Kidding. We were planning on doing that. And we saved their teacher and the black Student Union at garfield now is just won the citys human rights award for leading a march first marching to the precinct demanding that black lives matter and then a walk out the day after there was no indictment of Darren Wilson and theyre becoming leaders not just at the school but for the entire city in defining what black lives matter means. Think its all part of this growing struggle. I just want to say one last thing about the transformative nature of these struggles. I want to just end by reading a quick passage if i can. Theres a chapter in here you should not miss which is by a young woman named amber kudlow who went to a school here in new york state. She was the schools valedictorian and does she have the best grades in the highest test scores she was told by the principal she had to give the graduation speech for the school school. She said absolutely not, i dont have anything to say. Im not
Booktv is on twitter and facebook. And we want to hear from you. Tweet us, twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is steven loggy i will be moderating a panel today providing a kind of critique of the war on terror. Im a professor at the Naval Academy and teach forces on American Foreign policy and agent thicks in International Affairs and i have two guests today, although it may not appear that way. Very small. One is urgently on his way. The one who were missing currently is james risen who is a correspondent with the New York Times and a personal who has provided a lot of the story of the american response to the september 11 attacks and since thats the story were discussing today he is a great person to be with us. Provided he were with us. He is on his way from National Airport and should be here in another 15 minutes or so. James risen, im going to introduce him before he arrives. Won his
Ponder and ponder and choose the plausible answer that thismaker considers incorrect, but where you could probably have a very good discussion about what really is the right answer. And the fact is the standardized test is not a good form of accountability, there is only one purpose to standardized testing, its to say we dont trust teachers. The teachers judgments are not worthy, because i think back to before the era of standardized testing we have always had a little built but never high stakes. The idea was you could trust teachers. If you wanted to know how the student was doing, you would go in and ask the teacher elm teacher knows i if the child can read. They see the child every day. Why would you expect the test to tell you more than the teacher knows . The fact is we already havelet odd conditionability accountability today means punish we know what we need to know through nape. Nape does the sampling tests, releases results, in reading and math, for every state, every other y
Report on two decades of academic fraud at the university of North Carolina where student athletes were given fake or paper classes to artificially boost their gpas. Good evening. I am not here because im a longtime north carolinian. Im not here because i am an expert on the specifics at him. Im your because of the heritage that these folks represent and the tradition that the hard work comes in the wake up. Im here of the names im getting ready to say were basics of the state and the heritage is basic to this wonderful work and truly wonderful work that jay smith and Mary Willingham have been doing on behalf of the institution that so many of us know and love and so many of us have been the names of course our Frank Porter Graham and Terry Sanford and bill friday. All of whom believe that a major point i think institution was not to serve itself but these are the ideas within it. That is to say it was not enough to salute when you went by the building. Ui to salute what it meant. I ca
Major point of an institution was not to serve itself but to serve the idea. It was not enough to salute when you went by the building, you had to salute what it meant. We worked on the. Was happening to him here which is the outlying adjunct assistant. Book players and their access to money. And he said, i was talking to a young woman here at the university, who seems to know somethings that were very disturbing if true and i told her i cant do too much to help but why dont you go over and talk to the folks at the south building, the administration building. I did not think about that at that time except that they britt telling me it must have some substance. I was already worried as so many others were about but indications that not all was well. As a sort of a member of the faculty i would go from time to time to the meeting of the Faculty Council because among other things it is a way to find out or should be, what the heart of the academic enterprise was thinking as well as the ad