greetings and salutation. you got to be a thinker not a stinker those were my father's wise words to me when i was just a wee little tyro on the importance of paying attention in school and getting a good education parents and elders often tell us that we can achieve anything in this life as long as we get a good education and while most of the time that's true what happened what what happens when it's the child who wants to be the thinker but the educational system around that child is the stinker what happens when a child is born in the wrong social economic background and is forced into a public school system underfunded and robbed blind what do we do then that is one of the many important questions being posed in a recent report by the alliance to reclaim our schools reports titled confronting the education debt and the report found that between two thousand and five and twenty seven thousand public schools in the u.s.

were under funded by fifty five hundred eighty billion in title one and i.d.e.a. federal dollars alone money that is targeted specifically to support thirty million of our most vulnerable students. report goes on to point out that over the same period of time the personal net worth of the nation's four hundred wealthiest individuals grew by one point fifty seven trillion dollars. yes hawk watchers it appears that the education gap mirrors the wealth gap here in the land of milk and honey the education debt the report title refers to is the historic an economic social political and moral origins of the academic achievement gap and that and the report lays out the five main causes for this gap these include our old friends failed federal funding disparities between state and local funding tax codes favoring the rich and of course who could forget our good buddy let's spend big money on the criminal justice system and school private privatization rather than

just public schools education is a right not a luxury and the only way to save the children is when we start being thinkers before stinkers and start watching the hawks. like you that i got. with that we. would. welcome everyone watching the harks i am tyrrel been through and joining me today to discuss and confront the education debt is author and speaker in baltimore's own d. watkins and civil rights activist perry red thank you both for coming on today i want

to i want to start by actually asking you both you know how is your lives been affected by this academic achievement gap here in the united states growing up with perry. well unfortunately for me. the inequality the. wealth gap. me personally immensely in that i didn't have money to go to college when the time to go to college came when i graduated from high school i had to make a decision it affected the rest of my life and i was doing the military in order to . achieve a higher earning potential in the future and i was met with racism. to a high degree as a seventeen year old something i never dreamed i thought the military was everyone was green and something different and i've suffered thereafter. i was that you know education system a state of what i was that affected you so for me it was

a culture of education that i was never really able to pick up the schools and communities didn't really have the resources that schools in america should have been one in the ninety's we should have technology we should have small classrooms we should have textbooks that you know spoke to things that we should know about and we didn't have that as a result but it's i'm actually got a college that was like i was in a whole different world when i was you know sitting in class and full of people who were seventeen eighteen years old when knew everything about shakespeare they knew everything about all of these different forms of things that never made it into my classroom and you know. it was in a fifth for me so what that that singlehandedly very different than my whole entire life any and every. negative thing i've ever been a part of was connected to education culture based on the community where i came from. speaking to the community d. many people from from let's be honest from wealthier middle class backgrounds

a lot of people who look like me. they have no concept of this gap and this kind of education debt that we owe is there said thirty million kids. what are some of the real world examples of the differences between public schools you know in the wealthy neighborhoods let's take baltimore for example public schools and wealthy members of baltimore public schools in the poor neighborhoods of baltimore so over the last three years i've been to over i mean over two hundred school visits i've been to really really well these schools and schools in really really really. poor neighborhoods and it's night and day been in schools where every student has when you walk into the classroom there's a you know there's a screen like the one behind this with you know the teacher can touch it and it's an active and they got like laser aliens and just have it out of these different things and then i've been to schools where teachers still use chalk which is like mom blow it to me like it has to be like you know three thousand and eighteen they

need to get like a dry erase board and really have those things so it's easy to see how certain says the students would never know i'm not going to say never but are able to compete because they just don't have the same things that you say all of the time and it's plain sad but it's plain perry how is this this funding and education how is that historically affected minority communities in the united states and is there a method to the madness you know are we seeing these funding gaps you know is there a reason behind them beyond just politicians trying to save a penny save a penny. of their reasons rather than as opposed to saving a penny it's been giving. actually giving hundreds and thousands and millions of paintings we've seen in the political to liberation of charter schools and i ran for the d.c. council in washington d.c.

