i said well, that is academic freedom.you chose not to mention pearl harbor the day after the japanese attack. i suspect that there were a lot of classes, before my time, a specific there were a lot of classes to set aside their subject and talked about the event that was overwhelming. so i think those are the two things. interruptions by historical events that basically force all of us to confront them and classroom thinking that makes connections and comparisons, sometimes with very different subjects, sometimes with very different periods. c-span: naomi riley, i asked her about this whole business of academics in publishing. let's watch a short clip and get your reaction to this. via mean i don't know when was the last time you picked up kind of an academic publication was that even harvard university press, i think recently has said that the average circulation of one of their you know, one of their academic publications is 250 book so when you consider that a lot of those books are actually just purchased automaticall

that's what academic freedom means. academic freedom means you are free to pursue the truth.reedom of speech is something quite different, something very valuable. i'm glad that people can, you know, make fools of themselves in zucotti square and so on. i wish their -- their personal hygiene leaves something to be desired, indeed, their behavior in other ways. but, you know, it's really quite marvelous that people can do that just like, you know, speakers' corner in london. you can get up on a soap box and say whatever silly thing you want. but that's not academic freedom. but these two things have been kind of blurred together on many college campuses today, and i think there's something -- although he didn't talk about free speech in quite the same way, there is something about that that is at the core of "god and man at yale." bill was -- there's a biblical tag i always like to, when e think of bill buckley, i think of the book of genesis and the line that says god made the world and saw it was good. and i think that that really is right at the core of what bill buckley wa

journalism and it's what you typically encounter when you read about the rise of partisan conflict in academic work. what i saw to do in the book was to investigate to what extent the rise in partisanship can actually be chalked up to a widening disagreement on the types of issues that we think of is ideologically divisive in american politics. issues like the size of government, the government share of the economy, the tax code, redistributed social welfare programs, regulations of private economic activity. the social issues like abortion and gay rights, all the types of issues we normally think of is the fighting left from right. to what extent those can account for the rise of partisanship. >> go ahead. >> what i find is those issues are of course centrally important to understanding partisan conflict in congress, but they cannot begin to account for the extent of partisan conflict. conflict. partisan conflict curse on all types of issues regardless of whether they have anything to do with what we think of is left versus right. >> did those issues that you just mentioned, did they just com

you know, as a priority, versus making academics a priority. you have been able to make it so easy for one -- young people. they did not have to decide one or the other. they were able to have one and the other. thank you very much. i want to appreciate you all in that effort. supervisor cohen: thank you. commissioner norton: i want to thank the founders as well for putting on this program. it really -- it gave a number of students who were off-track a chance to get on that track, and that is so important with our new graduation requirements. they need to have algebra. they need to move on to higher- level math and other subjects. it is really wonderful to hear how successful the program was, and i am particularly so glad that you're tutors are going to training with the school districts and are aligning the material that they are getting in the summer with what we are teaching during the school year. it is so important to make sure that kids are on-track academically, that they are getting what they need to graduate. that is the ultimate goal.

where academics are just the beginning of what students learn. >> i'll tell you about one of our nation's most controversial state flags. >> i'll have the buzz on a class where you can get a's in bees. >> we'll talk with a teen singer who's really taking off. >> that and lots more, right now on "teen kids news." welcome to teen kids news. i'm mwanzaa. >> and i'm siena. here's our top story for this week. >> violence against girls is a major problem in communities around the world. as tyler reports, some college students are taking a unique approach in an effort to change attitudes. [ cheering ] >> in soccer, a breakaway is when a player speeds away from the pack and has a good chance of scoring a goal. in the new video game "breakaway," players are working toward a different kind of goal. >> the game is trying to teach about essentially gender equality, but it also tackles a lot of issues that are just generally focused on bullying and peer pressure. >> lauren and steve are part of a creative group of more than 100 students from vermont's champlain college. the students partnered with the

the summer academic program was set up for ninth grade students and summer school, or originally. at the beginning of the program, we also allowed some district 10 youth from philip burton's high school, as well as recovery programs, to participate as well. the program had 9th through 12th graders. some of them identified as 10th graders. students came from lowe, balboa -- they all came to the elbow over the summer. the program was designed where we had an hour of the epidemic tutorial every day, monday through friday, as well as life skills and job training for individuals as well. tutors were in the classroom during the day at blaboa -- balboa with the teachers. it was an enhancement of what was going on during the school. they could burn up to a $599 stipend for completion of program attendants and four their -- for their work they're doing during the day. we had a couple of field trips, one to the mission bay campus, as well as a fun day to close out the program at great america. we provided gift cards. we fed youth every day. we made sure we had everything they wanted to have

