the secretary of education arne duncan. we have to secretaries of education, one from reagan and one from obama and we have common ground. you bet we have common ground. why we have common ground because we do have common ground. >> host: in your book you do talk about the clinton health care proposal '92 to '94 and why they failed. but that seems to be the beginning of a breakdown in bye partisanship because for a while it looked like they could be a bipartisan approach. the clinton years in which there were not great ideological struggles we still have a greater partisanship by the end. >> host: greater partisanship. but we have models of bipartisanship. look at the legislation -- each of these is interesting in their own way but you think of the clinton legislation, bipartisan stuff you had a reduction of capital gains by clinton to say okay, that is the way you like it, the defensive marriage act, welfare reform, nafta.

let me say arne duncan is 100% right. we've been able in new orleans to rebuild the school system that so much better than the one we had before the storm. and it's because we got the chance to say let's see how you would do it now with competing charter schools, public schools, various ways of doing it so i think that criticism of arne duncan was outrageous and he was totally correct. >> guest: from a life observing and hearing -- i had a guest on the show today from the american enterprise institute in new orleans looking at what is going on, and the superintendent came from chicago, philadelphia and new orleans and the sky paul pastore -- >> host: she is the hidden st in this. he's not as donner allows paul but he's the state superintendent of education appointed by kathleen, a democrat, but very much maintained by bobby jindal, the republican, and he is the one driving reform in the state of louisiana. >> guest: this is what could happen to read what i understand is there is a town of charters and accountability. they

sweating it criticism of arne duncan was outrageous.e was totally correct. >> guest: from what i am observing and hearing. i had a guest on the show today, fred from the american enterprise institute. he's a new orleans looking at what is going on and paul the superintendent of the schools came to chicago, from

arne duncan said if they can do it the others can, too. and sister fleming's team, xavier, won today. moving ahead. >> thanks, ron. >>> and now, the nervous hour is here. after all the preparations we watched, the red river in north dakota is rising. it is expected to crest by sunday morning, a bit lower than earlier forecast. and barbara pinto is in fargo, watching with all the residents. >> reporter: in fargo's heritage hills neighborhood, there's not a hill in sight. just water -- everywhere. >> this is a road that normally comes in, and this -- >> reporter: you would never know it. >> reporter: the rising river submerged barry olander's neighborhood. his subdivision is now a ghost town. >> basically, i'm the only one out here right now everybody else has moved out or in, you know, in the stages of moving. >> reporter: 14 families left last year, receiving their water-logged homes to the government. but barry fought back, bulldozing a moat around his home. he's lived here for two decades, but last year's historic flood, and this one, ha

and i totally disagree with arne duncan on that. government does have power to affect change here. there's hardly a university in the country-- be it public or private-- that doesn't take some federal money. and just to say that you would kick out some schools... kick some schools out of the tournament who don't meet whatever standards you meet for a graduation rate i think is pretty short-sighted. if government wants to get involved in this, they can start to threaten schools with losing their federal funding if, in fact, they're not living up to whatever standard they're going to set. so disagree with arne duncan on that, they can do more. >> woodruff: do you think that's likely to happen? >> i don't think that's likely to happen but at least he's raised the conversation within the cabinet and maybe people can start talking about in the a serious light. >> woodruff: kevin blackistone, we thank you for talking with us. >> thank you. >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day: house democrats laid out a final health care bill, costing $940 billion over 10 years. they point

arne duncan says if you can't graduate just 2 out of your 5 players, something's out of whack. point? >> in a way that, yes, these are college points. but certainly the 40% is a pretty aepre pretty arbitrary number. he's looking at six-year graduation rates which ultimately punishes people that are playing now for faults of previous administrations. >> tell me what happens. say a teen does not make this rule now. what happens the next year? >> the idea that like if they don't pass the rule, the idea -- the thing is it is a six-year. duncan's saying you have to graduate within six years. that doesn't actually count players now. what you're doing is if this rule were instituted, if players played five, six years ago, perhaps under a different coach or perhaps dropped in for one year or went professional, you'd punish the people currently playing who are currently not a part of this factor at all. >> so a lot of people will be bumming about the fact that it goes retro. >> the ncaa when they responded said what we use is the annual percentage rate -- progress rate. excuse me. the i

