when you look at science classes, particularly in high schools, you have the lab component. there s an exploration of learning. there s a reinforcement of the initial instruction that took place either the day before or the period before that. i think when you look at that type of evaluation system where the educator is evaluating that child about that hands-on experience, they re fully evaluating that whole child in that moment. it s not just this touching on the filling in the bubble, limited thinking, that skill and drill, that may have occurred the day before that they re responding to, to prepare them for that assessment. can i also suggest this, this we learn from science. failure is the only way to learn, right? in a lab, i mean, this is part of one of the things that makes me made it tough for me to do science. i m a perfectionist. you got to fail, fail, fail before your experiment works. what concerns me about about the high stakes testing and the way
an event that enraged the catholic church was interrupted by an abortion protester. it was a speech by health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius at georgetown university. let s listen. having spent my entire life in public service i spent my entire life in public service [ cheers and applause ] cheers of support there from the graduates. the church had blasted georgetown for inviting sebelius not because of the obama administration s position on abortion, but church leaders instead were angry over sebelius support of a law requiring employers, even religious institutions, to provide birth control coverage. the most hyped stock offering of the year got off kind of to a bumpy start. shares of facebook jumped more than 10% in the first minutes of trading, but then they started to go the other way. at one point the stock was hovering around an initial point of $38 before rising again. alison kosik has been watching all this at the nasdaq market site. alison