Today is about dyslexia. One condition that affects the brain assesses, britain spoken language is considered the most important learning disability. I know senator cassidy is going into a large information in data that i want to again sad i wont say again. The reason the National Center for learning disabilities highlight the many challenges our country faces when trying to meet the needs of other learning disabilities. At following her dreams and her passions. So i want to thank you for your consistent leadership and look forward to hearing this testimony. Testimony. I will now defer to senator murphy to introduce the witness. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for thank you very much. Im eager to get a testament as well. I had to come back but im excited to introduce the expert of experts at the end of the table which is doctor Sally Shaywitz from Yale University where she is a professor in learning development at the school of medicine. Shows a long list of titles including t
After the show is over on her twitter page you can give your thoughts at cspan wj and our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Timepost informational the , things you probably want to keep track of. Especially if you keep track of politics. I invite you to go to those pages and make a thoughts known. Thats it for this program today, another one comes your way at 7 00 tomorrow. Coming up next to the Senate Education seend hearing on dyslexia on what can be done to raise awareness by those. That hearing is at the start shortly. 202 7488003 [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] the Senate Committee on health, education and labor pensions will come to order. Thank you for being here. Let me just remark, senator burial wasd and his this morning. So weve lost some of the folks here including senator hatch who asked that i would note tha
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Hello, im ray suarez and the idea of the s. A. T. Is shifting under the feet of the teenagers, only the College Bound were encouraged to take it. It was an important sorting tool in the scramble for the seats in the competitive schools but not that important if you are graduating with academic die employee ma and headed to the State University and now the board tining erred with it. A writing section was added and the test scored on a basis of 2400 points rather than 1600. More High Schoolers were encouraged to see themselves as College Bound and encouraged to take the test and kids advised to take it a number of times, starting younger, while the industry industry grew up prep r for the exam. The s. A. T. Is making a change. If you are going to have a High School Student in your life, these changes are headed your way. We believe that assessment must be a force for equity and excellence it is time to shake things up. Under criticism from educators and universities who say that the s.
What were they thinking . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Today we may be at the Tipping Point for one of the most important decisions president obama needs to make as he begins his second term. On capitol hill republicans including moderate republicans are sending the president a clear warning, dont nominate susan rice to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Rice is the current u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She spent a second day meeting with senators trying to explain some of her inaccurate comments she made after the september 11th terrorist attack on the u. S. Consulate in benghazi, libya. Cnns senior Congressional Correspondent dana bash is joining us now from capitol hill with the very latest. What happened today, dana . Reporter wolf, it was one thing for susan rice to be criticized harshly yesterday by the three republicans she met with because they had been among her harshest critics, senators graham and mccain. Todays meeting was different be