Violent home books were a never ending source of inspiration a way to provide meaning to life at difficult times. One special teacher she says, mrs. Belton helped shanna develop her passion. She says she taught me it was possible to read and write my way into another life. Thats a pretty good description of education in general. Today miss peeples passiones that onto her students. They pour their stories onto the page and she tells them everyone has a voice, everyone has a story worth sharing. They discover their experiences arent so singular, that whether theyre an eat openian refugee or never set foot out of texas theyre not so different and not so alone as a consequence. Shanna works hard to earn and keep their trust and help them find new ways to grow ak academically academically, to reach for their future. In a sense i sell hope she says. I love that line. In a sense i sell hope. And her students are hungry for hope. Most kids are hungry for hope. Since shanna arrived there five y
Screeria nigeria. Libya. And later a look at Global Threats and Defense Systems being developed by the pentagon. Coming up here on cspan 3 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern, live coverage of a hearing before the House Oversight committee on how a small gyrcopter entered in the air space and then later in the morning on cspan a joint meeting of congress from the Prime Minister of japan. Well have that live at 11 00. A press release from republican senator lisa murkowski, chair of the energy and Natural Resources committee offering to work with Energy Secretary ernets moniz. The Energy Secretary was before the committee today testing about the White House Quadrennial Energy review a review that recommends more than 15 billion in new spending and tax credits to modernize the Nations Energy fran structure, which includes millions of miles of pipelines and oil and natural gas and electricity facilities. Heres the hearing. Its about two hours. Good morning. Welcome to the committee. The hearing will no
Class learners is our mission and we answer it in our classrooms every day. Thank you secretary duncan for your advocacy of authentic learning and service for our students and your support of teacher leadership. Thank you to my wonderful family. Im nothing without you. Thank you to kayla, my student to the texas delegation and to my administrators. [ applause ] finally, thank you to the talented passionate and remarkably goodlooking group of state teachers of the year with whom i am privileged to join today. Each of them is a study in excellence and each of them is a representation of what a great teacher is. I am honored to stand here today. As a teacher of refugee students, i have been privileged to see Public Education through the eyes of students from countries as diverse as berm a, somalia, iraq, and cuba. Being here today makes me think of my student. She was a shy teenage girl who had little formal schooling and much suffering in her native berma. One day a snowstorm shut down t
Used. And the reality is sometimes it does go in the wrong place. But we find it collectively, and then we bring people to justice, either through the and people are actually going to jail for first time for corruption in the health system. In many countries around the world. Theres actually really exciting to see this is something that these Health Programs we dont talk about much has driven accountability in a way that really never existed before. Doctor let me ask you a different version of that question. We should really care about corruption when our dollars are on the ground. But we should frankly care just as much when our dollars arent on the ground because we wont need to use as much money if the systems arent efficiently run. In those cases whos the right Government Entity to try to build that capacity . Is it our Global Health dollars or should those be reserved for programs or other pieces of the state department who are more in the business of working with governments at l
But as youll see, hes not like any other owner of a big time American Sports franchise. Hes an adrenaline junkie with a few unusual toys. See . [gun clicking] and he owes some of his fame and fortune to a bevy of party girls. Frankly speaking, i like women. Coal has made jim rogers and his company rich, and thats why we were surprised to hear what this power baron has to say about what coal does to the environment. You know, there are a lot of people, many of them in your industry, many people that you probably know, who say that Global Warming is not a big problem. Its my judgment it is a problem. We need to go to work on it now. And its critical that we start to act in this country. But if its so critical, why is rogers still building new coalburning power plants . Welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. Im steve kroft. Politics and business can be strange bedfellows. In this episode, we have a report on a billionaire walking a fine line between the russian government and american professiona