So happy to have everyone here. Of course we are here to listen to Diane Ravitch. I have a couple housekeeping items, can a retired social studies teacher from San Francisco talk here at one time, is passing out cards on which you can write questions. So our format will be diane and i are going to talk for a little while. And then we will open the floor to questions from the audience. And the questions will come from the cards and that way we will know if a lot of people are asking the same question we have the cards and will know to ask that question. So i would like to give a little introduction i know a lot of people have been following Diane Ravitch for long time. Diane ravitch as a champion for schools around the country drawing on over 40 years of research and experience ravitch is one of the nations leading advocates for Public Education. Her years of experience, working in the government shaped her approach to education and gave her a unique and powerful perspective which she b
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. This morning officials in texas are investigating a dash cam video that shows the arrest of a woman who later died in police custody. The video shows the confrontation between sandra bland and the officers arresting her, but it has several glitches and jumps and appears to be been edited. The video is only adding fuel to the questions from her family over how bland died. Lets do this. Were going to. Dont touch me. Get out of the car. Dash cam video released late tuesday from the Texas Department of Public Safety showed the moments leading up to her arrest. Get out of the car contrary to early reports, the department of Public Safety trooper does not appear to try to pull bland through her window. He does pull out his taser. A struggle ensues and he takes bland to the ground. Much of the interaction is out of the dash cams view. A bystander is also recording. You slammed me into the ground. Do you not even care about t
Capitol hill to brief congress about the Iran Nuclear Deal. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city im randall pinkston, new questions today about the arrest of a woman in texas and death in Police Custody and dash cam shows confrontation between sandra bland and arresting officers but it has several glitches and jumps. As we report from texas, blands family says it does not resolve the issue of how she died. We are going to. Dont touch me. Get out of the car. Reporter dash cam video released tuesday shows the moments leading up to Sandra Blands arrest. Contrary to early reports the department of Public Safety brian ensierra pulls out his taser and takes her to the ground and much interaction takes place out of the dash cams view and a bystander is also recording. Slam to the ground and do you not care about that . I cant even hear. Reporter at one point the officer addressed the eyewitness filming the incident. You need to leave. Thank you for recording. Reporter she was ar
Fuming over the idea. He says the city created the pedestrian plazas for safety reasons, because overcrowded sidewalks were forcing people into the streets. He says the solution is regulating the costumed characters and topless women with body paint. New yorker agrees. I dont think its a solution because this is what times square is. It brings these people to the stores and businesses. You sit down and have a good time. Especially at nighttime you get to see the lights and everything. Reporter but for drivers dealing with stopped traffic at the crossroads of the world, they want the plaza gone. The traffic is terrible. The mayor has to do something with this. Reporter as for the topless women in body paint who sparked this debate, as you can see, they are nowhere to be seen right now or today. Might be because their manager was arrested last night here in times square wanted on an outstanding warrant. It was drugrelated. Live in times square, matt kozar, cbs 2 news. Matt, thank you. Mo
[inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ronald elving. I am an editor, correspondent podcast at npr and also a fulltime, thank you, and also a fulltime faculty member at American University school of public affairs. It is my very great pleasure to. Be here this evening with John Aloysius farrell, jack farrellja to his friends, and he has written his third book. His first book was called clarence darrow, attorney for the damned. I think you should buy that book just for the title. Second book was called tip oneill and the democratic century. And then he turned to Richard D Nixon the life. Because such a popular character. Because of that trajectory i have to ask, what major turn to dick nixon . I was drawn to his story. The original subtitle for the book was Richard Nixon, an american tragedy. And that was struck as it did the Research People like Henry Kissinger and Elliott Richardson would writ