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education system with education secretary arne duncan. later, a conversation on health care, politics, and the november elections with bill kristol of "the weekly standard. "washington journal" is next. . . revelation. and the senate parliamentarian will be asked to rule. in some cases you will hear arguments from both sides. another case is the points will be raised on the floor. and you will have to make a ruling from there. a host of you right to today, a story called gop launches final move against health bill. you start off by writing the gop officially launches its last day of the dance health care reform today. tell us more about this last stand? guest: the president will sign the bulk of the legislation into law today. it is hard to quantify, 99%, 95% of the reform democrats were seeking on their agenda is going to be a done deal and there is nothing anyone can do about it anymore. at least not in terms of blocking. so i think what republicans are looking to do is continue opposing what is left to be done -- both showing constitue

and here with us now, secretary of education, arne duncan. back on the show. >> good morning. >> obviously, the problem is massive. i mean, i think detroit is one in four students drop out. the rate is unbelievable. how will the white house be using this money to turn this situation around? >> what we're trying to say to the country is that there was a time in which it was actually okay to drop out. there was an acceptable dropout rate. as we know, there are no good jobs today in the legal economy for a high school dropout. so we want to put unprecedented resources behind those schools and school districts that have the courage and the capacity to challenge the status quo and get dramatically better. >> what do you mean by challenging the status quo? define that for us. >> it means there are many different models. we're saying what's happening today isn't good enough. so whether it's transforming a school, whether it's turning it around, more time, different adults, whatever it takes, we have to make sure that every child has a chance to get

. >> tennessee head basketball coach, education secretary arne duncan, who played basketball for harvardseems to think that we ought to have a better than 40% to get in postseason play. >> this has been a continuing dispute and debate, i think he has got a great point. but you have to go back to the admissions office in college. when a star basketball player n get accepted just on the sake of a coach, which is true of too many schools in the n.c.a.a. right now. >> we all know that these basketball teams and football teams are semipro. and often kids to graduate because they need to be in the pros. -- kids don't graduate because they need to be in the pros. but we don't treat them as a pro basketball, pro football. >> but surely these colleges can figure out how to get them to graduate. it is not that hard to do. you just do it. >> some of them do. >> the whole idea of a student athlete is a farce and fraud. it ought to be paid. it is the minor leagues. let them have a salary, and not snoop around car washes and penalize them. they are not really students, but they are athletes. >> if the

have you had any talks with arne duncan the secretary of education? >> guest: i had a very pleasant conversation with him last fall and he listened very respectfully and it is clear i don't think i have much impact on him. she just seems to believe that everything needs to be incentivized and i think that is the wake of education works. i don't think that if we have merit pay for instance the good teachers therefore will work harder. i think what incentives will do will be to focus everybody more on what is admittedly not good enough tests. so we will continue to drive out everything but testing and basic skills the more we work on those incentives. >> host: let's talk about the notion of the national curriculum and national standards today. the new core common core standards are being released. what you think of this effort, this idea? >> guest: i have seen some of the draft standards and it troubles me they are going to be mandated because we don't know how good they are, and i've read them on paper. some of them in the part-time familiar with which

so now they're going after arne duncan. "the new york times." >> well, it began in chicago. i think it was in "the chicago tribune" or "sun-times." that's where the story emanated from. i would submit to you there's not a school superintendent in a big or small city that doesn't have a similar list. you need public support to move the schools forward. that is clearly what he tried to do in chicago. it's clearly what he's trying to do here. he is so angered and alienated the teachers union that absolutely they just -- >> they made -- >> absolutely. >> by the way, just for the record, the head of the new york teachers union, sends his child to private school. i'm going to be debating my new friend bill perkins, bill, his mom got him out of harlem public schools. he got his daughter out of harlem public schools. >> good for him. >> listen -- no, i want him to have that opportunity. the thing is, i want the poorest parents in harlem and the south bronx to have the same opportunity as bill and the head of the new york teachers u

