dana, amy, ramesh, thank you for joining us. thank you for watching state of the union. i m candy crowley in washington. if you missed any part of the show, find us on itunes. fareed zakaria gps is next. this is gps the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria. we ll start today s show with a simple question, are america s kids falling behind the rest of the world? the recent release of international test scores suggests the answer might be yes. i have a powerhouse panel to talk about the problem and solutions, former new york city schools chancellor joel klein, teach for america s wendy kopf, sal kan, one of the most innovative educators of the world and tom friedman of the new york times. then, to understand the protests that have roiled ukraine over the past weeks you have to go
system, wendy kopf, teach for all and sal kan is one of the most innovative educators in the world and the founder of kan academy and tom friedman the three-time pulitzer prize winning columnist for the new york times. joel you ve seen these results for years. what do you think is the big takeaway? the clear takeaway is we re stuck and not getting the results we need with our kids and we re going to pay a human price if we don t change, change quickly and rapidly. two points people should understand, pisa tests the kind of skills that the market is going to demand, the kind of higher order complex thinking that in a global high-tech economy our children need to have if they re going to succeed, and a failure to have those skills is going to mean they re not going to be able to get the jobs they want. the world is changing so rapidly. that is the first takeaway and
kids and the most important thing about this school wendy and i went to, 40% of the kids came from migrant families. this was not some elite school what of so. sal, you re not as worried i think when we talk about these test scores. you think that there s a lot more to education than just test scores? the place where i am less worried, sometimes when you see the national rankings, you say these will be the ones that eat our lunch one day. we ve been middling on these country wide rankings for about 50 years but the amount of innovation and economic creation happening in the u.s. is accelerating. the u.s. is in that dimension is in a good position because of its natural, its dynamic economy, because of its inventiveness, because of its culture of creativity, what we need to do and i agree with