illegally. a new warning from homeland security secretary jeh johnson about the crisis on the u.s. border. in the last few months, more than 50,000 undocumented and unaccompanied children have entered this country. i ll be talking to a texas congresswoman who spent time on the border about the white house plan to stem the tide. also, a new fight for voters rights. right now a push to block north carolina s new voter i.d. law. critics say it will keep african-americans and even young voters from the polls. talked to one attorney who s leading the charge. and enda. the employment nondiscrimination act. it s been making the rounds in congress for decades now. still hasn t been passed. some of the backers say they now want to pull their support. we ll talk to enda s early sponsor, former congressman barney frank. and the flipped classroom. a new teaching method is turning the traditional classroom on its head. that is today s big idea. good afternoon to you all. i m t.j. holmes
outdated. ma is problem from the teachers from the wrong generation. what if it is working? children respond to this and teaching method and reward incentive problem they developed had good results. parents like it. kids like it. i wouldn t throw on a 5 or 6-year-old girl mind craft game or why not. unless they wanted it. i would try to go to the individual. i would say, what is your favorite kind of thing to do? what interests you? what is your reward? i know i think it is downright scary they would do this to girls. they say girls are not abstract thinkers. they re not mathematicians and their brains don t work like that. putting them in other classes putting boys in front of the math. that is destructive. i might like something different. i might like sports reward versus perfume. it is a question, sound like they have, from what i ve read they have a blanket way they re doing it and one side for the girls and one side for the boys. i wonder how they decided on
johnson s history room. pushed to the side are the regular desks, lights are replaced by a single bulb. mr. johnson has never been a a big believer in spouting facts and figures. his teaching method is experiences. and it s all part of history to hear things and smell things. today it s the great depression. students will arrive to find their teacher dressed like a world war ii drill sergeant and a wood stock hippy. they put you in a position where it s like how it was back th then. i really like that. it s amazing when things get tough how you can survive. reporter: few students even have grandparents to share depression era memories. . have you ever typed on a typewriter? never.
right? i would hope not. you cannot maintain quality unless you can fire people says this charter founder. as many as we must we spend and as little as we can. have you fired more than ten? in three schools in eight years, yup. while bad teachers might get fired good teachers are given freedom. they can choose their textbooks, teaching method as long they in every quarter of every year learn what the students are needing to learn every day. in harlem 3-4 get passing grades in state math tests. 100 percent of hers pass. if such charters work why aren t there more of them? because unions supporters of traditional school hate charters. this protest occurred outside one of eva s charters. i hope it s not personal, but it may be. this union boss doesn t want charters in his school. over my dead body do they get
no one would come to me. i hope not. you can t maintain quality unless you fire people says this charter founder. as many as we must and as little as we can. have you fired more than 10? in three schools in 8 years, yeah. while bad teachers might get tired good teachers are given freedom. they can choose their textbooks and teaching method as long as they every quarter every year make sure students are learning what they need to learn at the end of the day. in harlem 43 percent of 8th graders get passing grades in state math tests, 100 percent of her kids pass. if such charters work, why aren t there more of them? because unions and supporters of traditional schools hate charters. this protest occurred outside of one of eva s schools. i hope it s not personal, but it mayble. this union boss doesn t want charters in what he calls his