Cross what is known as malcolmx park. Four years earlier she was a student at brown. When see saw the November Times cover of her holding a broom and clean house she decided the Nations Capital is where she would start her career. She believed she had the chance to up the level of rigor in urban classrooms and help the kids that were most poorly served in the past by refusing to keep doing things the way were done before. She was placed at a school in Mount Pleasant named after the founder of the u. S. Naval academy. It was a bumpy beginning and six weeks in the first year she was switched from first to third grade to replace a teacher who had a nervous breakdown in front of children. She had two stable years to hone or craft and felt like she was starting to warrant praise she often received. As she turned on to the sidewalk of the only place she ever worked she felt certain this year would be her last. She entered the gym to search for her coteacher and meet the 60 third graders they
Arts education at all. As a matter of fact people who actually read and think and write are in surprisingly short supply. I have a friend who has a business and she heard a couple of people. Her job was to write catalog and amazon product descriptions. They came out with a distinguished Marketing Program and they could not write a coherent paragraph. She was like having to rewrite them. There is a lot of demand for people who can actually read and think and write. Its significantly unmet demand right now. Its not that there is no role for liberal arts. I think when people do get on their high horse about engineering but think the perception is engineering has remained a rigorous subject. If you go to school in Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering you come out knowing a largely agreed upon body of stuff and its important stuff for when he do it works. I think there is not not the sense anymore that when you get a liberal Arts Education that you do something similar. I think
Reynolds. This weekend special programming on the cspan networks. Friday night native American History and on saturday a debate on independence and sunday a discussion between the court of appeals and on cspan 2. Friday at 8 p. M. , indepth with ron paul. And afterwards with William Burrows talking about the asteroid threat and another chance to see that at 9 p. M. Eastern on sunday. And on cspan 3. A movie about the apollo landing. And then a speech from johnson. And then a look at the legal discussion of bush versus gore. Let us know what you think about the programs you are catching. 2026263400. On twitter use c123 or email us as comments cspan. Org. Education researcher looks at the issue of School Choice in washington, d. C. His book is our school searching for community in the era of choice. The event was held in chicago in may. We are going to go ahead and get started. I am sure people will keep rolling in. I am Teresa Collins and in addition to being on the faculty i am the sha
[applause] questions . [inaudible] s James Taranto points out that the u. S. Supreme Court Decision that essentially outlawed the use of iq tests in lieu of College Degrees to permit people who are not College Graduates to get jobs that matched up with their iqs because in some way they were racially discriminatory i believe. I dont remember the name. It had disparate impact. Disparate impact case. It strikes me that when you speak of credentialing of some sort that is in a College Diploma you might encounter in people for example of taking on line courses and i noticed harvard is starting an on line Course Program very recently so this is moving in the ivies as well. He might nonetheless encounter some similar credentialing problem. What are your thoughts about back . I think its possible but i dont think its likely. I think as possible but dont think its likely for two reasons. I think iq tests have a very special place in American Social and political history and i think competency
Them other than fighting. There are a lot of people in the United States to just wanted to wipe them out, get rid of the problem. You know, early on because they concede that it was going to continue to grow. They were growing quite quickly, and they just wanted to get rid of them. And so it was up problem pretty much from what i have read. Everybody in the country was talking about it or have heard about it. The fortyniners. Salt lake city is pretty much the way you go if you go to get to california. So the transit route. Brigham and was busy setting up like his own kingdom that was going to be another country with its own government. There were not intended on the United States. They noted states has some problems with that. In 1857 they sent as an army across the great plains to force the mormons in the submission or start a war because the mormons to not want to accept federal control. It came down and looked like it was going to be a war in 1857. There were problems in the beginni