committed from a sort of moral perspective, from a democratic perspective, to not having separate but equal schools, right? or separate but unequal as the brown holding makes very clear. but do we know from the research, are there tangible benefits that occur to the kids that are attending segregated schools as opposed to desegregated ones? absolutely. there s 40 years of research that show that low income and disadvantaged kids do much better in integrated middle class schools. poor kids in high poverty schools on average are two years behind kids in middle class schools. wow. meanwhile, more advantage kids, middle class kids, are not harmed by being exposed to poor kids nor are they harmed in fact, they benefit. there s research that shows they benefit from being exposed to kids of all colors. diversity, well resourced integrates schools work for all kids. this is a really important point. the way the busing debate got framed there s a zero set of
brown holding makes very clear. but do we know from the research, are there tangible benefits that occur to the kids that are attending segregated schools as opposed to desegregated ones? absolutely. there s 40 years of research that show that low income and disadvantaged kids do much better in integrated middle class schools. poor kids in high poverty schools on average are two years behind kids in middle class schools. wow. meanwhile, more advantage kids, middle class kids, are not harmed by being exposed to poor kids nor are they harmed in fact, they benefit. there s research that shows they benefit from being exposed to kids of all colors. diversity, well resourced integrates schools work for all kids. this is a really important point. the way the busing debate got framed there s a zero set of fixed good school chairs and we re going to come in and decide who gets to sit in those
but do we know from the research, are there tangible benefits that occur to the kids that are attending segregated schools as opposed to desegregated ones? absolutely. there s 40 years of research that show that low income and disadvantaged kids do much better in integrated middle class schools. poor kids in high poverty schools on average are two years behind kids in middle class schools. wow. meanwhile, more advantage kids, middle class kids, are not harmed by being exposed to poor kids nor are they harmed in fact, they benefit. there s research that shows they benefit from being exposed to kids of all colors. diversity, well resourced integrates schools work for all kids. this is a really important point. the way the busing debate got framed there s a zero set of fixed good school chairs and we re going to come in and decide who gets to sit in those chairs.
so, we had newt gingrich and mitt romney. both on the offensive over the last 24 hours. they know that six days is a short time and that s when the caucuses are. what have we been hearing from both of the candidates, mark? well, hala, you re absolutely right. so much on the line, so much at stake here. six days until january 3rd when iowa republicans will caucus and will really kick off what has been already a very long presidential season. well, newt gingrich had pledged not to go negative in this campaign. he had said that he would only go positive and talk about his plan to try to turn the american economy around. well, the gloves have come off and, in fact, he is going negative. yesterday on the situation room with wolf blitzer, he went right after mitt romney. in fact, let s listen to what newt gingrich had to say. all i say mitt is, if you want to run a negative campaign and you want to attack people, at least be man enough to own it. that s your staff and that s
primarily? you know, the state sponsored concerns and china, you know, it s been documented. i mean, they are certainly, you no frankly i think they re at the top of the heap in terms of state sponsored threats, they re certainly the most aggressive in terms of using resource and capabilities to probe and test. i m not saying they are constantly attacking our systems but doing the most research, and that has to be done if they want to if they want to launch an attack. you ve got the lone wolf, the lone groups, the terrorist networks out there that also understand, and don t forget, al-qaeda is one of the main goals, it sal been to attack our commerce, attack our economy and they re smart enough to understand that a cyber attack, well resourced and thought out may have a devastating impact, potential impact on our economy. jon: but about proving it, though, after the 9/11 attacks, it became fairly obvious, very quickly, that these attacks were planned and sort of executed from afg