we had one person who failed english and two who failed algebra. one received "n's" for not completion. we're excited about these outcomes. this is something we will continue into the school year. they are at thurgood marshall right now as well as philip burton. mondays and tuesdays, two hours a day, tutorials on thursdays. youth have the a opportunity to earn up to the $599 stipend. we will start that with the second semester. this semester, we are doing tutorials stuff, goal-setting stuff. we're heavily incentivizing the program. there will be field trips. we will feed them everyday. we're working in conjunction with the school district at both sites. staff has attended curriculum training from the district. tutors have received training. we realize and recognize the fact that if we are going to make this work and continue for the success, we need to be closely intertwined with the district and their goals and what they're doing with their students each day. a couple of charts and graphs to put in this, i did e-mail a final report to members of t

. >> the course work includes algebra one, geometry, algebra to, and what is called nontrivial algebra. students will need all for to get accepted into a maryland college. students at towson university will be featured in an upcoming episode of the ellen degeneres show. allen announced the taking in a surprise tweet. shelton dutes was there for all the excitement. >> we see her dancing with her studio audience every weekday afternoon, but now ellen degeneres is bringing her topic her popular talk-show to maryland and students at towson university are dancing along. hundreds gathered for a special taping of the show. >> she said for everyone to dress up as their favorites character from a book. >> we have the three little pigs. >> make way for ducklings. >> why did you decide to dress up as capt. underpants? >> it is clearly a childhood favorites, as everyone knows. >> ellen's favorite will win a $5,000 gift card to barnes and noble. >> she was actually in california from the taping, but her production crew set up this makeshift studio out here at towson university. >> she wanted to com

. >> under this new policy, a student course work must include algebra one, geometry, and out of the tube. if those courses are completed by a student's senior year, they must also take a non-trivial calls rep. -- algebra. students do not seem to mind. >> you will be ready. you'll be prepared. your teachers will know that you'll be able to do what you need to do. >> public-school official says the change goes along with what they're already asking students to do. >> we want to make sure that children do not have a gap in their math education. if anything that we can do to help prepare them for the future, that is a good thing. >> schools are making the investment now to help the students in a position to succeed. a good number of maryland schools already require students to take for math class to graduate. >> maryland will soon be adding another area code. you can get ready to start dialing 667. it will be assigned to new fund numbers. -- phone numbers. the remaining numbers are running out. the the numbers will start going out march of next year. >> starting in about march, 2012, pe

two of those four did not pass algebra. one of them received an n. one of the things that would be helpful for us in terms of engagement and keeping people on track as having the names. we don't have the names, the actual names of the participants that received what. the district could not give us that information. we have gone through the formal mou process. we will have access to everything. we will be able to follow up and find out where gaps are and who missed what, and the best way to a system. >> for those that were successful that completed the program, has the district giving you any kind of a status update or progress report on how these students are doing in this fall semester? >> the first reporting period is coming to a close and we will have the information in report cards. we will be able to track those used -- youth who went through the program over the summer. it will take some time to get that information. the district has said they will provide that for us. >> if i remember correctly, the program once -- was -- there were challenges

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when it comes to helping your student with homework one thing parents don't want to deal with it algebra. now there is a place to go to help some of that. >>> and everybody is told every year to get the flu shots. why one stud study says they may not be that effective. . >>> the school in baltimore had the opportunity to introduce its students to a new device to help them with dyslexia. the reader takes pictures and then converts them into a digital form. that form lets audio play back. the creator has dyslexia and talked about how devices like this can help them be independent. >> for kids who are eight and just finding out they may be in the club it's very important they understand they aren't broken and they are part of a larger group, a community that interested in their vision of the future work they want to be and how they will be independent. >> reporter: october is national dyslexia awareness month and the school has been dedicated to giving students with learning disabilities a chance to succeed in school. >>> a new stat survey has found there is a high stress among 8th and 9th

