runs in the port elizabeth townships in south africa where there is an 08% unemployment rate and a high number of aids cases. leaf tells us his program helps an estimated 24,000 children, but the goal of having them attend college, and he just opened a 7 million dollar community center. sdmru met people here who helped you. fund it. fund it. yeah. now as a result it s coming we opened it two days ago. along with seeking investments, the other major exchange? ideas. in this room, for example, the focus is on education. leaf s project is highlighted and educator jeffrey canada shares his story. in another room a session on empowering women which drew rosanna of brazil. sosa manufacturers and sells stainless steel sinks in brazil. because her family was so poor, she didn t get an education, but she was able to learn business skills through a program called 10,000 women. translator: it increased my profit 30%. souza tells us she now funds
the unions and bureaucracy, and even the parents, but it s not working for the kids. reporter: the film follows the lives of five children as they wait for their number to be called in a lottery to determine which kids get into the best schools. an eye-opening moment for guggenheim. i drive past three public schools on the way to take my kids to a private school. it haunts me that we aren t doing enough for every kid. something is wrong in the education system. reporter: jeffrey canada and billionaire bill gates tell cnn they participated in the film because of their concerns. we have a school day that s too short, a school year that s too short and we have lots of teach here s should not be teaching. reporter: and to offer solutions for the future. today the internet gives you that opportunity to watch the best lectures in the world. they re out there for free. if you take advantage of those resources, you can be broader and deeper than any of the kids were in my generat
jeffrey canada and randy wine garden agree. the teachers unions are beginning to understand this isn t just about job protection. it s about children as well and that the world is changing underneath their feet. willie, wasn t this one of the saddest parts of the movie when you saw that washington, they showed the adults in the audience with their arms crossed basically saying we don t give a dam about children, we don t give a damn about anything but job protection. the moment was so telling when michelle rhee said it took me a year into this job, but now i get why this system chews people up and spits them out and i understand why nothing ever gets done. she s not bowing out. everybody should go and bring their kids as well. again, sunday night at 8:00, education nation, we ll take the conversation to the next
the obama administration is convinced, one way to make sure more african-american boys are as successful in school is to get more african-american men to teach them. i talked to education secretary arne duncan about his push for more black male teachers. it s a piece of solution. it s not the only solution. and our students need great teachers of every color and gender and ethnicity and background. but as a part of that mosaic, as a part of that team, we don t have enough black males. that s the disturbing fact. so we will look closer at the education study in just a couple minutes. i will be joined by jeffrey canada, president and ceo of the harlem children zone, and john jackson, head of the shot foundation for public education, the organization that conducted the study that we re talking about. a shocking crime in south carolina. double murder charges will be brought against 29-year-old sha kwan duly. orange county authorities say she rolled her car into a river. her two boys
and we can t put our heads in the sand. i know the chancellor, i know the mayor won t put their heads in the sand, but we need everybody at the table saying, this thing has to change, and we ve got to come up with a better, more strategic plan to improve these numbers. huh. jeffrey, honest people working on this. a swing and a miss. why? what is going on here? why does this feel a bit intractable? part of what i think is going on, there are two big theories in education. one is that the answer is improving schools, and we are real believers in that, you ve got to have accountability, you ve got to have data, you ve got to make sure you can close lousy schools, get rid of teachers who aren t performing well. we think that s a basic and another theory that says you also have to surround certain kids, not all, with wrap-around supports so those young people will be able to not only have good schools, but get the other supports they need. we believe in both things. and we think that