in twenty thirteen and one of my platform issues was a moratorium on charter schools why is that because the funding design. war public schools means was being diverted into private hands and and in just seeing the draining of our public school system over just a short period of time when when the law was. it showed up in the worsening or the lessening in school test scores or or even school attendance because the resources were there and so for activists who were out on the street fighting for their schools you have a battle of folks who will vote against their own interests i want my child to have a better education so i want to send my child to the school of my choice and the conservative mindedness country have to have high jinks hijacked the

narrative and basically created a narrative that that cause poor people to vote against their own interests and that's the proper an adequate funding in the schools and money going into the hands of the most wealthy and if you will people you know what's interesting about this too is you you see this play out across you know basically. all poor people on that level but it's specifically you see it affect you know black brown people and you know communities of of color especially and that's one of the odd things about it is you know is that a part of me wants to say that one has been going on this long it's not just about you know when you're seeing communities of color you know in schools in those communities being ignored and ostracized for this long part of the brains as that's not just about you know ignoring that there that's going on that maybe it's a direct thing of trying to keep those people on educated and in the search same

property class as american as apple pies when i walk into a courtroom i know i'm not going to have the same experience that you have you walk into a courtroom they are going to look at you and they're going to see. you know jurors are going to see themselves and they're going to say you know it's guy but it's a clean cut guy didn't do anything wrong but it is the same thing as the same thing in a classroom of african-americans that the way two hundred forty four years before he even stepped foot in a public school so. you know and then by the time we actually made it into schools we had hand me downs from other schools in oh the old textbooks and broken chairs and built a holes that i missed two thousand and eighteen last year two thousand and seventeen there was schools in bottom one i still don't have heat and ac you see students bundled up with coats on the classroom china learned along the visit and you can see the steam coming out of them like that's crazy like we're talking about kids that don't have i pads and wow five things like that i mean that he you know i mean it was like is is is beyond obvious and wimpy when you bring these things up and

you talk about these things and i say oh my god he's a conspiracy you know he's just. you know trying to pay or whatever ok well prove me wrong you know prove me wrong. you know the rule one of the big questions is rather you know not just to focus on it's important to look at how bad it's gotten but also want to bring up to how do we fix this problem how do we you know how do we get public school system i went to public school mall life it's a good education in my community but i know not everyone is lucky like i am to have a good public school community that i had how do we solve this problem so every kid in america can can go to public school for free and get the education that they deserve that i believe has a right to a soul so we all have an equal starting point well you know you mentioned that you were lucky and would say you were not lucky you were beneficiary of the american experience. what is key and earlier you talked about school systems

and being so different in in just a small area i went to sixteen different schools. during my twelve year. walked. through school the normal americans period while walking to school when. i went to school in d.c. in in a d.c. and in the suburbs back and forth because my mother was in the search for greater and greater earnings and for a better future for me and so i got to see how you do hand me downs school books that mr watkins alluded to. were part of the system in d.c. and i had all these names written in front of for people who had them before me yet when i went out to maryland i had books that were just absolutely pristine and so one of the one of the solutions. was defined in the report that you quoted earlier

and that's proper funding suitable funding and the funding exists in the richest nation on earth and the key is political will social will institutional will and that comes in the form of what we have coming up on the women's six voting and it is so important and as you talk about education voting is a part of that social education is a part of that and some of those conservative minded people in this country have said like the former representative tom tancredo we need americans to be not educate the love the un educated said this so-called president who exists right now and that is a born on its face what it is a part of the american experience that it is that is the walk ins for what i want to thank you so much for coming on having this conversation about the education

state of education in america today all right as we go to break cork watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered of facebook and twitter and your full shows that are three dot com coming up my watching the hawks call. the wallace showcases the launch of a daring new invention in ocean cleanup in r.t. america's latasha sweat suite has the latest on amazon's latest scandal state to watch. thanks. thanks thanks thanks . china is in the software it's in the hardware as opposed to this so-called threat

from russia where they're spreading needs that influence people to vote against their better interest they put a meme of a bernie sanders as a. bodybuilder and this war of the minds of america to vote against their interests but china is actually infiltrating the hardware with actual chips try this actually the soccer or the actual malicious software that's ok we won't talk about that. with lawmakers manufactured and sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling closest protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real new.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us of the one trillion dollars and. more than ten point zero or more in tamping each day. eighty five percent of global will be loans to the old for rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is what one does it shows you can afford to miss the one and only. have faith in this government. president i don't have faith in the system.