. >> algebra, i guess because of all the numbers. it's hard to think that way. >> social studies, because -- it interests me, but i'm a hands-on person, and i don't like to just read books mostly. [ chuckles ] >> class dismissed. for "teen kids news," i'm sam. [ rock music playing ]  >> when you go to see a rock band, you probably expect to see a keyboard, guitar, and drums. but a violin? zack explains. [ rock music playing ] >> meet antonio pontarelli, a 19-year old composer, singer, and musician who's playing the violin on a whole new scale. [ music continues ] >> they expect me to play classical music, and when i get up there on the violin, it's actually quite interesting to see the reaction and to kind of bring something new to it and kind of try to explore what other people in my genre haven't done. >> while most children at the age of 3 might be learning how to tie their shoes, antonio was learning how to tune strings. >> well, when i first started off, i was definitely just like any other toddler picking up a violin.

for most kids, doing their algebra and chemistry homework is like eating brussel sprouts. in the science technology, engineering and math fields, they are what will nourish this generation. so how do we as parents and teachers get kids excited about the stem field at an early age? mario armstrong is a digital lifestyle expert and the founder of a small biz go mobile.com. he joins us from baltimore. welcome to the program. >> hey, christine. how are you? >> i'm great. you know, you're working with toshiba's stem pourment program, talking to teachers and students. what do you hear about why kids just aren't interested in the geeky fields? >> it comes down to a couple things. number one, stereotypes need to be diminished, they need to be destroyed. a lot of kids at very early ages are getting stereotypes of what science and tech looks like. and that's bad. number two, lack of relatability. kids can't seem to relate to technology the way it's being delivered in most cases. so we need to do better ways of connecting it, which this tour does. fuel you'll find more kids intereste

you look at the number of students entering college have to take not even college algebra but remedial math, which tells you that they learned very little since sixth or seventh grade, and so the gaps keep building, building, building. part of the solution, i don't think there is one big solution, but part of it is to allow once a student is in sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade, to remediate and not being pushed forward so that they end up in college without learning math. >> you two, have a great weekend. >>> saving for your retirement or your child's college tuition? it's a decision many parents have to make, but should they? and tastes simply delicious. for those of us with lactose intolerance... lactaid® milk. the original 100% lactose-free milk. consumers er wanchai ferry orange chicken... over p.f. chang's home menu orange chicken women men and uh pandas... elbows mmm [ male announcer ] wanchai ferry, try it yourself. a vacation on a budget with expedia. make it work. booking a flight by itself is an uh-oh. see if we can "stitch" together a better deal. that's a hint, anto

in their freshman algebra class when students began complaining. several abreactions. 90 work non--- none were life- threatening. >> it really stunk. so we all laughed. >> hazmat official said initial tests were not picking up anything. it remains something of a mystery what caused the reaction. >> pretty much, they are the ones that will try to detect the attack with chemical liquid, vapors, what ever it was. >> the students are relieved that the reactions were not more severe. >> i just saw my friend a while ago and he seems fine. so thank god. >> some hazmat officers followed the kids to the hospital to get more information from them to shed light on what precipitated all of this. they told us they would not leave the school until they were confident they have cleared the room and it will be thoroughly cleaned before is reopened to students next week. >> thank you. an investigation under way in vienna tonight. a baby became unresponsive while in the care of his baby sitter and died a short time later. this is being called a suspicious death. we

the geometry and algebra teacher if said that she was stunned by the honor. received a plaque and a check for $25,000 for her achievements. congratulations. >>> there's still time to sign up for your chance to win a vip tour for two people to the country music awards. >> go to wjla.com/facebook. the prize includes air fare for two, hotel and two tickets to the star-studded awards show in nashville. we will announce the winner at 5:00 on abc 7 news. >>> a lot more still to come in the next hour. >> a tornado has touched down. we will look at the damage left behind across northern virginia? after a night of wild weather. >> lisa baden will help us navigate "the fighter" morning commute. st. >>> ahead at 6:00, a rare sight in the middle of the evening rush, or tornado touched down near interstate 95. we have coverage of the aftermath. >> a child missing and his mother murdered and a step father behind bars. the latest for the search for william mcquain. >> there was a white house state dinner and even the rain could not dampen the mood. >> live and in hd, this i

it combines lessons in geometry, algebra. and teaches focus and team building, problem solving. >> this was 600 of them. they are all the cubes. you see it from the side. pretty cool. >> what are we going to do with this? somebody didn't think this through. >> okay. we are off to orlando soon, aren't we? >> yes. we'll be live at the wizardry world of harry potter. that will be friday, november 11. you can enter for a chance to see our broadcast and join in a weekend-long celebration of the harry potter film. prizes include -- air travel and hotel accommodations for five days and four nights at universal orlando resort in florida. winners and guests will have access to a q&a session with film stars and film makers and autographed session with the cast and nighttime gala event. go to klg&hoda.com for information. contest is friday october 28th. get there now. >> the contest is on friday october 28th. >> stereo. >> evidently no. >> cheers. >> this is a pumpkin martini. all right. up next, jeff dunham is here with a new sidekick,