but education secretary arne duncan may have the ultimate bracket here. an wants college teams to get serious about the graduation rate. so he has proposed a new policy for the ncaa. and if enacted, it would keep teams from postseason play if they don't graduate at least 40% of their players. now think about this. if duncan's plan were in place for this year's men's tournament, 12 teams wouldn't even be eligible to play, including top-seed kentucky. so we've been listening and reading your comments on this proposal. i want to highlight a few of them now in just a couple of moments. but first, we want to go to cecilia, who is joining us from just outside houston, texas. cecilia, what do you think about this? >> shame on the ncaa coaches. i'm dismayed. i thought the graduation rate is at least 50%. what are these kids going to do when the majority are not drafted into the nba? i work with some of these young men who cannot string an intelligible sentence together. they do not even know how to do a proper resume. even magic johnson had to take ehlo constituti

my secretary of education, arne duncan.acknowledge the ceo of america's promise, cool be implementing so much of the terrific work that will be implemented today. -- the ceo of america's promise. tom donahue for your hospitality at this extraordinary event. thank you so much a thank you for this support for this terrific effort. arne's predecessor, who helped to lead a lot of the improvement that has been taken place and we are building on. and i want to thank the powells. echostar with a more important pal, -- i will start with the more important powell, alma. a champion of children. a dedicated public servant. a recipient of numerous awards. she has poured herself into america's promise of lines, helping to make it the largest partnership of its kind to improve education. perhaps that is not surprising. being and educator seems to run in the family. one of her mother's parents was born into slavery and the other after abolition. both went to college and became teachers. four of their children fall down. her family has edu

this week, president obama and his secretary of education, arne duncan, rolled out their plan to reauthorize and re-think the law. >> we all recognize that no child left behind had its flaws. the time to fix those problems isow. >> brown: duncan described some of those flaws on capitol hill today. >> there are far too many perverse incentives in the current law. it allows and it even encourages states to lower standards. it doesn't measure growth. it doesn't reward excellence. it prescribes the same interventions for schools with very, very different needs. >> brown: for the nation's 50 million public school students, duncan said, the new plan represents a shift in emphasis. >> we're calling for more than $1 billion to fund a complete education, so the whole child will be a successful adult. we want schools invested in the arts, history, sciences, physical education, and all the learning experiences that contribute to a well-rounded education. >> brown: under the plan, students will be tested in those other subjects, along with continued testing in math and science. but school districts woul

education secretary arne duncan-- himself a one-time college player-- wants to ban teams from post-season play unless at least 40% of their players finish degrees. by that standard, a dozen schools in this year's tournament would be ineligible. that's according to the institute for diversity and ethics in sport at the university of central florida. it tracked freshmen who entered school between 1999 and 2002 and how many graduated within six years. the list includes kentucky-- a number one seed this year and winner of seven national titles- - with a graduation rate of 31%. and the university of maryland, with a rate of just 8%-- lowest in the tournament field. the school disputed that finding. the study also found white players have a much higher graduation rate than do black players. on a teleconference call yesterday, secretary duncan said: "if a university can't have two out of five of their student- athletes graduate, i don't know why they're rewarded with post- season play." the statement-- on the eve of the "big dance"-- did not play well with coaches. tennessee's bruce pearl, whose

the news came from arne duncan. in the basket a tough ticket. gentleman the president and secretary duncan have decided to give 1200 tick its, that means 1,200 tickets for the white house easter egg roll to children in washington, d.c.! >> reporter: when you walk in the door here at wilson elementary, one of the first things you see, this bulletin board. take a look. this shows the improvements in test scores. it is one of the ropes the school was chosen. >> a study a lot. i study reading, math. i study french. >> we are here because you are working so hard and doing such a great job. >> we will play our math game. i hope can you see it. >> reporter: together, wilson's reading and maghtd -- math scores are up 18%. >> each princual will choose which kids get the tickets. why do you think you should get to go? >> because i do good in my class and i know how to complete i my work. >> it would be nice for us to go because some of us never went. >> reporter: you have not been to the white house? >> never. or even those who haven't been there have som

