Mzae to get here. Maze. President will be joining us as soon as we get here. Im the education reported at u. S. News. You are at the changing politics of k12 panel discussion. Thank you for being here. E w rankled a pretty awesome panelists tot discuss and answer your pressing questions, because theres nothing really going on in dc, right . I will leave the bio in your programs. I will run down the line. We have lindsey burke. She is the education policy director for the heritage foundation, which were those of you outside the beltway, it is a conservative think tank in washington dc. The president of democrats for education reform. Hes also a civil rights leader. Next in him is marty west, an education professor at Harvard Graduate School of education. He was also previously in education policy advisor to senator lamar alexander, the republican from tennessee, who is the chairman of the Senate Education committee. A quick housekeeping note. This is one of the first panels at ewa. Ewa2
An area such as School Choice. This is an hour mosted by the American Writer of thirn. This is an hour. All right, i think we are going to get started. I think we are giving people a little extra time because it is a maze to get here. We are missing aft, the president wihine berger. She will be joining us as soon as she get here. U are at the changing politics of f 12. Thank you for being here. Dpwa has a great record of whats going on. I am going to leave the bio to you guys. You can look in the program and see the extended bios but i will run down the line here. We have lyndsey burke, the education drepgter for the heritage foundation. Jefferys is the president of de conde democrats for a lifl rights reform. Marty is west. Aels always previously an negotiation policy adviser to senator lamar alexander, the republican of tennessee. A quick housekeeping note, this is one of the first candle at ewa. Everything is on the record so it is a fair game. It is a little warning. This is live s
Rarest actually is a german language printing here in the center. There are only two copies of this july 1776 printing of the declaration in german that had survived. This is been shared with us by Gettysburg College in pennsylvania. Its side by side with a salem, massachusetts printing of the declaration. We also explore the promise of equality, so this notion that all men are created equal endowed by their create where certain unalienable rights, thats language that each person has to decide, does that apply to me. So people who wrote those words maybe didntly recognize the revolutionary potential in them. Actually some people like john adams probably did realize that when you declare that all men are created equal, people might say, well what about women . What about enslaved people . Laboring men . We try to explore that story through this wall here where we look at the status of laboring men, of enslaved people, of women. Including abigail adams. More exhibits of the museum of the
Of jordan light. Jordan white. She was not necessarily a bad student. She was just really bored. She told me when she was in seventh grade, that her teachers did not get her. I remember thinking what does , that mean . She said they just do not get me. They do not understand what i need. She got a scholarship and also went to georgetown i believe and graduated the top of her class and her study was japanese studies. She went to oberlin. A little africanamerican kid from washington dc majoring in japanese studies. Graduated from oberlin and for , the last two years, she has been a translator for a Japanese Company in japan. Her mother went over to visit for the first time in japan. She called me when she got back and said, im just amazed at how well my child is doing. Those are the kinds of stories we hear over and over again. Children who had access to scholarships just took a different journey. Parents were happy about with we what they were doing and were more excited. My own child g
Love this song or hate it. It is okay to sing along. Thank you so much for joining us. We have been talking about a lot of news, the big topic is the conventions are now over and the Democratic National Convention Wraps up and made history last night in philadelphia. Now the race for the white house is officially on. We have more from washington. Reporter in historic end to the convention as the president ial field narrows to two major party candidates. It is with humility, determination, and boundless confidence in americas promise that i accept your nomination for president of the United States reporter with that Hillary Clinton becomes a first ever female president ial nominee from a major u. S. Party. The moment, not lost on the former secretary of state. When any barrier falls in america it clears the way for everyone after all, when there are no ceilings the sky is the limit. Reporter but it was not all pleasantries. Clinton laying out her plan against isis and taking aim at dona