arnie duncan is secretary of education and joins me now. mr.ry, first of all, community colleges. what are you trying to do and where will you get the money? >> we have the money. this is a hugely important investment, they're unrecognized gems. $500 million going out the to community colleges in every state with the public/private partnerships and where they're leading to real jobs. whether you're 18 years old, 30 years old, 58 years old going back to retrain, retool, green energy jobs, technology jobs, healthcare jobs. the country will get back on their feet, community colleges play a huge role. we're thrilled to make these investments in real public/private partnerships. >> we revealed today as part of the education nation experience, a new report which shows that at community colleges and four-year schools, students are increasingly not finishing. there are a lot of factors here. some of them are working and some of them have other economic problems or trying to commute to school or juggling to much. some of them, frankly, didn't have the q

. >> reporter: mitt romney denied he supported education secretary arnie duncan's race to the top program. >> i'm not sure exactly what he's saying. i don't support any particular program that he's describing. >> reporter: just the day before at a miami town hall, romney did praise the program. >> secretary duncan has done some good things. he's the current secretary of education. i hope that's not heresay, but he has a program called race to the top which encourages schools to have more choice, more testing of kids. >> reporter: the lingering moment of the night belonged to perry during his attempt to hit romney as a flip-flopper. >> i think americans just don't know sometimes which mitt romney they are dealing with. is it the mitt romney that was on the side of -- against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment? was it -- was -- he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was for standing up for roe versus wade before he was against verse -- roe versus wade? >> reporter: these three september debates have also exposed just how stark some of the cultur

our guests, education secretary arnie duncan, vicky phillips with the bill and melinda gates foundationlarship program. also this hour -- >> my question is would you please raise my taxes? >> perhaps proving that silicon valley is not really america, the president gets a surprise request from a pioneer google employee at a california town hall. today the president heads to denver, colorado

since yesterday, we had such guests as melinda gates, arnie duncan, laura bush and a panel of ten of the nation's governors. the president of the american federation of teachers. it's a great pleasure to see you and it's also to see you during my panel. you were in the front row when we were talking to administrators in detroit. they are trying to turn around the school system there. their children were scoring poorly on standardized tests. they found a way to make it work. i want to talk to you about the changes the @min station wants to make on no child left behind. it just didn't work. >> let me say not to give nbc an advertisement, but i was there for the last two days. it is really great what nbc is doing in terms of education nation. we may not agree on how we fix our schools and how we help educate our kids, but the fact that nbc is doing this is terrific. props to you. >> thank you so much. back to no child left behind. do you believe the president is going in the right direction? good in theory and was not executed well and was not an effective tool to help students. >> when

also education secretary arnie duncan will talk about the effect a longer school day and year could have on student performance. live coverage also at 10:00 eastern. >> now get regular updates of what's on the c-span networks on c-span now on twitter. get tweets once an hour including which events are live. it's easy to do. go to twitter@c-span now. >> "washington journal" is next and we'll take your calls. chief admiral mike mullen steps down today. president obama and leon panetta will take part in that ceremony. our live coverage gets started at 11:00 a.m. eastern. and the kiezer foundation released a study showing health care premiums had risen over the past year. coming up we'll talk with reed abelson. then the bureau of economic

i think that the secretary of education, ar arnie duncan is doing a good thing by saying we should insist that teachers get evaluated and this schools have the opportunity to see which teachers are exceed gd and which are failing and the teachers not successful are removed from the classroom. that is better than what the president did which is cutting out school of choice in the washington, d.c. schools. let's get a chance to talk about them. >> congressman bachmann. >> local control with parents. what doesn't swork what we see happen right now jirnlings' a mom of five biological kids and we raised 23 foster children. i got involved in politics because of the concern i had about our foster children and the education they were getting. i would pass a mother of all repeal bills on education. take the entire federal education law and repeal it and go to the department of education and turn out the lights and lock the door and send all the money back to the states. >> mr. cai glsmed a lot of good ideas, i won't repeat them. all of the programs at the federal level if there are strings attache

