i know arne duncan from my conversations with him as passionately concerned to make sure every child in america has abundant pathways towards education. and a lot of the hidden learners in our country people with special needs do often fall through the cracks, and so i know from our president of all local level we are doing a lot to make sure that we create a real solid educational pathways for every one of our kids coming and i've heard this have more conferences than i care to remember. the special-education as one of the greatest areas we waste money in america. we make investments that don't get a lot of return but they are becoming the best practice models in the country for special needs education so i know that is what the ad fenestration said. the answers are not going to come from me when it comes to education we will find the best practices and create incentives for people to follow in those best practices. so again, i am so confident arne duncan as a guide is dealing with these issues and talking about these issues specifically things they are doing but i can't tell you wh

i know arne duncan from my conversations with him as passionately concerned to make sure every child in america has abundant pathways towards education. and a lot of the hidden learners in our country people with special needs do often fall through the cracks, and so i know from our president of all local level we are doing a lot to make sure that we create a real solid educational pathways for every one of our kids coming and i've heard this have more conferences than i care to remember. the special-education as one of the greatest areas we waste money in america. we make investments that don't get a lot of return but they are becoming the best practice models in the country for special needs education so i know that is what the ad fenestration said. the answers are not going to come from me when it comes to education we will find the best practices and create incentives for people to follow in those best practices. so again, i am so confident arne duncan as a guide is dealing with these issues and talking about these issues specifically things they are doing but i can't tell you wh

obviously arne duncan is trying to put a sound to the call here, but what they doing to low are the debt that the students carry as they leave college? >> the obama straying has done a number of things, one is to increase the amount of information out there around college costs and student loan debts by creating the college affordability and transparency center and the website for that is www.collegecosts.ed.gov and you can go to that website and find information about the cost of an institution for several years so you can get multi-year tuition costs but also find out what is the rising cost that looks like for institutions and it actually shines a spotlight on those institutions that have been increasing its college costs at a rapid pace. what is the average cost of a public college versus a private college? guest: on average we have seen an increase for the 200 12 academic of 8.2% for public institutions and 4.5% for private four-year institutions and the increase has been about 8.7% for community colleges. there is an increase across the board. host: what's driving these increases a

i know arne duncan from my conversations with him as passionately concerned to make sure every child in america has abundant pathways towards education. and a lot of the hidden learners in our country people with special needs do often fall through the cracks, and so i know from our president of all local level we are doing a lot to make sure that we create a real solid educational pathways for every one of our kids coming and i've heard this have more conferences than i care to remember. the special-education as one of the greatest areas we waste money in america. we make investments that don't get a lot of return but they are becoming the best practice models in the country for special needs education so i know that is what the ad fenestration said. the answers are not going to come from me when it comes to education we will find the best practices and create incentives for people to follow in those best practices. so again, i am so confident arne duncan as a guide is dealing with these issues and talking about these issues specifically things they are doing but i can't tell you wh

we're in fact showing tape from back in 2009 when you went out with him, you were working with arne duncan, with the administration on this, trying to reach these kids and getting this great response. you've seen him on the road. you know -- he knows better, right? >> he never raised it then nor because he talking about they ought to be the janitors and all of this. so i think that it is playing politics. i think it is the kind politics that we don't need. it may play to a certain base, but not the kind of leadership this country needs and i think that one will have to raise the question to him is when did you have this new view. you certainly didn't have it in 2009 when you were touring innerciinner cities and poor areases in terms of educational institutions. >> do you think he could actually win the nomination? he says he can win. mr. romney says that he can win. they're both flip-floppers. who knows. >> thank you so much, reverend al. of course watch him tonight at 6:00 eastern politics nation. monday there will be a week long series investigating restrictive voting laws. >>> whand is

so during that i would be talking to people like, you know, arne duncan and people on his staff and trying to learn about what they were trying to do with education and learn that way. i wasn't talking with the president about any of it until the end. >> right. >> um, and be then i went in and had, you know, 30 or 40 minutes to sort of talk in general about the letters and also talk specifically about the letters in the book. >> did you ever get to visit the office? >> i did, yeah. which is just a crazy and really cool place. i mean, it's, it's like this building is this filter between the public and the president. and so if you send an e-mail, it lands on one of the computers there. if you send a letter, it goes there. if you call the white house comment line, there are 35 people that sit at a phone bank and pick up the phone and try to keep all those calls to two minutes. there is by far the most fascinating, there's a gift room. like, you know, hundreds and hundreds of people send the president gifts which is sort of a strange instinct. and they send these really, really weird things. [