. >> here is the education secretary, arne duncan. >> standards got dummied down.e every child to hit their full academic potential. not reducing standards. we're committed to reversing that. >> now, isn't he saying a similar thing to what you're saying is that the states in order to meet the standards, dummied down the standards so they could pass and get the money and that didn't help the kids. >> that's exactly right and i agree. the problem is that the proposal he's come up with which in many ways improves no child left behind, it targets 5,000 schools and says that because they're at the bottom, they're either going to be closed, their staff already fired or they'll be given to private management. i don't know of any place including chicago or any city that has closed schools and seen better schools. you have to have a plan. it doesn't help kids. >> what about the charter schools? you've pointed out that charter schools are very -- the responses on charter schools, the success rate, is very varied depending on what kind of kids they get. they get some good mar

education secretary arne duncan said the new focus is "a well- rounded education" that also includes social studies, science, and the arts. wall street had a relatively quiet day. the dow jones industrial average gained 17 points to close at 10,642. the nasdaq fell 5 points to close at 2362. and the price of oil slipped back under $80 a barrel for the first time in nearly two weeks. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to judy. >> woodruff: now, financial reform on capitol hill. the house already passed its version of a bill. tonight the chair of the senate banking committee makes his case. more than 18 months after the financial crisis and after lengthy negotiation, connecticut senator chris dodd unveiled a new financial reform bill that he said would protect the economy from excessive risk. the laej lags would give the federal reserve blank the power to regulate the biggest players in the financial system. place a new consumer protection agency in the

but i think this is part of what arne duncan's plan is national league. .. >> who i appointed like hillary clinton wife of the governor of arkansas at the time. but they turned out to be two very good people for that job. these are some of the best in national assessments that we have if ever kids are good at math but i think it is crunch time and it is funded again because we now know what it cost us with refocused it -- focus on our fiscal house in an economic recovery it does not have sound educational practice 87 would you think of the reauthorization of elementary and secondary act no child left behind? eighty-one up there are things that i like but i need to see more. they're spending too much money and the strangling of the opportunities scholarship program was a terrible thing to do it was working for the kids that need it the most but if they are talking about a real evaluation this is what is made and who is angry at them where they say if you evaluate teacher performance you have to look at student performance are the kids learning? that puts accountability where it should be so

arne duncan talked about education expenditures. they're not cutting. we are fighting two wars. debate whether we ought to be, but here we are. it is tougher times than it used to be. and what happens to@@@@@@@ @ @ now, he believes he's doing the right thing for the country. he's not trying to bankrupt the country. he believes it's important for going into a worse recession. he thinks it's important that we spend this money in certain areas. most of us think we're spending too much and we need to cut and cut some things that sound good but still need to cut. i think that's a real debate that the two parties are going to have over the next few years. host: question right over here. go ahead, please. going to have in the next few years. host: the question right over here. >> i'm from boise idaho. hardee believe the health care bill can be improved? -- how do you believe the health care bill can be improved? guest: that is a complicated answer because it is 2700 pages long. if a republican president were to come into power in 2013, parts of it could be repealed or abolished. parts

nobody has the more passionate about this than arne duncan and.ot and cannot be the taskÑi of to take nonprofits and businesses doing theirÑi part, through alliances like america's promise. it will take parents getting involved in their children's education consistently. going to parent-Ñiteacher i children with a homer. i just went to my daughter's parent-teacher conference last week. she is doing very well, by the way. [laughter] it will take students showingçó up to school on time and paying attention and staying out of trouble. education is an active activity. educating our sons and daughters is a task for all of us. making sure none of us thinkxd it's someone else's job. we all except our role to play in making sure that we have the best educated citizenry in the world. that's is what has made the 20th-century and that is what will make the 21st century the american century. there is an old story that collin is told. he lived about 100 years ago. george was a janitor. his job was to clean up after the artist, french. some of you may of heard

arne duncan talked about education expenditures. they're not cutting. we are fighting two wars. can debate whether we ought to be, but here we are. it is tougher times than it used to be. and what happens to families, they tighten their belts and cut out some expenditures. this president is not cutting anything. he went to every cabinet and secretary and said, let's stilt -- let's spend more. he believes he is doing the right thing for the country. he thinks the spending is important to prevent us from going into a worse recession. he thinks it is important to spend money on these different areas. but some of us think it is not sustainable. we need to cut some things that sound good, but still need to cut. i think that is a real debate that the two parties are going to have in the next few years. host: the question right over here. >> i'm from boise idaho. hardee believe the health care bill can be improved? -- how do you believe the health care bill can be improved? guest: that is a complicated answer because it is 2700 pages long. if a republican president were to come into po