. >> under this new policy, student course work must include algebra one, jom -- geometry, and algebrastudents don't seem to mind. >> what they are saying, if you take four and get to college, you will be ready. >> you will be ready and prepared. your teachers will know that you can do what you need to do to get through the work. >> the change goes along with what they are asking students to do. >> we want to make sure children don't have a gap in their math education. so anything that we can do in their senior year to help prepare them for future studies is a good thing. >> that's why schools are making the investment now in ninth grade to help put students in a position to succeed. tim tooten, wbal-tv 11 news. >> governor o'malley proposed his version of a redistricting map. they avoid significant changes by an advisory panel. that has restored some of the sixth and eighth congressional dribblingts. a special session on redistricting is set to begin tomorrow. >> the new martin luther king jr. memorial is getting a proper dedication on the mall. this is the first major monument to hon

there's no statistics or algebra in this book. >> guest: there's a little math, there's a little math guest: this is a book aimed at intelligent, politically interested audiences, people who read "wall street journal," "the economist," things like that. the other work is aimed at those who want to read 350 page description. >> guest: that's right. we tried to translate technical material into something easy to understand. our arguments are general and how political organizations, how religious organizations, how corporations, how charities or any kind of urges works, and so -- organizations work. the purpose of the book was talking to students and fellow academics, and we never talk about the following function is increasing or the mathematical terms and statistics. we just give examples. we decided to write the book, and to be honest, it was a book that wrote itself. it was incredibly easy because we have this wonderful idea about how politics work and it's based upon self-interest and constraints that people have to operate within this system, and, you know, the jostling who of gets

algebra is his kryptonite.ew jersey governor chris christie made a major announcement today to say he would not run for president of the united states. i don't think you have to announce that. i think you just don't and then -- [ laughter ] you didn't, right? not only did christie said he's not going to run, he said he's not going to jog or walk ever again. >> in the end, the factor, the deciding factor was, it did not feel right to me in my gut. >> jimmy: okay, now he's making fat jokes about himself. [ laughter ] i don't think -- some people said it's unfair to attack chris christie for being fat and pointed out that the same people would never attack him like that if he were gay but it's really not the same thing. for one thing, if he were gay, he wouldn't be fat. and -- [ laughter ] i really wish chris christie was running. it would be -- i would love to have him in the oval office. he'd fit right in. [ laughter ] i had to get that out of my system. i'm disappointed. [ applause ] there were so many fat joke

happened over the last two years with the subprime mortgages crisis, if our students can learn in algebra and calculus i don't understand why we don't teach the basic concept people need to understand in today's world and that is how to understand debt, how to understand that works from an investment but not for your everyday expenses so many people are putting on credit cards and then having these unbelievable problems. and also i look at the mortgage crisis that would add if we could help young people today to understand what a basic mortgage is, then i think it would pay huge dividends as we go forward. and i think the key to improving the financial literacy of all americans is being sure that our students are exposed to this out of the appropriate levels of their education to a formal financial literacy education. i served for a number of years in the state senate in north carolina, and i was able to have a bill put into the law that required that this be taught in high school in the six and economics class, and right now there are several states, i think there's three states in the n

don't want this to be a natural re-election, referendum on the incumbent and axelrod is political algebra. if he strikes core convictions from one side he'll strike it from the other. obama has no core convictions that when he governs he governs as an unrereconstructed liberal. the worst think about romney he's an accommodationist, he bends to political will. people would really see a president responsive to the political will than this president who operated government, jammed through things against the country's will. >> whether it's a referendum on president or not do you think the candidate will be romney or do you think perry? >> george makes a very good point, we are in a very sliv other of a phase on the debate, if you go to the state, go to the board, perry's other strengths, raised over $17 million in understood 50er days, go to iowa, south carolina, he has very strong on the ground operations, he has state senators, state reps, county chairmen, christie supporters, romney supporter, former romney, pawlenty supporters, solid on the ground, even in new hampshire, former gop state

