Reynolds. This weekend special programming on the cspan networks. Friday night native American History and on saturday a debate on independence and sunday a discussion between the court of appeals and on cspan 2. Friday at 8 p. M. , indepth with ron paul. And afterwards with William Burrows talking about the asteroid threat and another chance to see that at 9 p. M. Eastern on sunday. And on cspan 3. A movie about the apollo landing. And then a speech from johnson. And then a look at the legal discussion of bush versus gore. Let us know what you think about the programs you are catching. 2026263400. On twitter use c123 or email us as comments cspan. Org. Education researcher looks at the issue of School Choice in washington, d. C. His book is our school searching for community in the era of choice. The event was held in chicago in may. We are going to go ahead and get started. I am sure people will keep rolling in. I am Teresa Collins and in addition to being on the faculty i am the sha
Charter schools are run by forprofit entities. That is a very different environment. In the environment there is so much mistrust so i think any time he gets into charter he brings in a chain and this is the beginning of a different sort of an effort. But from the outside it does not smell right. So much of the issue is localized so would his uniform if we create more space for a public Charter Schools and they are Public Schools with the autonomy they should be held to the same transparency standards. To the greatest extent possible any City Building space for a district to be better and for Charter Schools to be innovative need to create the most level Playing Field possible. And to be transparent as they can be and that is the biggest tragedy. When the Chicago Teacher strike was happening the title of the article is a part of buses dying in chicago. Of wind things like that happens our ongoing ability to maintain tenuously a hold on a Democratic Society admits to a larger engine of
Frustration and people that are struggling and communities that are struggling violence. I dont have a good answer. It takes some dialogue. Do you want to weigh in . I have thought a little bit about that before in one beginning of an idea i came up with is things need to be tackled in preschool because in preschool, preschool is a time where kids have the fewest ideas coming into conceptions about the world. Its the ideal time to try and encourage empathy through the structure of preschool and my hope would be as soon as we go through preschool and become more empathetic individuals in that time of very Rapid Development they are going to go into Elementary School and eventually high school with a much more empathetic background and that will leave them much more in tuned to the issues that you brought up which is i think the first step. There are simply people recognizing their presence in being willing to talk about them. Anybody else want to weigh in before i answer back . It seems
[applause] questions . [inaudible] s James Taranto points out that the u. S. Supreme Court Decision that essentially outlawed the use of iq tests in lieu of College Degrees to permit people who are not College Graduates to get jobs that matched up with their iqs because in some way they were racially discriminatory i believe. I dont remember the name. It had disparate impact. Disparate impact case. It strikes me that when you speak of credentialing of some sort that is in a College Diploma you might encounter in people for example of taking on line courses and i noticed harvard is starting an on line Course Program very recently so this is moving in the ivies as well. He might nonetheless encounter some similar credentialing problem. What are your thoughts about back . I think its possible but i dont think its likely. I think as possible but dont think its likely for two reasons. I think iq tests have a very special place in American Social and political history and i think competency
New exhibition space, there was a deliberate decision by the curators not to do that again. And what we wanted was that the flag becomes a metaphor for the country. Its tattered, its torn, but it still survives, and the message is really the survival of both the country and the flag, and were not trying to make it look pretty, were trying to make it look like it endured its history, and it still can celebrate its history. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the British Naval bombardment of fort mchenry during the war of 1812. Learn more about the flag fran be sis scott key wrote about while we tour the smithsonians starspangled banner exhibit tonight at 6 and 10 p. M. Eastern, part of American History the this weekend on cspan3. Part of what makes this a special place as we seek to bring the outside and into the inside out and it is in that spirit i would like to introduce my friend who has come in this evening to read from and talk about his new book. Sam is and always has been a