i was on cnn the other day with the secretary of education arne duncan. we have to secretaries of education, one from reagan and one from a bomb at the have common ground. you bet we do. what we have common ground? because we do have common ground. >> host: in your book, "a century" "a century turns" comic books, it seems to be the beginning of a breakdown in bye partisanship because for a while it looked like there could be a bipartisan approach. the clinton years in which there were not great ideological struggles we still had great partisanship by the end. >> guest: greater partisanship. yes, but we have some models of bipartisanship. look at the legislation -- each of these is interesting in its own weight. you think of the clinton legislation bipartisan stuff, you had a reduction capital gain by clinton say okay, that's why you like it. the defense of marriage act, welfare reform, nafta. i remember jack kemp and by being in power in iraq when president clinton's a lot to support bill bennett, jack kemp and bill bennett, for their support of nafta. we

have you had any talks with arne duncan the secretary of education? >> guest: either very great conversation with him last fall and he listened very prospectively and i don't think ahead very much impact on them. he just seems to believe that everything needs to be incentivized. i think that's not the way education works. i think if there's merit pay for instant, good teachers would therefore work harder. i think what incentives will do will be to focus everybody more for admittedly good enough test. who continue to drive out everything but testing of basic skills. the more we focus on those incentives. postcode let's talk about the notion of the natural curriculum and national standards today, the new, core standards are being released. what do you think of this effort, what to think of the idea? >> guest: well, i've seen some of the draft standards. i think it troubles me that they are going to be mandated because we don't know how good they are. and i read them on paper. some of them and the part that i'm familiar with which is the english language

about 200 students as part of the close the program, a conversation with the secretary of education arne duncan. thank you for being here. let me begin with an "newsweek" cover story that said we have to fire the bad seed. how do you do that? guest: what we need to do it is support great teachers. an overwhelming number of teachers around the country do a fantastic job. i do not think we do enough to recognize and encourage them. were you have some teachers at the bottom who have to support, where they are not getting better, yes, we need to remove them. our students have only one chance to get a great education. host: we are going to get to student questions in a moment. generally, what is the role of the department of vindication? guest: we think expectations for students have been far too low. we want to have college and career-ready standards for everyone. due to political pressure, i think standards have been dumbed down. we want to raise the bar. we want to see where we have schools improving. we want to make sure that we have a well-rounded curriculum one thing i am hearing is that they

. >>> education secretary arne duncan says that reading skills among american students are not up toccording to test scores. the latest figures for fourth and eighth graders shows students had little to no improvement. it's a similar situation for math skills. fourth graders are showing no improvement but among eighth graders there was a slight improvement in math scores. >>> the u.s. and israel have apparently failed to heal their deepest dispute in decades. a meeting last night between israeli prime minister netanyahu and top diplomat george mitchell failed to produce any resolution. netanyahu had postponed leaving washington twice because he wanted peace talks to move forward. the obama administration is unhappy with israel's development in areas claimed by palestinians. >>> the obama administration will announce plans later today making it harder to throw someone out of the military for being gay or lesbian. it comes as the defense department tries to figure out how it will revise its don't ask, don't tell policy. under the new guidelines to be announced by defense secretary robe

changes proposed, arne duncan plans to go before congress today. he will talk about what he would like to see changed. there are concerns raised by union leaders. randi weingarten, head of the teachers' unions says the teachers alone cannot turn around struggling schools. i also want to take a look at this from politico looking at today's planned for secretary duncan to go before congress. the blueprint they write is not only a plan to renovate a flawed law, but to revamp education. finally, this from "usa today" looking at pain pills and how they're being used by troops. it concerns the pentagon. the military is trying to curb the number of narcotics given to troops. drug abuse continues to soar. let's return to your calls. we're looking at campaigns heading into the 2010 elections and the chamber of commerce's plan to spend $50 million on elections. caller: i have never heard of such a thing with the chamber of commerce is jumping into public business like this. this is part of the policy of big business, where they will turn the whole country in