i'm just a broken system designed for people like this. as well. different people different reasons lost a job lost a home. people in philadelphia are only about two paychecks away from homelessness. the patriarchy is real hawk watchers despite what some other political pundits that executive in the suspenders by the water cooler and many many of our u.s.

congressmen would have you believe for a prime example of just how embedded into our society the bias towards men is one should look no further than amazon's new artificial intelligence recruiting tool hailed as a possible new breakthrough in sorting through resumes the program had to ultimately be scrapped because the recruiting engine. they strong bias towards men and was against women yes the ai we designed to provide us an unbiased search for the best candidate out there proved to be just as flawed as its very human desires here's our tea barrackers natasha sweet with the story. irene process can be painful for the employer and job seekers alike so it's not far fetched that a big company that like amazon would experiment with artificial intelligence as part of their hiring process but what it didn't expect was for the ai to be biased against women the program was exactly that the computer program

a built since twenty fourteen reviewed resumes from the past ten years while what makers of the program didn't realize is that most of those resumes were from men so amazon system taught itself that male candidates were actually prefer so if you take a look at this graph you can see that amazon isn't the only tech giant with more than half of its employees counted as men well amazon does not disclose gender breakdown of its technical workforce these other companies reveal how many men have more technical related jobs than women and again that's more than half so those familiar with the efforts of the system actually penalize resumes that include the word women as in women's chess club but gender bias wasn't the only flaw the system actually recommended and qualified candidates for the job so can other companies learn from amazon's lesson well goldman sachs and the holton are still looking to automate part of their hiring process and according to

a career builder survey fifty five percent of human resource managers believe ai will be a regular part of their work in the next five years the american civil liberties union is challenging the use of a i mean that fairness is an issue another point made by activists is a candidate cannot sue because they may not always know if i was used in the hiring process so the question remains if the technology is really ready to help sort through resumes and in the meantime amazon is using a watered down version of the work engine in los angeles and sweets or. i got to say waters when you look around our oceans and there are a mess a mess three separate scientific papers published in two thousand and fourteen as tomato that over five trillion trillion with a t. pieces of plastic debris is floating sinking or dissolving into our planet's great seas and oceans in fact of that five trillion some two hundred sixty nine thousand

tons of plastic float on the ocean's surface well some four billion plastic microfiber as per square kilometer litter the deepest of our waters we are sowing gorge with plastic in our oceans are reminds me of the late great george carlin new ones joke maybe plastic could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place it wanted plastic birds self didn't know how to make it needed us could be the answer to our age old egocentric philosophical question why are we here plastic but fantastic carlin musings aside the ocean plastic crisis is very important to our survival which is why watching the hawks own tabitha wallace ventured out west to san francisco harbor to witness the launching of a new invention that just might save the oceans in spite of our very plastic ways.

at the age of sixteen plain flat was on vacation increase so must give a diving he noticed something interesting about our oceans it was full of plastic lots and lots of plastic and it was on that day that he decided he wanted to do something about it. and on september eighth in san francisco bay california defied the critics and the naysayers who told him it couldn't be done every sufficiently novel technology has always been met with skepticism. it's just evidence that we're doing something new. if you just look at your human history is basically a very long list of things that could have been done at the age of eighteen points last found in the ocean cleanup project at the center of the project was a simple yet novel way to remove the nearly one point eight trillion pieces of plastic floating on the surface of the great pacific garbage patch the goal of

buoyant and the ocean cleanups invention is to create an artificial coastline to gather the plastic making it possible to be easily removed at its core as a one thousand nine hundred sixty eight foot floater with a ten foot skirt attached underneath that can catch the plastic but allow maureen life to escape if you see from a distance and there's just maybe a bit of it's going to look like a simple system it's a floating. skirt below it but the difficult thing about it's your step there's nothing like this if you would design a ship for instance there are thousands of ships being built before so you can build on that experience here we had to go back to first principles of fundamental engineering where you see the folks that will be taking the fight out to sea about a hundred plus nautical miles past the golden gate bridge to stop the ocean more rigorously tested in that water and what you see is. actual ocean cleanup project being towed behind the bridge now what's going to happen it's going to go up there

