Next, profiling three American Students who moved to three Different Countries, finland, south korea, and poland, where education has taken hyperseriously. This is a little over an hour. [inaudible conversations] hello, everyone. Very boisterous crowd of avid readers of education books. Everyone, if i could [inaudible conversations] call your attention to the front of the room. We dont get this animated creed for books about education. Ill chalk that up to a great book and amanda. Im rachel white, the executive Vice President of the new America Foundation, and its a pleasure to welcome you all tonight. If you have not been here before, this is new america nyc, our new york outlet, a place for story telling and bringing policy stories alive for different audiences, and were the out let of a think tank called the new America Foundation that works across a range of issues, everything from health care to education, foreign policy, technology policy, and thats just a broad source of what we
First of all, ive never been so excited to take a test, ever. You took the test yourself . Right. Which they didnt want me to do, which made me want to take it so much more. They never had a reporter take the test, and they sometimes reuse some of the questions. Theres a whole security question there. They dont want after rewrite all the questions every single time which makes sense. I had to sign an affidavit swearing i would never reveal the exact questions, and get it notarized which was nostalgic. And then i could take the test. Likely theres a bunch of questions they had made public so i could share some of those, but i went to this place and i sat they had some poor woman making sure wasnt going to cheat or anything, for hours she sat there. It was the weirdest thing. It is the only time in my life i took a standardized test where i had to actually slow down and do that thing that as adults sometimes dont do enough, thank. I had to say, wait wait, what is asking me . I had to com
Lurch breaking news, a highspeed chase across part of Contra Costa County ends in a shooting. A suspect hit and wounded. Tonight police are still on the scene. Good evening and thank you for joining us. Abc 7 News Reporter is live in martinez with the latest, lisa . Reporter this is a very active scene and its developing right before my eyes. Take a look behind me. You can see a very Large Police Presence here near martinez and highway 4 in 680, the closest were allow the to be to the shooting scene. Its a block away at falling star road. This happened around 9 45 tonight. There was a highspeed chase through east Contra Costa County and it ended with shots being fired and i believe one person was injured, taken to the hospital. It is not clear who fired those shots. We are getting some reports that it may have been involving a Police Officer. Were getting other reports that it may have involved a juvenile of some kind. It also does appear the police appear to have one person in custody
Thank you, developing news out of antioch where authorities are investigating a shooting. Officials with contra costa fire say two helicopters and ambulances were called to a scene. Not exactly sure how many people were shot. We will bring you the updates as they become available. A suspect is in custody following a highspeed chase in that ended in a police shooting. It happened along highway 4 in pittsburgh. At one point the suspect stopped and let a boy under 18 out of the truck. Then ran to his vehicle and police cars opened fired outside of martinez. The suspect is taken to the Medical Center and is expected to be okay. The chase and shooting is under investigation this morning. Developing news out of concord where one person is critically injured after driving their vehicle off a freeway. It happened after midnight on highway 4 at the solano way exit. No information on the identity of the person or what caused the accident. In San Francisco police are investigating a shooting in f
Tomorrow even hotter. Cornell. Developing news out of antioch where authorities are investigating a shooting. Officials with contra costa fire say two helicopters and ambulances were called to a scene. Not exactly sure how many people were shot. We will bring you the updates as they become available. A suspect is in custody following a highspeed chase in a Police Shooting that happened last night around 9 30. Someone driving a pickup led officers on a chase along highway 4 in pittsburgh. At one point the suspect stopped to let a boy under 18 out of the truck. Suspect then rammed his vehicle into police cars, and officers opened fire. Suspect was taken to the Medical Center and is expected to be okay. The chase and shooting is under investigation. Developing news out of concord where one person is critically injured after driving their vehicle off a freeway. Appeared that just before midnight along highway 4. No word yet on the identity of the person driving the car or what caused the a