the second annual teacher town hall live from education nation here from rockefeller plaza, here in new york. [ carrie ] i remember my very first year as a teacher, setting that goal to become a principal. but, i have to support my family, so how do i go back to school? university of phoenix made it doable. i wouldn t be where i am without that degree.