there is substantial academic research that shows that people in their 20s who come out on to a recessionary job market, a bad job market and who struck tell in bad jobs or no jobs for several years not only start out behind, they never fully catch up. as to the unemployed, again, every year that goes by where there is high unemployment and little job availability, harms the unemployed more and more. and over time its natural rate of unemployment can rise for a period of many years thereafter. the economic term for this is historisis it is something that has affected europe in recent decade-- decades. we haven't had to deal with this yet. i think this distinction is very important because as we consider recovery from this period, as can kurt aggressiveness of government action that we should demand, it is important to recognize that the longer we stew in this period, the more long-term damage we are doing. and i think people often underweight that long-term damage in the moment. >> suarez: so treading water, don peck says is harmful. it's not that you are just staying in one place, it actual

i think the competition for the amenities rather than for academics putting the money into the academic program is a great concern to a number of educators. uzi spending going up and athletics more than it's going up and academics. it's going up in dorm's it isn't going up and student support. i think it is the nature of the consumer regality that those kinds of immediate palpable benefits are ones that students seem to want to have and so i think it is attention that isn't easily resolved. >> thank you. i co-chair the house financial economic literacy caucus with mr. anamosa and we have had this for years and years. i think that it is important that it is critical for information for this to be available for the students and their parents and mr. foster, given your close interaction with students, how much of this responsibility should fall on the students to be informed consumers and our day coming to the school, and is there more that students and parents can do as consumers to help you increase the competition among the institutions of higher education's? so that they are picking th

we ask the question, is there another way to conceptualize the academic calendar, and we did. the basics of the program is simply this -- each semester is divided into two eight-week sessions with a extended weekend break between them. that is repeated both in the fall semester and the spring semester: there is a lot of stop and go traffic that happens in the classroom. you teach them -- there's a long weekend, and you come back and you're hooking up to the previous time and you're moving forward. this reduces some of that, and we have learned from students that once they adjust to the pace of it, they're intrigued with and seem to prefer narrow the focus of three instead of five scattered over a long period of time. >> that's an interesting response to my question, and i'll close by saying, is it possible that those taking that program, that three-year program, that they could work some number of hours per week of, say, 10, 15, 20 hours, is that possible? >> i think it is, if they chose to. another element of that three-year degree option is we require, of all students, 12 ho

early in my academic career, i received a professorial offer from harvard.ever, as i began to write public affairs i soon realized it would be harder to get an op- ed into harvard then -- i do hope it will achieve its practice. leadership is the offspring of vision. of pamount importance perfected leadership, it is the ability to inspire others with one's vision to dream of a better future. as a boy growing up near alexandria and resent it, my appearance was thoughtful enough to endow me with some good genes. it was there i dreamt of acquiring knowledge and of one day becoming a university professor. coming to america, the land of opportunity and without being able to speak english, mixing desert with desert. i learned of making contributions to sites. it was my group at caltech to dream and i did. one is fortunate to toeach the goal of a dream, but we cannot let our dreams to our personal gains. to go beyond i have followed three basic values. not to forget about my on the egyptian troops. second, to serve the two countries of my life, egypt and america. th

i think the competition for amenities rather than academics putting money into the academic program isa great concern to a number of educators. so spending going and athletics more than on academics it is going up in dorms, it's not going up and student support. i think it is the nature of the consumer reality though that those kinds of immediate palpable benefits are ones that students seem to want to have and so i think it is a tension that is easily resolved. >> i co-chair the house financial laconic literacy caucus with mr. khanna shows the degree to -- hinijosa it's critical that information like this be available to students and their parents. mr. foster, given your close interaction with students, how much of the responsibility should fall on students to be informed consumers and are they when they are coming to the school and is there more that students and parents can do as consumers to help increase the competition among institutions of higher education so the school fits their financial needs? >> i will say a lot of responsibility falls on our shoulders in terms of making su

in addition to academics, majors include dance. drama. fine art. >> beautiful. did you do this? >> yes. >> how wonderful. >> and don't forget, bennett's specialty, singing. >> this is really music. >> and it stays here, doesn't it? >> it does. here and here. >> just as these students are learning, bennett is, too. he's learning to sculpt. he's an accomplished painter. >> your paintings are in the smithsonian. a lot of people don't know that. >> most recently painting a nude portrait of lady gaga. but singing.