i would be talking to arne duncan to limit their redeeming about education that way. i was not talking to the president about any of it until the end. then had 30 or 40 minutes to talk in general about the letters and specifically about the letters in the book. >> [inaudible] >> i did. it is a crazy and cool place. in this of filter between the public and the president for producing and in e-mail it plans on the computer, the letter, the comment line, there are 35 people who sit at the phone bank to try to keep the calls. there is a gift room hundreds in hundreds of people since the president gives and they send really weird things. sometimes like when he was interested to get a dog there was a handful of different puppies mailed. [laughter] used to be worse weedy about the history of the mail room presidents who were big game hunters sometimes would receive from gives across the world of big game animals, tigers, the gift room is the coolest place. >> spend some time with the tiger. >> i have a question. i am sure there are that years of threats. >> the first thing t

arne duncan, secretary of education talked-about president obama meeting with the president of korea.f president opened by saying what are your problems with education in korea and the president of korea said parents are demanding more of me than i can satisfy them with right now. we have the flip of that going on. here is korea in 1950 with a stone age economy. 80% illiteracy. now it is one of the great industrial powers in the world and they did that in the most hostile possible conditions and at rocky little peninsula. anyone who knows of great americans who come here and open business and go to school, driven they are. are deliberately didn't choose china to make it the centerpiece because we all know a lot of that but it is going on everywhere else. >> i very much enjoyed reading this encounter you had with president obama where he said the biggest lesson we learned from world war ii is america can do anything when it puts its mind to it but got to exercise those muscles. they have atrophied a bit. we are soft in ways that are profoundly dangerous to our long term prosperity and

arne duncan the secretary of education have a meeting with the president of korea recently into the presidentpened the conversation by saying so what are your problems with education in korea and the president said the parents are demanding more of the and i can satisfy right now. we have the flood of that going on right now. here is korea in 1950 with a strategic, become 80% illiteracy. now it is one of the great industrial powers of the world. and they did that in the most possible conditions, that rocky little peninsula and anyone knows they come here and open businesses and what to school how driven they are. i deliberately didn't choose china to make it the centerpiece because we all know about that but it's going on everywhere also as well. >> i very much enjoy reading this encounter you have with president obama where he said the biggest lesson we learned from world war ii is america can do anything when it puts its mind to it. but we've got to exercise those muscles. i think they've act provided it with ways that we are profound and dangerous to our long term prosperity and security.

so again, i am so confident arne duncan as a guide is dealing with these issues and talking about theseecifically things they are doing but i can't tell you who the city of newark new jersey we try to reinvent our practices to make sure weget returns when we invest taxpayer dollars and prieta environments that are nurturing to the children and at the end the day as i saw already kids from california to work n.j.-based and up and give a call to the conscience of the country that we may one day be a nation with liberty and justice for all for everyone. i want to thank everybody tonight. it's a privilege this is my first visit to new hampshire. you guys need a and a year in this town? >> yes camano? i have to go back. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> it's a pleasure having you here, sir. >> where didou grow up? >> wisconsin. >> yeah? >> iowa. >> iowa. >> iow

guest: arne duncan had a big press call. he wanted to make sure that reporters were paying attention to this issue. he believes the loophole is closed in the reauthorization of no child left behind. he wants lawmakers to include that language. there was a bill that was passed with bipartisan support that does include language to close the loophole. we'll see how that plays out in congress. caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. is there any possibility that this could -- that nothing could get past? what happened to those students in those schools if that happens? guest: that is a wonderful point. congress has had problems passing just about anything lately. it's tough to say whether there will be able to pass a reauthorization of no child left behind. there are superintendents who say that it might add another layer of bureaucracy and red tape and that spending decisions are better made at the local level. host: felix in woodbridge, virginia. caller: thank you for taking this call. should title one spending be used instr

