Investments, we know that there is a cost efficient way to do this so we don t have teachers wasting time reteaching the material over again for the first six or eight months, six or eight weeks of the school year and relearning teaching material that they should have known last spring. if there are any kids watching this with their parents, i m sure they re upset. this is talking about future generations. ron fairchild, thank you so much. good to have you with us. people across the country are flocking to the theater to see the new hit movie inception. it s a movie about someone who steals secrets from people while they re sleeping an draeming. is that even possible? you ll find out next on msnbc saturday. [ male announcer ] we make them beautiful. we make them tougher. we make them legendary. we make them better. to make your life better.
Round. the article says many kids are deprived of healthy stimulation during the summer, millions of low income children lose a significant amount of what they learned during the school year while on summer vacation. joining me in studio now to talk about that is ron fairchild, ceo of the national summer learning association. as i was asking you before, you re pro education. but you re against year round schooling. why is that? i think that when we talk about this issue, the problem really is an issue of summer learning loss. and when kids lose more than two months of math performance, most kids lose more than two months of math performance and lower income kids lose two months of reading performance, we know that has huge setbacks for them. it s a waste of time and effort. and the solution to doing that is really creating opportunities for learning during the summer months that they may not already have. the time article besides looking at what is going on in our country, thekid
mercury rising to record levels. another heat wave hits the mid-atlantic. bonnie loses steam. does the storm pose a real threat to oil spill recovery efforts? summer days is the three month break from school hurting america s kids? we take a look. and close call on the tracks. wait until you see this. a woman walks off a subway platform and right into the path of an on coming train. we ll show you the amazing rescue right here. hi, everybody. good morning. welcome to msnbc saturday. i m thomas roberts. alex witt has the day off. it s 11:00 in the east, 8:00 for you out west. now here s what s happening. we begin with tropical depression bonnie running out of steam. the national hurricane center discontinued tropical storm warnings in the gulf coast. the bigger weather headline today, stifling heat sticking around in the south and the northeast. many cities in new england are going to see triple digit temperatures, 101 to 105. for the latest, we want to check in with b
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of our neglect. i urge my colleagues, this day, to reject this substitute, not because it is bad for the words that incorporates, because its effect would be to stop action so desperately needed by this country in this global. i urge my colleagues to pass this bill and take this historic opportunity for our children, our grandchildren and generations yet unborn. i yield back the balance of my time. i really hate to do this. you file a 300 page amendment at 30 9:00 a.m., the american people need to know what is in this bill. at 3:00 and 9:00 p.m., the american people need to know what is in this bill. the federal and financial institution shall not, later than six months, revised its standards for the performance of real estate appraisers in connection with federally related transactions under the jurisdiction of the agency to comply with the requirement under the amendments made by paragraph 1 of this section. now, we have to retrain every appraiser in america so that the