are they given academic counseling, are they kept up-to- date on the new opportunities? what kind of opportunities, employment opportunities might they have for other services -- where other sources of financial aid might be available to them? and many about our counseling department and whether our academic counselors are meeting the needs of our students in terms of talking about opportunities to go to four-year universities or colleges. and their parents, we have also done a good job of our reaching to their parents. applying for college is a daunting process and a crazy process, quite frankly. it may be unfamiliar to many of our immigrants to this, and particularly our students who want to give a lot of encouragement to students to attend the college university. i have met once today who said to me that she could not go because she was not documented. i'm hoping for some feedback of how we can better meet the needs of our ad540 students. >> i will take that into account when we write a report. we will definitely get back to you. president mendoza: other questions or

and i am committed to ensuring that those traditions are followed and is maintained as a premier academic medical center in the world. >> he will join hopkins on july 1st and will succeed dr. miller retiring after 15 years as both dean and the first ceo. >> your 11 insta-weather + forecast with meteorologist tony pann. >> turned out to be a pretty nice day today with a high temperature of 56. the clouds have started to thicken up and that will be the trend for the rest of the night. 49 at the airport. same thing in parkton. clouds tend to act like a blanket keeping things warmer. in the kind that come a few sprinkles trying to show up here and there. most of the activity in the eastern shore. most of this looks like sprinkles and you have plans, you can get by without your umbrella. here are the eyes and clouds moving in our direction and some big storms out in the plains states in parts of texas, okla., and kansas. a pretty good snow storm is brewing in the higher elevations of new mexico, southern colorado. near blizzard conditions with a couple of inches in denver. it will take its tim

the academics on top of that and homework on top of that. it's six days a week.day is the only free day. >> it is basically what they all use. expressive, dynamic musical way of dancing. it's for the greatest dancers in the world. >> reporter: it produces highly disciplined people. >> i want to do ballet and become a prima. >> reporter: she is 13 years old and has been studying for four years. >> every time i hear music or any kind of tune, i want to move my body and dance to it. >> reporter: for luis, he got a full scholarship. >> nobody reached for the arts in my family. >> reporter: for the outsider, the physical demands and discipline are what make it so challenging. for the dancers, it's serial that keeps them going. >> you have a happiness in your heart and you know this is what you want to do. >> there's not a monetary payoff down the road. they don't traditionally get rich. that's not the point. >> i love it to the point where i could be a homeless guy and i would be the happiest person. >> reporter: wendy rieger, news 4, washington. >> the academy is a l

are they given academic counseling, are they kept up-to- date on the new opportunities? what kind of opportunities, employment opportunities might they have for other services -- where other sources of financial aid might be available to them? and many about our counseling department and whether our academic counselors are meeting the needs of our students in terms of talking about opportunities to go to four-year universities or colleges.

instead of being rewarded for running so well in her world of academics, she was taken away from it and send back into the field to become a slave. that crasher terribly. and became central to her view of oppression from another perspective. her mother, -- father, male, man. not an unusual story in the caribbean and how that society reveals itself historically. but my mother took this with her and when she came to america, among the many opportunities she saw here was a chance to move ahead educationally. she went into school at the y and became a seamstress and learned how to sew and learned the alphabet herself and to get into these while pulling her children with her. what happened to me, i also talk about god has a sense of humor. i was struck with a learning disability but no one knew anything about it. i was filled with discontent, could not focus in the classroom. teachers were frustrated with my destruction. when i left school, there was always a celebration that i was out of the school rather than having stayed because teachers were overcome with my distractibility. and what it

