Joining us on booktv. We remind our internet viewers you can send questions or comments at any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org and legal of course post the program on the homepage following todays activities for future reference. I do want to acknowledge our good friends at the Hoover Institution who are cohosting todays program and through their complements as many of you noted weve been given copies of the most recent book by our special guest. I do call your attention to that. There are several in the foyer if you have not already picked one up. Doctor williams is a distinguished professor of economics at george mason university. And this his most recent book teammate the case for what he calls the moral superiority of liberty and its main ingredient limited government. Doctor williams examines the loss of liberty in nearly every important aspect of our lives. The massive decline in our values. And the moral tragedy that has befallen the americans today, namely our belief
Of the next America Project at national journal, thank you for both joining us. Here, both the house and the senate have a version of andsecondary education act the school bill, which still has to be decided on, can you give us an update on not only what this act involves but the house and Senate Versions and what you see as what you like and maybe not like . Guest this is like history in the making for us. We have teachers all over the country on the edge of their little seats wondering what is going to happen to no child left untested or originally called the elementary and secondary education ask. We loved it when it had a boring name. When Lyndon Johnson sounded in 1965 as part of the war on poverty and part of the Civil Rights Movement, lets give fores some extra funding tutors, libraries, teacher training and technology. And then in 2002, it happened and in great part of partisan bipartisan fanfare, educators all over the country going, do you realize you are signing something th
Joining us this week is lily garcia, the president of the national association. Guest i am thrilled to be here. Host also joining us is emily of the next America Project at national journal, thank you for both joining us. As we sit here, both the house and the senate have a version of the secondary education act and the school bill, which still has to be decided on, can you give us an update on not only what this act involves but the house and Senate Versions and what you see as what you like and maybe not like . Guest this is like history in the making for us. We have teachers all over the country on the edge of their little seats wondering what is going to happen to no child left untested or originally called the elementary and secondary education act. We loved it when it had a boring name. When Lyndon Johnson sounded in 1965 as part of the war on poverty and part of the Civil Rights Movement, lets give states some extra funding for tutors, libraries, teacher training and technology.
Business. If you want to clect a drug debt, you cannot follow lawsuit in court. You collect it with the barrel of a gun. Amy as attorney general Jeff Sessions vows a major revival of the war on drugs, well spend speak with susan burton. She spent 15 years cycling in of prison after her fiveyearold son was run over and killed. She has written a book about her life experience, becoming ms. Burton from prison to recovery to leading the fight for incarcerated women. I believe in rehabilitation, not only for drug addiction, but for other areas. And we cannot continue to warehouse people and not provide ,evels of rehabilitation reentry services, training, jobs, and allow them to be an economy indd to this america. Amy we will also speak with Michelle Alexander, author of, the new jim crow mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness. Is has described susan burton as a modernday Harriet Tubman. We have got to build an underground railroad for people returning home from prison. In undergrou
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