the director of education, arne duncan went out of his way to say that school has an 87% teacher absentee rate. that's a lot. >> secretary duncan wanted to make sure that you were aware of that number. this is going on across the country. the threat of this. and a lot of people are paying attention and saying this could happen elsewhere. >> reporter: yeah. and i think there's a real chance you will see this type of group firing or radical steps to fix troubled schools the president has made this a real priority. >> dan, thanks so much. >> it's part of the effort we're going to talk to general and mrs. powell about in our next hour. >>> we turn to the definition of a high-class problem. here it is. after falling in love with the world's most expensive house, you decide it's a little too much house than you can afford. you walk away from the deposit, $53 million. nick watt has the story. >> reporter: mikhail provorov, is a billionaire, with a taste for the beach. three years ago, he offered $500 million for this crib on the french riviera. it was built for a king. 11 bedrooms. 14 bathrooms.

obama and arne duncan are helping this by saying here's $4 billion race to the top to help states in the consortium to arrive at these examinations. as you well know, our tradition, federal government can't dictate the curriculum. but it can facilitate this by saying here are the right incentives for you voluntarily, collectively, to find a way to get this done. now, this is exciting stuff. it's -- just compare with health care on how we are polarizing health care. we have a bipartisan group of governors and others saying we need to do this because they understand. finally, technology has got to be a strong part of this. every time i see, you know, the can. >> or a new laptop, there's going to be a revolution and a way in which we assist students to learn, assist teachers to teach, and hold ourselves accountable. you know, i have 19 grandchildren that i can look at their medical records which are committed and you can see the health of the child and say, hey, this is what we need to do to make that life work for you. we're going to have that kind of educational record for every child

. >> arne duncan, speaking earlier today on "good morning america, says that the president's educationlan is looking to make some dramatic changes. rather than focusing on grade level proficiency, it would work to get students ready for college or a job. the secretary added that the administration hopes congress will pass the measure this year. it pentagon spokesman commenting earlier said that a report that a defense department official hired private contractors for intelligence gathering in afghanistan and pakistan raises serious questions that warrant further review. the report is in sunday's "the new york times." the private operation violates u.s. policy against using contractors as spies. census forms for 120 million residents are in the mail. it is used to divide and rational seats and $400 billion in congressional aide. if everyone that it's a form sends it back, the government will save $1 billion in follow- up visits. the national highway traffic administration says that there might never be an answer to the alleged sudden acceleration incidents involving a cuyahoga prius in

moreover, last august, secretary of education arne duncan sent a letter to each chief state school officerthat officer to review the current policies and guidelines regarding the use of restraints and seclusion in schools to ensure that every student is safe and plo tected. -- and protected. however, instead of waiting until the department of education completes its review to see how widespread the problem of harmful seclusion and restraint techniques are, the bill establishes a federal one-size-fits-all mandate to a problem that there's not yet a thorough understanding and that would otherwise be handled at the state level. we know increased increased federal regulation do not equal results, especially then it comes to education. despite washington spending hundreds of billions of federal dollars since 1965 in public education, test scores have not improved. instead, we should be focusing on enforcement of current state procedures adressing seclusion and restraint of students. it's my belief that state and local governments can identify student needs and determine the most appropriate reg

also today, education secretary arne duncan is expected to outline new efforts to enforce civil rights issues. he speaks in selma, alabama. c-span radio will hear the remarks later today. the general ray odierno speaking today on "the early show" said the iraqi military performed superbly in yesterday's mostly peaceful election. the plan to remove combat troops from the country is proceeding on schedule. he added every sign points to iraqis being able to form a new government. defense secretary robert gates is in afghanistan checking on the progress of the war there. meanwhile, 30,000 additional u.s. forces are now arriving, most will be in place by summer. stanley mcchrystal says that any heavy fighting in canada are will wait until the troops are ready. -- ken the harkandahar will wail the troops are ready. >> over 1000 middle and high school students entered this year's studentcam documentary contest. we will announce the 75 winners on march 10. host: former epa head had and governor of new jersey, christine todd whitman is with us to talk about energy. you are the co-chair of the c