. >> west didn't athletes will have to live up to the same academic standards in tonight's education alert. >> more rain coming from the south and cold air moving from the west. it could bring winter weather to parts of maryland. right now, it is unseasonably warm with temperatures in the 60's in baltimore. >> nearly 120 survivors of the attack of pearl harbor are expected to attend a ceremony tomorrow, 70 years since the dive bombers cracked the silent sunday morning skies. it was the day president franklin roosevelt claimed would live in infamy. more than 2400 people killed in that surprise attack. in tonight's education alert, the state has put more teeth in the policy requirement for student-athletes. the new policy will affect students in all 24 maryland school systems. >> the past a clear requirement is pretty much a standard, but there were only a handful of maryland's school systems allowing to play below that level. it is an attempt to create a level playing field in the classroom. the board of education voted to recommend to state lawmakers, revise academic standards for st

researcher, -- an academic researcher. the commission has a different responsibilities and i will go through those briefly. comparing those to other jurisdictions, there are best practices that we can learn from other places that might be helpful. in addition to that, we want to look at how we define recidivism locally. come up with definitions and come up with standards for the department that are responsible for reducing recidivism. once we have those standards, we would like to recommend some departments specific goals to make sure that everybody in the criminal justice family is focused on the goal of recidivism adjustment. we would like to take the time to look at state laws and make sure that there are -- it would allow us to better implement best practices locally. the sentencing commission will look at and budgetary savings cand costs to see if we can invest further in incarceration. and finally, the commission will work with other departments to work with facilitating training for recidivism reduction. this propos

normal people embrace this, but academics are not normal people.lker who penned a note mocking the drive where he said, "aren't girzzs paid enough to buy what they need and even what they want? what are the troops doing for us? nothing. but against us, they are doing a lot, creating anti-american terrorists in the countries they occupy." oh, yes, there is that "occup "occupy" verb again. why the word comes from tenureed self-absorbs twits who consider nose ring an achievement and academics are full on clowns? is it because carnivals no longer hire. it could say that jerk wrote the letter to impress the naive coeds but maybe he needs a real education. how about everyone watching this show now who has a loved one in the military, send him a christmas card. care of iowa state university. it's in ames, iowa. zip code is 50011. include a photo of that loved one inside. add a note explaining what they are doing for us. not to much is care package but a why you should care package. >> andrea: i don't know if we can recover from that. >> greg: want to go t

even kids who don't have the best academic skills when they get their hands on something, they realize they can understand it and understanding it excites them. >> i think it's going to lead me to go right to a scientific college, when i get to high school i might still be interested in science, and i might be doing like really good in it, and i can probably get a couple scholarships. >> reporter: ebony working, often on her own, has figured out how to build complicated things with her own hands. and that's a source of pride and encouragement. in the last 11 years, 3000 girls have taken part in techbridge, for ebony-- the program may be the nudge she needs to stay in school. >> suarez: spencer's story is part of our "american graduate" series, a public media initiative funded by the corporation for public broadcasting. on our website, we have extended interviews which spencer did with oakland superintendent tony smith and claude steele, the dean of stanford's school of education. >> brown: finally tonight, helping iraqis who helped americans during the war. in 2008, congress passed a l

in our country, people from underrepresented groups tend to be at the bottom academically.mental question we have as a society is this -- how do we ensure larger numbers of people from all races and all economic backgrounds are able not simply to go to college or graduate from college rather to xl? some of you have read at the new book -- "the social animal." each of us is a product of our childhood experiences. i was privileged to be a child leader with doctor came in birmingham. what that experience taught me as i spent a week in jail was that even children can make decisions about their lives back and have an impact on many others. for me, of leadership is not simply about the status of one person, but about the dreams and the values of groups of people, whether at university or in american society. a message from my campus that focuses on the classics -- you can create a public university that can be known as a place where the life of the mind is active. we are proud to be best in the country at chess. [applause] chess is important. you can be in a middle-class or worki

. >> we all know teens who are stand-outs in academics. maybe you even know a pair of very smart twins. but erika has a story about quadruplets -- four siblings, each one of them qualified to join a club of intellectual superstars. >> they don't look exactly alike, but these teens have a very special bond -- they're quadruplets, very accomplished quadruplets. for example... >> [ speaking mandarin ] >> ...patrick, thomas, and alanna learned to speak mandarin >> sister moria focused on learning sign language instead. what makes this unusual is that they started learning these languages before they were even in kindergarten. >> i was told that most kids entering kindergarten couldn't write everybody's name in the house, couldn't tie their shoes, couldn't read, and didn't have an understanding of two other languages. and i didn't know that. i thought that they had to have these skills to go into kindergarten. >> by the time they reached high school, the crowley quads had a high profile in their hometown of wylie, texas. >> sit! >> in addition

