what does fate have in store for them? 25 out of that 100 won t graduate from high school. a total of 50 won t go to college. that s half the class that won t go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years meanwhile, other countries are outstarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading, 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. what s odd is that we ve been outspending most developed countries by a long shot. in 2007, we spent over $10,000 per student versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? we ll ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education here on this special essay. we ll examine the role of teachers, testing ands technology. and we ask the man who spent billions of dollars trying to fix education ab
take a rough look. 100 representative american kids entering high school. what does fate have in store for them? 28 of that 500 won t graduate. a total of 50 won t go to college, so that is half of the class that won t go on to higher education. 50 will at the end college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. meanwhile, other countries are outsmarting us. on a recent international test, u.s. students ranked only 15th in the world in reading and 23rd in science and 31st in math. overall, the world economic forum ranks the quality of our education at 26th. what s odd is that we have been out spending most of the developed countries by a long shot n. 2007, we spent over $10,000 per student versus the $7,400 average for rich countries. how can we spend so much money and have so little to show for it? we will ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in american education here on this special and time essay, and we will talk to the man who spent billions
look at this thing. this is the inspire. ti inspire. so what you re looking at is a full-color screen. kids can do side by side graphing, download stuff. this will start with kids in middle school. lit take them all the way through college. this is the only one you need. you never have to make another investment. let s talk about going to school and how kids dress. this is cabbage patch. these are fashionalities. our preppy girl. really cute. dresses that way. skating girl. artsy girl. like our kids when they go to school. exactly. and after school, for 100 years next year, girls have been going to brownies and girl scouts. now they can have their forever friends, brownies, girl scouts, and daisies with them. everybody loves brownies and girl scouts. especially the cookies. let me take this from you. the kindle. hugely popular. hugely popular. i m a huge fan. i always think that any kid that is reading. it s just a great investment for you. but i am so impressed with ho
those closed doors in that meeting with sarkozy and merkel. sure enough, the greek prime minister has done this 180 with regard to his stance on the bailout deal. tell me about it. reporter: i think he s done a 360. let me tell you. this time yesterday, the meeting was underway. between sarkozy and merkel from france and germany. on this deal to fix the european economic system, greece might even get kicked out of the euro zone. this all happened late last night. we spent the morning worrying about this. then we thought maybe they have a deal. for the last few hours we re saying maybe there won t be a referendum. now it is all murky and unclear again. the leader of the opposition in greece is calling for papandreou to resign. he only has a two-seat lead in parliament so who knows what will happen. we re back to the drawing boards. all this tang about whether greece would scuttle the deal. tensions dropped. now we re back into it. 24 hours laerkt we are no closer to knowing
there through, of their suffering. he posted a message on youtube, a part of the it gets better project. even if his sadness, jamie was reaching out to help others. this is jamie rodemeyer in his own words. hello. this is jamie from buffalo, new york. i m just here to tell you that it does get better. here is a little bit of my story. december 2010 i thought i was bi, and then i always got made fun of because i virtually have no guy friends. and i only have friends that are girls. and it bothered me because people would be like faggot and they would taunt me in the hallways, and i made a forum which i shouldn t have done and people would send me hate tell meeg that gay people go to hell. he said he constantly got hate messages on formspring, which is a site that allows kids to send anonymous messages to each other. back then, as you hear, he said he rose above the negativity. here s more of what jamie had to say. and i just want to tell you that it does get better becau