plays the violin and didn t get into college because of your race? the supreme court is, again, looking at affirmative action and whether it belongs in the college admin process. love y welcome, everyone. let s start with this occasion. in 2003 in a case involving the university of michigan law school, the court upheld a prior ruling saying admissions officers can indeed consider race as part of a wholistic recrew of an applicant s file. a student says she was not accepted because she is white. at the same time, some asian american students say they don t even identify their race when they apply for college because some studies suggest they need to have higher scores than white students to get into some colleges. nicole, when it comes to college admission, should race still be considered? race should definitely be considered. when we look at what s happening in the public education system, it s failing a lot of brown and black students. so when we think about providing comm
breaking news from washington. the white house deciding not to send congress all the internal documents related to the solyndra loan. jessica yellin is live. that means members of congress are not going to get a glimpse of what is on the president s blackberry or any more internal documents from the white house itself related to the solyndra loan. let s back up and do the big picture. two of the republicans investigating the solyndra case asked for anything that mentioned the solyndra loan whatsoever and send them up to capitol hill. what has happened now is that the white house capital has sent a letter to them this afternoon and it says, we re not going to do this. we re not going to send you all of these documents because you ve gotten 70,000 pages of documents from agencies, another 900 pages from inside the white house, and to be just bottom line it for you, erin, this is consistent with other administrations. we ve always heard about executive privilege. the president
burst into a car rental company in florida. they pointed guns at people and even roughed up a janitor. they didn t get much cash because the office mostly does business with credit cards. they also stole a ford focus from the company and used it as a get-away car. police are looking for them. a tiger cub claws her way to the top of the class. a daughter of battle him of the tiger mother, she was named value vectorrian of her high school graduating class. she s now apparently headed to harvard. you may remember her mom created controversy earlier this year forking bigwig about her strict parenting style. and you talked to her. i did interview her several times. meanwhile let s take a look at the weather on friday. the missouri river floodwaters has finally reached a manmade
ala bob barker. come on down. the tiger mother, remember the tiger mother? i didn t remember this story but the tiger mother made headlines when she disciplined her kids in a very forceful way. very forceful. a lot of people said she was too tough. didn t allow sleepovers and if they practiced the piano wrong she came down really harshly. like a tiger. apparently her oldest daughter just got accepted to harvard. apparently it works to be a mean mom. i ll point out the tiger mother is a yale law school professor. she s a smarty pants, too. so she s trying to limit the smart aleck in the family. she really maintained the rules in the house and made sure the girls studied. she has two daughters. she wanted them to excel and succeed and she said this is based on chinese mothers are tough on their kids. it seemed to work out. going to harvard, not bad!and she sa is based based on chinese mothers who are tough on their kids.
i think that s the real lesson here. no sleep overs, no play dates, no birthday parties. you can t goat a grade less than an a. no play date. no sleep overs. listen to what she says in her own words about this book and her experience as a tiger mother. i grew up with extremely strict but also extremely loving chinese parents. for me, as a grown up looking back, their having high expectations for me coupled with love was the greatest gift they could give me. are our pex peckations too low? yes. we demonize the illegal immigrants that come here. do you watch them work? they don t take breaks. may work and work and work. they want something. they want more. it s the same case in asian countries as well. yeah, we need to discipline our kids more.