and then they're going to get into your ship leave it to make it work and that's the biggest tax because no one knows what's coming out and out on the open sea. it isn't just the product or mission that makes this so special as chief operating officer a lot of the whole year oak explained to me the ocean cleanup is working to be a sustainable business as well yes we think of this pretty unique organization because it's a nonprofit organization but it's also a technical start up company so it's it is a unique combination of both and that is actually very beneficial because the whole team. the engineers that's working on this project has joined because they are so committed to improving the environment so making the oceans clean the idea is that we will depend of corporations to sponsor. original. procurement and installation of the system but once they are out there. the system

will catch plastic and from the plastic we will produce new products and the proceeds of those products will help in the continuous operations. while the ocean cleanup projects is laser focused on getting plastic out of the ocean some plastic manufacturers insist that the answer is oxo biodegradable plastic separate down into millions of tiny micro plastics if they end up in salt water but laurette the proton the lead oceanographer of the ocean clean up project was stunned at that assertion. was sitting there and sorry actually enough plastic manufacturers have tried to push the idea that the european union is looking to ban them due to the fact that oxo degradable plastics fragment over time into smaller and smaller particles and finally micro plastics and why are these micro plastics so dangerous for suggesting degrades into the liquid logic looks like. it's all ignition counseling soon the sooner the business. the larger vision system is

a vision the bridge lecturing plagiarism is another understood factual english english biggest risk losing an incident like this to the regions first are getting good results they're also transmitting british missy's so it's a sort of roll of the universities a classic just doesn't belong in the new issue which is one of the first hurdles figuring out where all of the plastic is coming from in the first place one of the ninth facts of doing the clean up is but it's unprecedented opportunity just to do studies but the plastic in the ocean so we're taking very large volumes out of it will be studying. the logos will be starting the production they will be studying the languages so definitely before we we had the plastic to the recyclers we'll be giving it to our research team that can get as much data from this is possible. as we watch the project towed through san francisco bay with crystal clear skies and

calm water those who call the bay home cheered on the big blue boat its mission a mission borne out of a sixteen year old's desire to make the ocean he loves cleaner a mission that raised over thirty million dollars to complete the first full scale test and the kind of project that if it works could change the course of history for the oceans we rely on to live. to truly so this problem two things need to happen right in one head we need to clean up what's already out there that's what we're trying to do. the other half is preventing more stuff from entering the ocean in the first place. as we finish today and my friends leave it to the good folks said good old boston dynamics working feverishly for their darpa pentagon overlords to once again show us our robot apocalypse future yes good do you remember our good buddy list the walking running back flipping robot while he's out again but this

time engineers appear to have seen too many recent james bond flicks as atlas can now do park or well not exactly the death defying building to building a park or that constantly pops up with a news feeds when we are trying to focus on work alice is showing some truly remarkable skills for a one point five metre tall seventy five kilogram weighing twenty eight jointed robot with lead daryn stereo vision this is a heck of a robot. you know what will boston dynamics come up with next with a prototype of our eventual routers. i have to find out all right that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told we are loved and so i tell you all i love i am tyrrel been turfed keep on watching those hawks great day and night. thanks thanks thanks. thanks.

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see this move for you. after repeated denials the saudis are now expected to change their story on the fate of jamal khashoggi was he the victim of abduction and torture that went too far donald trump has expressed concern but little more some are saying riyadh to get away with murder. tracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year drove a truck so i chose to drive a truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation

a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and i'm just slowed down so much they lost their jobs that laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal. thank . you. that's a pretty good. look at. the cyclone that's the stop of the. nineteen people dead and at least seventy injured in a shooting a bomb attack at a college in the southern russian city by an eighteen year old student. similarities are being drawn to the worst mass shooting at a high school in u.s. history columbine with fifteen people were left dead twenty four injured.