that in their new schools, in high school, that their teachers were surprised that they knew so many things about profit, about a business plan and all these times of things that we teach them because you don t usually find them in such young students. here s a perfect example of when you don t know, you really just don t know. when you don t have opportunities, you don t rise to the occasion. many of the students with the old computers that would just schutte down or just stop working for no particular reason, they thought the old computers were just fine and that s the way computers worked. now that they have these new computers, sharon now that they have these new computers, they can really see how quickly the internet comes into your life, how much research that they can do, how many wonderful graphics are available and really how easy it is. and they re focused i read that all you can hear in the room is just the clicking of the keyboards and the clicking of the mousse a
be so slow, the internet connection, that they would become distracted. absolutely. so now we have their complete attention. they are so excited, they re ready to learn. sharon giles from the warwick school in new jersey. hey, best of luck to you. thanks for coming on cnn and telling your story. say hi to the kids. thank you. i will. coming up on cnn, what do the israeli minister of defense, crown prince of saudi arabia, laura bush and ashton kutcher have in common? they and many others are taking part in the annual meeting of the clinton global initiative under way in new york city. after a break we ll hear from the guy in charge. of course he s the former president of the united states, bill clinton. he is speaking to cnn s very own wolf blitzer. sure i d like to diversify my workforce,
whether or not supplying students with this sort of technology, newer technology, if it really affects test scores at all. are you concerned about test scores or concerned about preparing the kids for the real world? right. i m more concerned with preparing them for the real world. with this donation, we have state-of-the-art computers that have microsoft, office software. and that s pretty much what you find in offices throughout the country. so if our students get the opportunity to start working with this now, the presentations westbound the powerpoints, they ll have a very comfortable feeling as they go forward and they ll have real workplace readiness skills. hey, sharon, can you share any success stories with us? well, we do have a few right now. as you mentioned, our students are very young. but we find that as they continue to go through our school system, that many of them are continuing their entrepreneurial efforts and they ve also come back to say
filibuster. plus, one of our great soldiers is about to receive the highest honor any service member can get. saved three of his comrades on a secret mission and died doing it. 42 years later his family will take home the medal of honor. you ll see it, right here, live. first want to start with the president. that town hall meeting the president had yesterday, he took very tough questions from people who were there. small business owners, unemploymentened and recent college graduates. it got us thinking about the promises the president made as he came into office. of course, when he first got into office, very beginning no approval rating until we took one about february of 2009. it showed 76% of americans approved of the job he was doing. and then in february of now i should say it is 50% down. some 20 points. down some 20 points. look at this brand new poll of polls. not our poll. this shows that it s down 46%. down to 46%. the president s approval rating. that s not