education secretary arne duncan says no child left behind is broken and in september president barackbama repeated his call to reform it. >> experience has taught us that in its implementation no child left behind has some serious flaws that are hurting our children instead of helping them. and in order to avoid having their schools labeled as failures, some states perversely had actually had to lower their standards in a race to the bottom. >> michelle reese is an educator and former chancellor of d.c. public schools. when you see these figures -- first, thank you so much for joining us. good to see you. >> nice to see you as well. >> when you see these figures, what's your reaction? >> well, i think that anybody who sees these figures has to have the same reaction, which is that we are having significant problems in this country with our education system and our schools are consistently facing significant challenges in providing children with the education that they deserve. >> there's been a lot of criticism because it says no child left behind is really blaming the law and the tes

guest: arne duncan had a big press call. he wanted to make sure that reporters were paying attention to this issue. he believes the loophole is closed in the reauthorization of no child left behind. he wants lawmakers to include that language. there was a bill that was passed with bipartisan support that does include language to close the loophole. we'll see how that plays out in congress. caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. is there any possibility that this could -- that nothing could get past? what happened to those students in those schools if that happens? guest: that is a wonderful point. congress has had problems passing just about anything lately. it's tough to say whether there will be able to pass a reauthorization of no child left behind. there are superintendents who say that it might add another layer of bureaucracy and red tape and that spending decisions are better made at the local level. host: felix in woodbridge, virginia. caller: thank you for taking this call. should title one spending be used instr

through the federal investment and pell grants in direct loans, and heoa, and safra, i agree with arne duncan that we must did not continue to do more to reign in college costs and reduce individual student debt. i look forward to hearing from today's witnesses upon how we can expand affordability, access yibblet, and student success in higher education and reach our nation's college completion goals. thank you. >> thank you so much. also committee members are be permitted to submit written statements to be included in the permanent hearing record. without objection the hearing record will remain open for 14 days to allow statements, questions for the record, and other exstrainous material reveraged during the hearing to be submitted -- material referenced in the hearing to be heard -- included in the record. >> jane is from a research and policy organization that works to improve productivity through more effective management of resources. since 1995 she has also been a senior associate with the institute for higher education policies. dr. raul man han is the fifth president of grace college

loans, the american opportunity tax credit and the heoa and safra i agree with education secretary arne duncanthat we must continue to do more to reign in college costs and reduce individual student debt. i look forward to hearing from today's witnesses on how we can expand affordability, accessibility and student success in higher education and return nations college completion goals. thank you. >> thank you so much manner -- mr. hinojosa. also can the members will be permitted to submit written statements to be included in the permanent hearing record and without objection the hearing record will remain open for 14 days to allow statements questions for the record and other extraneous material referenced during the hearing to be submitted in the official hearing record. it is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished panel of witnesses. jane wellman is the creator and director of the delta project, a research and policy organization that works to improve productivity in higher education through more effective management of resources. since 1995, she has also been a senior associate with

, the american opportunity tax credit, and enactment of 180a, i agree with education secretary, arne duncan that we have to do more to reign in costs and student debt. i look forward to hearing from today's witnesses on how to expand affordability, accessibility, and student success in higher education and reach our nation's college completion goals. thank you. >> thank you so much. pursuant to committee rules 7c, all members are permitted 20 submit written statements to be included in the permanent hearing record, and without objection, the hearing record is open for 14 days to allow statements, questions for the record, and other extraneous material referenced during the hearing to be submitted in the official hearing record. it is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished panel of witnesses. jane wellman is the director of the delta project, a research and policy organizations working to improve productivity in higher education through more effective management of resources. since 1995, she's also been a senior associate with the institute for higher education policy. dr. ronald man

most untalked about greatest achievements of the obama administration are because of a guy named arne duncan that -- our secretary of education and our president have really teamed up to do transformative things and one of the things they did was to create greater accountability of schools 'cause you need accountability but greater access to laws that may empower school choice, everything from charter schools to alternative school models. i talked to the secretary of education a lot so why not? because it takes a while to scale up. >> you can watch the rest of this online at our c-span video library as we take you live now to an event here in washington hosted by the "national journal" on the nunn-lugar arms control program. >> we do want this to be a lively discussion. we want your thoughts, your comments, we welcome your suggestions on this event via twitter at hash tag njnunnlugar. we will be coming around with a microphone during the q & a session and we just ask that you say your name and your organization if you have a question. the event would not be possible without the generous supp