we meet here to hear from the second of education, arne duncan, on the blueprint that was made public this week and to discuss that with members of the committee. this was done at the urging of the bipartisan group and the house and the senate that the secretary has been meeting with, and that has been meeting on the reauthorization of the esea, so thank you, mr. secretary, for doing that. and i will recognize myself at the beginning and then recognize congressman klein. today secretary duncan joins us to discuss president obama's newly released blueprint for rewriting the elementary and secondary education act. thank you, mr. secretary, for being with us. two weeks ago, you outlined president obama's vision for providing a world class education for every child in this country. you told us the status quo is failing our students, you told us a strong education system is key to long-term economic stability, and members of the committee on both sides of the aisle agree. right now even our best students are performing atd lower levels at math than students in 22 countries. a number of stu

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education secretary arne duncan goes to capitol hill tomorrow to testify on the president's proposalto overhaul that no child left behind at 3 live coverage of the education committee at 2:30 p.m. eastern time on our companion network, c-span3, and on our web site, c- span.org. >> c-span -- public affairs content available on radio, television, and on line. you can also communicate with us on pointer, facebook, and what -- one twitter, facebook, and youtube. >> timothy geithner told congress today that the worst days of the economic crisis are behind this. he is testifying with other top of ministration officials before the house appropriations committee. he also warned that u.s. debt levels are unsustainable. this hearing is 3.5 hours. >>> good morning, everybody. we are here today to discuss the budget and the economic situation and plans for the coming year. these plans need to be put in proper context. president obama inherited four major cost drivers, the cost of two wars, the cost of t.a.r.p., the revenue losses due to the economic downturn. and the revenue loss due to two unpa

under the leadership of an outstanding education secretary, arne duncan, we launched a race to the top, through which states compete for funding by committing to reform and raising standards, by rewarding good teaching, by supporting the development of better assessments to measure results, and by emphasizing math and science to help prepare children for college and careers. and on monday, my administration will send to congress our blueprint for an updated elementary and secondary education act to overhaul no child left behind. what this plan recognizes is that while the federal government can play a leading role in encouraging the reforms and high standards we need, the impetus for that change will come from states, and from local schools and school districts. so, yes, we set a high bar -- but we also provide educators the flexibility to reach it. under these guidelines, schools that achieve excellence or show real progress will be rewarded, and local districts will be encouraged to commit to change in schools that are clearly letting their students down. for the majority of schools

tomorrow, >> now education secretary arne duncan who is our guest on this morning's "washington journal. this interview took place at the national archives with an audience of local high school students. it is just under an hour. >> host: and good morning from the national archives. we are situated between constitution and pennsylvania avenue just adjacent to the national mall, a building that first opened back in 1935 and holds three main documents that serve as the foundation for our country: the declaration of independence, the u.s. constitution, and the bill of rights. you'll also find a copy of the magna carta, the emancipation proclamation, and census data. we are inside the archives with high-school students from ten states. all part of the close-up program for my conversation. let me begin with a newsweek cover story. we must fire the bad teachers. how do you do that? >> guest: that is a little simplistic answer. we support great teachers and do a much better job of that. the overall majority of teachers around the country to end a store near a job and go far beyond the duty. we

and listen to this, secretary of education arne duncan moved his family to virginia, saying, "i didn'tant to try to save -- i didn't want to try to save the country's children and our educational system and jeopardize my own children's education." hear that? "i don't want to try to save the country's children and our educational system and jeopardize my own children's education." he's got that opportunity. these people that take advantage of the program don't have that opportunity. to quote former d.c. mayor, anthony williams -- quote -- "it's only fair to allow income -- low-income parents the same choices that we all have: to select the best educational environment for our children." in a letter to senate democrats regarding the d.c. program, the national education association wrote -- quote -- "throughout its history, n.e.a. has strongly opposed any diversion of limited public funds to private school schools." unfortunately, the letter neglects the fact that the scholarships were designed according to a three-sector approach under which not a single dime has been cut from public sch