listening to rap music. the fact that this perpetuation of young black men, because you listen to rap music? rap music is a reflection of our society. what i liked about president obama today, he didn t blame thug culture for our problems. he looked at the systemic problems. but the president did say that they had negative reinforcements and take that for what it is. the thug culture did not create low third grade reading levels, or kids who can t have does it help those people? it s a reflection. the mirror doesn t help anything. bernie shaw? it s a reflection of culture. o reilly is uncomfortable with this culture, that s understandable. he did not come from this culture. that culture has some validities, if you will. i m thinking about before my generation, people condemned
so what president obama did today is not just pull yourself up and i m going to create programs. we re going to tackle third grade reading levels and juvenile justice reform. we re going to tackle school discipline. we re going to look at the systematic problems that you have in your life and help you tackle those as well while you also have to pull yourself up and have responsibility. so the president says it s a combination of both. we are here as mentors, as teachers, coaches, professors to help you pull yourself up. it s not just you but a combination of both. guess what? in the year 2025, the year 2045, the year 2050, the problem will remain. exactly. hopefully, hopefully, the intensity will have lessened. hopefully it will have gotten better and people will understand and these young
at the beginning. point number two, if a child can t read well by the time he s in third grade, he s four times less likely to graduate from high school by age 19 than one who can. and if he happens to be poor, he s six times less likely to graduate. so by boosting reading levels, we can help more of our kids make the grade. keep on advancing. reach that day that so many parents dream of coming close and then you start tearing up and that s when they are walking across that stage holding that diploma. number three, we know that latino kids are almost twice as likely as white kids to be suspended from school. black kids are nearly four times as likely and if a student has been suspended even once by the time they are in ninth grade, they are twice as likely to drop out. now, that s why my administration has been working
reading skills. right. the host attacked that whistle blowerer s credibility over and over. she talked to cnn. he has been attacking her and repeatedly mischaracterized her findings on the reading levels with student athletes. bloomberg took them to task on the way unc has gone after her. saying it was shooting the messenger. she works firsthand with the athletes and her stories she shared with us, they were very, very compelling. tough to think of them reading on the level they have been according to you and your reporting. stay on it for us. thank you. coming up, hillary clinton opening up in the q&a session. what was her biggest regret as secretary of state? that s next. sir paul mccartney and ringo starr together again on stage. the performance last night and what they are planning for the future. coming up.
we need to leave it up to the scientists. and of course, if understand the global warming issue is affecting citizen s lives, but i don t agree with tax dollars being used on it. investigation, ncaa, reading levels, college athletes, below eighth grade. this is not good. watch this. i mean, we may as well just go to glennwood elementary school right up the street and let all the third graders and fourth graders in here. they can t read and there are no remedial options, what are the options? the other option is to cheat. that is correct. or to find some professor, some course of curriculum where there are professors or there is little or no work expected from the student. when they re leaving here, the athletes are leaving without education, they are significantly behind. the level of reading and writing that is required. all right, when you look at the actual numbers you have