i want to make note that your algebra teacher did well. you figured that out pretty well.ith you, as always, too. thank you, guys. i'm alex witt. thanks so much for watching. you can always catch me on weekends with alex witt, saturdays starting at 9:00, sundays starting at 10:00. but up next we have "andrea mitchell reports". >> hi, alex, good to see you on a weekday. thanks so much. >>> up next, are the protests on wall street a sign of bigger things to come? who's leading the charge? plus, romney makes a big play for florida voters by going after rick perry on social security. >>> and i talk with sarah jessica parker about the struggle of balancing work and home. "andrea mitchell reports" up next right here on msnbc. the best approach to food is to keep it whole for better nutrition. that's what they do with great grains cereal. they steam and bake the actual whole grain while the other guy's flake is more processed. mmm. great grains. the whole whole grain cereal. is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. cit

is not even algebra in this book. that's an important difference. >> host: a little math, right? >> guest: this is a book aimed at intelligent politically interested audience, people who read "the new york times," "the wall street journal," economists, people like that. the earlier work was aimed at the three other academics who want to read 150 pages of calculus. >> we tried here to popularize and translate difficult technical material into some other straightforward and easy to understand because our arguments are good general. they are about how political organizations, have religious organizations, how corporations can have cherries, any kind of organization works. and so we needed for the purpose of the book as we spend a lot of time talking to students, the fellow academics and, of course, we never talk about the sort of following function is increasing and all the cactus terms and we don't get this is just all the time. we just thought, we decide to write the book. and to be honest it was a book that wrote itself but it was incredibly easy because we have this wonderful id

what is the -- the theorem in algebra, biology -- no -- >> no, i'm not looking forward to that part.5 years behind bars. jim bergemo of austin has the story. >> reporter: michael morton sat in the williamson county courthouse tuesday and finally got the news he has been waiting to hear for 25 years. >> i have recommended -- release to the court -- >> reporter: the district judge from san antonio made it a point to tell morton -- >> you do have my sympathies, you have my apologies. >> reporter: new dna evidence key to freeing morton from a life sentence for the murder of his wife christine in 1986. the evidence linked a bandanna found near the home to a travis county murder that happened in 1988, and that set morton free. >> this is new to me. so, bear with me. >> reporter: surrounded by family and lawyers from the innocence project of new york, an emotional morton said he is grateful. >> i thank god this wasn't a capital case. i only had life. it gave the saints here at the innocence project time to do this. >> i would like to say this is one of the happiest days of my life. i thank

what is the -- algebra, biology, no. >> i'm not looking forward to that part. >> that's right. >> beforenda knox is back home in seattle this morning for the first time in four years. >> her long journey finally over. knox spoke briefly to those who stood by her. neal karlinsky was there for the emotional homecoming. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: a moment her family once only dreamed of. amanda knox finally home. as she spoke with reporters shortly after stepping off the plane, knox herself couldn't seem to believe it. >> i am really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn't real. >> reporter: she was clearly overwhelmed as she addressed a crush of international media and cheering supporters. her first public words as a free woman back home again. >> what's important for me is to say, is just thank you to everyone who has believed in me. >> reporter: her parents who have spent a fortune and gone into deep debt defending their daughter could only express their thanks and relief. >> this has been a very long four years. but we c

would have a kid arriving at age 13 or 14 and be put into 8th or 9th grade and be expected to do algebrad can't read or add or multiply because he grew up in a refugee camp. they were slipping through the cracks but no one was paying any attention to that. >> reporter: no one except louma. and if the public schools couldn't teach them, she would. with donations and her own money louma launched the fujis academy. throughout the day, she's part parent.... >> you don't know how to tie? why not? >> reporter: part principal. >> do your work, do your homework and work hard. then everything will work out. >> reporter: part drill sergeant. >> if you don't have your uniform on, you'll have detention. you are cleaning the bus tonight. >> reporter: just ask 13-year-old obai, who came from a refugee camp in ethiopia. >> she's not nice. i mean it in a good way. she tells you the truth. she is always honest with you. today i wouldn't be the young man i am without the fuji coach. like my family. >> reporter: when you mess up and you know she's going to let you have it, what goes through your mind? i'm

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