100 representative American Kids entering high school. What does fate have in store for them . 25 out of that 100 wont graduate from high school. A total of 50 wont go to college. Thats half the class that wont go on to higher education. 50 will attend college, but only 22 will graduate within six years. Meanwhi 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. Whats odd is that weve 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 . Well ask that question and others to some of the leading figures in American Education here on this special essay. Well examine the role of teachers, testing ands technology. And we ask the man who spent
or the administrative pressure? huge. i ve been saying on fox net wok for six months, if i was in the administration, forget about the 800,000 backlogged. forget about it. put it back on the shelf. send every judge to the border and deal with those coming in right now. last in, first out. deal with these people right now. if you don t have a quick hearing, 90% based on the current data will be put on an airplane and sent home and that will cause the numbers to drop. i think it s a great idea. let the backlog sit there. it s going to be there anyway. send the judges to the border. neil: this got weirder with just the number of kids coming to the border. in many cases being used as pawns. showing up by themselves or with adults that weren t their parents. the graham measure from what i understand would allow the kids to stay with their parents
didn t happen. now republicans are going, what will you sign? what will you do? so give us a hint. invited chuck schumer to the white house. not for the first time. guess who is here? john bussey is here from the wall street journal. the associate editor. a corporation with which we share common ownership. chuck schumer, come over, let s have a sit-down. chuck schumer, chuck schumer s chief of staff and john kelly the only ones in a white house. shepard: in the room at least. in the room with the president. in accounting there s a thing called lyfo, a cost flow accounting in. last in, first out. this is what the republicans in the senate and the house are worried about. the last word in to talk to the president will be the first decision by the president made. last person that will have influence with the president now decides. so the republican leadership is saying, now what? is there going to be a schumer-trump agreement as a result of this conversation and
amendment rights, they say, because it subsidizes union positions that they don t agree with. for example, they don t like the fact that the union tends to protect seniority, last in, first out, that kind of thing, and that seemed to get resonance with the supreme court today. anthony kennedy echoed just that point that the challenging teachers have made here. he said many teachers are very, very strongly opposed to the public sector union s position on such issues as merit pay and retention and seniority. so the majority of the supreme court did seem inclined to rule against the unions and say that if you re not in a union, if you choose not to belong, you don t have to pay the union fee. now to be clear, the court hasn t reached that decision yet. the decision probably won t come until probably sometime later this year, but perhaps by late june, but it seemed based on the oral argument, that the union s going to lose this one. pete, thanks so much. you bet.
that would like to see it spread. i think this could be a catalyst for a wave across the country, really looking at these laws and policies and making sure that they are the ones that they re the ones that are going to serve the best interest of kids part of what is wrapped up if in this particular case is looking at policies like last in, first out. how you lay teachers off. everyone knows in the time of layoffs we have to be able to protect the best teachers, yet there are 11 states across this country that stale man gate that layoffs are conducted by seniority instead of quality. i think you re going to see state legislatures and governors across this country really taking a second look at policies like that. it goes hand in hand with measuring the performance of teachers because the union pushes back on objective measurement. here s one step in what is seen as progress. union says, hold your horse, we re going to appeal. we think we will win. we ll have to watch the outcome. we