food stamps, i think if you look at unemployment benefits, there are white folks getting unploemt benefits. trying to explain the context of why he said that he said that he had seen waiting for superman. which i saw as well. i m just saying this is what he told kelly. let me quote him. he said, let me say, no matter what, i want to make every lives better. i don t want anybody, and if you look at what i ve been saying, i ve been pretty clear about my concern for dependency whatever their race is. somehow it, then, that you can only mention african-americans in a room that was virtually all white? that s cute to say, i watched the film. i watched the film as well. i saw them talk about the future of our education system.
and rick santorum are running neck and neck and neck. while perry and bachmann are struggling to stay in the race. huntsman is passing on iowa and doubling down in new hampshire. for gingrich tonight s caucuses come several weeks after he peaked in the polls. but he said he is still in position to win. there s 41% who are undeci d undecided, it s very possible to win. we ve talked we ve had 18,000 people in a telephone conversation call yesterday afternoon. we reached 89,000 eye juans and telephone conference calls and one more yet today. we have precinct leaders who believe that the caucus those are going to walk in, have a discussion and a substantial number of going to switch. 41% newt gingrich mentioned are voter s who say they could change their minds. whatever happens in iowa, romney says he s going to face president obama in november. by the way the president is running in iowa too. he ll speak to the caucusing democrats live via satellite this evening and mitt
stuffer, waiting for superman. american teachers. give that to me. i can t wait. thank you all so much. thank you. we appreciate you. you, you ain t alone and just let me be [ male announcer ] this is your moment. your ticket home [ male announcer ] this is zales, the diamond store.
1995, and i can tell you my favorite column, the one i enjoyed writing most. my wife is chairman of the seed school foundation which runs the boarding school here in washington, d.c. and about six years ago now, they opened a baltimore branch. and saturday morning and i nothing to do and she said you want to come with me? they re having the lottery for the school. who gets to be in the school. this is actually what started waiting for superman, this column. and you go to that lottery and sit in an auditorium and you see these families clutching a number. and i called the column life bingo. it s after people were tumbling out of a bingo machine. if your number got called, you were going to get out of some awful inner city public school somewhere. and if your number didn t get called and to sit in that audience to watch the moms, the dads. i ll never forget the head of the school at the time said they had mothers coming in who were on crack but who knew enough
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