tomorrow on the show, our education nation series continues with arnie duncan.ps, director of education for the bill and melinda gates foundation. follow the show online and twitter. my colleague has a look at what's next. >> great to see you. any minute now, president obama will hold the town hall meeting by the professional networking site, linked in. he will make a pitch for the jobs plan from a live audience. the first time the president will hear from voters on what they think of the plan so far. he ramped up his rhetoric and calling on african-americans to stop complaining and join in the battle for jobs. i will talk with congress wmg maxine water who is calls the president's comments curious and inappropriate. "news nation" is minutes away. [ male announcer ] what is the future of fuel? the debate is over. ♪ lexus hybrid drive technology is designed to optimize any fuel source on the planet. even those we don't use yet. because when you pursue perfection, you don't just engineer a future-proof hybrid system. you engineer amazing. ♪ i thought i was invinci

i think that the secretary of education, ar arnie duncan is doing a good thing by saying we should insist this schools have the opportunity to see which teachers are exceed gd and which are failing and the teachers not successful are removed from the classroom. that is better than what the president did which is cutting out school of choice in the washington, d.c. schools. let's get a chance to talk about them. >> congressman bachmann. >> local control with parents. what doesn't swork what we see happen right now jirnlings' a mom of five biological kids and we raised 23 foster children. i got involved in politics because of the concern i had about our foster children and the education they were getting. i would pass a mother of all repeal bills on education. take the entire federal education law and repeal it and go to the department of education and turn out the lights and lock the door and send all the money back to the states. >> mr. cai glsmed a lot of good ideas, i won't repeat them. all of the programs at the federal level if there are strings attached cut all of the strings. we hav

. >> i think that the secretary of education, arnie duncan, is doing a good thing.h are failing. >> bachmann told one questioner, you should get to keep every dollar you earn. then, quickly back pedaled with "obviously we have to give money back to the government so we can run the government." >> interesting dichotomy of answers there. the list goes on. all right. >>> the president made his jobs' pitch personal yesterday with the visit to the backyard of his top two congressional adversaries. >> he chose a bridge connecting ohio and kentucky. mary bruce has details from washington. good morning, mary. >> reporter: good morning, linsey, rob. president obama brought his jobs pitch to the home turf of congressional rivals. he told supporters in john boehner's home state of ohio that his plan to stimulate the job market if backed by the gop would put more construction workers back on the job. >> there is no reason for republicans and congress to stand in the way of more construction projects. there is no reason to stand in the way of more construction jobs. mr. boehner,

arnie duncan will be there with the president in a few hours.e welcome him, he's coming to us from d.c. today. mr. secretary, nice to see you. >> good afternoon, jenna thanks so much for the opportunity. jenna: i have a bit of a confession i'm a daughter of a public school teacher. my mom has taught for 40 years and i realized in preparing for this interview that i actually don't know a lot about the department of education. you know as well as i do that there are a lot of criticisms over the departmen of education right now. let's get straight to it. i'm going to run some sounds from the republicans criticizing the department of education and i'll get your reaction. all right. let's run the sound. >> i am going to promise to advocate the a polishment of the federal department of education. [applause] >> what i would do as president of the united states is pass the moth of all repeal bills on education. i would take the entire education law, repeal it. then i would go over to the department of education, i'd turn out the lights, i'd lock the doo

now, education secretary arnie duncan will provide details of the waiver process.hat will be sent to state governments later today. the president of a nonpartisan research group center on education policy basically saying this is the beginning of the end of the no child era. president bush signed the no child law in 2002. it requires regular testing in reading and math. critics complain it's resulted in schools focus doing much time and energy on testing rather than educating children. so interesting to see how this will play out. the. saying we need to get serious about education, pick up our game, change our standards so this is his attempt to start that. >>> our time 7:28. speaking of the president, he'll be becoming here to the bay area but we'll tell you what just happened that is very disturbing just before he gets here. >>> we're live at the u.c. berkley campus where a second way of protests are planned. we'll tell you what students are demanding next. >>> also at 6:00, a satellite is about to hit the earth. will it be a splash or a crash? hey guys, what can

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