We started studies. It really went on turbo charge when we launched the world poll. In 2006 we were statistically sampling 96 of the worlds population. These are not soft measures that sound like nice things for us to keep a count of. They are actually very hard predictors of Key Performance indicators. Let me give you one example, Health Care Cost burden may be bankrupting our country. If you have an employee thriving in a , we dont have to get employees thriving in all five elements. One element, two, three, four drop Health Care Cost burden incrementally. We also measure what we call work place engagement. Again it sounds like a nice thing to measure. Engageme engagement. The reason why we really about that it is that we found a handful of items that are predictive of Key Performance indicators in an organization. I will point out the interesting one. You say you have someone who cares about your development. Theres that funny word care showing up in the work place. Its always showe
Of Capital Punishment for Death Penalty cases. A big chunk of the experience that qualified me to be even considered sg came out of that work. Even more importantly for me, was that boy, thats really how i learned how to be a lawyer. You go down to the county courthouse in jackson georgia or Gulfport Mississippi sometime and try to argue a case down in one of those things. You will learn a lot about how to be a lawyer that way and you learn a lot about how to be the lawyer when youre the one on the line and its your judgment. Youre deciding which issues to press and which issues not to press. The consequences are as high as they are and its on you to make the judgments and to carry them out. You learn an awful lot about how to be a lawyer when youre doing that and so without that experience, as i said im quite certain i wouldnt be here so i think this is not im not making an ideological point. Whatever you think is in the public interest, were a public profession. Young lawyers ought t
And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill president obama made his first secondterm foray outside washington today, with a call to stop gun violence. It was part of a campaignstyle effort designed to goad congress into action. We dont have to agree on everything to agree its time to do something. Ifill the president took that message to minneapolis, a city thats already imposed stricter background checks on gun buyers. The white house plan calls for those checks, a renewed ban on assaultstyle weapons and limits on highcapacity magazines for ammunition. The only way we can reduce gun violence in this country is if the American People decide its important. If you decide its important. If parents and teachers, Police Officers and pastors, hunters and sportsmen, americans of every background stand up and s
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions brown president obama took his push for tighter gun control laws on the road today to a Police Department in minnesota. Good evening. Im jeffrey brown. Ifill and im gwen ifill. On the newshour tonight, we get reaction to the president s proposal to ban assault weapons and Institute Universal Background checks from two local Law Enforcement officials. Brown then, we have the story of a navy seal, a sniper in the iraq war and bestselling author who was gunned down by a fellow vetan aa shooting range in texas. Ifill Margaret Warner looks at how ancient manuscripts in mali were saved, hidden from destruction during the conflict with islamist rebels. Brown what makes a great teacher . Hari sreenivasan reports on a Charter School in connecticut that uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. We have parents, students, peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they ar
That uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. We have parents, students peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they are doing well and what they need to improve. Ifill the 500yearold bones unearthed in a parking lot in england are those of king richard iii. John burns of the New York Times fills us in. Brown and we close with a conversation with a master of the short story, writer George Saunders. For me, the approach has become to go into a story not really sure what i want to say, trying to find some little seed, crystal, an interesting sentence or an image that leads to an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Pe