. >> jack academically speaking a jack of all trades it teaches american literature right and an acthe has been teaching for 33 years. >> he does not just cover the basic things he goes deep into detail. >> all of his students told him in high regards and think they are very lucky to have him as a teacher. what they do not know is he considers himself lucky to have them as students. >> we get kids who love to learn the love doing new things i tried to relate it to them i tried to relate what we read and literature to science. it is all about making those links and the transitions from what they learned in school to real life experience. >> i congratulate you and am happy to give this check of $1,000. congratulations on being wgn's teacher of the month! he says his students produce a morning news show and the $1,000 reward money will be used to enhance the deprogram. you can nominate your favorite teacher by going to our web site. >> chicago public schools plan to shutter two elementary schools and phase out too high schools. it is part of a plan to turn around 10 underperforming scho

academic probation for the past five years. the reaction from chicago teachers union fast and furious says chicago public schools a 0% success rate reforming schools. closing several other schools. spending the past several years on academic probation and >> some schools are phenomenal sum of the best schools in the country and the city of chicago but some parts of our community a tremendous need to improve schools >> based on performance district would like to shut the doors of two high-school. to phaseouts would affect 950 students. at elementary schools in west lawndale which along with walter reed elementary and best practice high-school already well into the phase-out process. they will close. all of this as the new team announces plans to turn around and record 10 underperforming schools this year. sending staff packing and keeping students in place. cps * free organization on a massive scale under new leadership. >> teachers in the buildings could do more if given the chance never been given a chance. top focus on kids f

there's academics on top of that and homework.s six days a week chlgt sundays are the only free day. >> they teach a method from russia. >> all of uses this wonderful, expressive dynamic musical way of dancing. >> it produces highly disciplined people. >> i realize that nothing else i want to do i want to do ballet. i want to become a prima. >> she's 13 years old and studying for four years. >> every time i hear music or any kind of tune, i want to move my body and dance to it. >> born in guatemala growing up in l.a., ballet provided a road out of that life. he got a full scholarship. >> i reach for the arts in my family. >> for the outsider, the physical demands and discipline is what makes it challenging. for the dancers, it's something else that keeps them going. >> you have a happiness in your heart. you know this is what you want to do. >> there's not necessarily a monetary pay off down the road. they don't normally get rich. that's not the point. >> i love it to the point where i can be a homeless guy teaching a class in the

the board of education voted to recommend to state lawmakers revised academic standards for student athleteletics is a very important part of many youngsters' lives. we have to keep our eye on that goal. >> the changes are familiar and are expected to be adopted by all maryland school systems. students still need at 2.0 grade point average or the equivalent to participate in sporting events. there is more emphasis being placed on curriculum content, and students must earn the required number of credits for graduation. >> i think his goal of the decision for students. f this didn't cannot pull a c average, at -- if a student cannot pull a c average, they should look into that. >> the result -- they say is designed to help students become successful beyond their high school playing days. >> we want student athletes that can go to the next level academically and compete at that next level. >> kids who are not doing well are going to flunk out. why does athletics have to have a higher standard, when we run the risk of losing kids who might otherwise stay engaged in school? >> the new requiremen

and partnering with a school that brings academic excellence to the anacostia community. because the more we do in greater washington, d.c., the more we help make opportunity possible. >>> four seasons ago in super bowl xlii the giants upset the patriots. fast forward to today, when the giants had a chance to do something similar to the 11-0 green bay packers. giants lead 10-7. manning with the play action fake and throws short. interception and returns 38 yards for the touchdown. packers in front 14-10. giants trail by 8. manning with a quick drop. 2yards for the score. giants convert the 2-point conversion. tie it. aaron rogers did not want overtime. completed three passes over 18 yards, this one to nelson. packers in field goal position. from 30 yards out on the final play of the game. packers win, 38-35 and stay perfect. >>> game tied at 13. bailey with a chance to win it. short and left. that would send it into overtime. cardinals' quarterback eludes the rush. tucks it inside, back to the outside, and goes 52 yards for the game winning score. cardinals win in overtim