saturday night on ten eastern on afterwards, david osborne on his book reinventing america's schools creating the 21st century -- he's interviewed. >> my argument book is that the places around the country that have embraced charters the most systematically are also the fastest improving cities in the country. i'm not saying make every school public school or charter, i'm saying if we look at the data and want to do what works for truth kids let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it a district and a renaissance school, but let's give it the autonomy so people who run the school can really make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids i have to teach. >> and, let's hold them accountable for their performance and if they do a great job. >> watch saturday in eastern on c-span twos book

mental health industry, and this week on "after words" progressive policy institute senior fellow david osborn examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook for the future of public education. >> if you've got a system with a strong authorizer who is weeding out the worst schools and replacing them with schools operated by the best operators and is bringing in new blood to create new schools and is watching these numbers, that kid's going to have a much better chance of being in a keep school. >> correct. >> in new orleans 60% of the kids at the time of katrina went to schools in the bottom 10% statewide. on performance. >> yep. >> mostly test scores. >> yep. >> now 10% do. just like the rest of -- [audio difficulty] because they have a system that weeds them out. now, there are some -- >> yeah. >> -- and they need to keep weeding them out. >> yeah. >> it's not perfect, but far better for the kids to have that reality -- >> in a constantly improving system. >> yeah, than a sort of static, neighborhood-based school system in which most of the schools are bad. >> "after words" airs

. >> next, on the tv "after words", david osborne examines the charter school outlook. he is interviewed by chester finn. senior fellow and president emeritus of the ford institute. >> this book is such a treat. not only are we observing the 2h anniversary

david osborne examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook for the future public education. and discussed how mass incarceration an impacted her family and radio host mark levin warned against the expansion in the coming week's investigative journalists will report on the mental health industry and msnbc contributor will offer his thoughts on the conservative movement in america. craig shirley will discuss the political career of newt gingrich and this weekend "the new york times" magazine contributor reflects on her travels abroad and weighs in on the global standing >> there's also just a question of why did i never think this would perform a propaganda what was the job but it was doing for individual americans and i think that one thing i was realizing is this took a long time to realize the very language that we use when we talk about the foreign countries has determined for us a very long time ago because we tended to look at the countries in the east as were they catching up with us or were they behind us. >>> trump had enough resources and as i looked back on it as o

progressive policy institute senior fellow david osborn examined the charter school movement and offered his outlook for the future of public education. harvard university professor david allen discussed how incarceration affected her family. and merc mark levine, a report on the mental health industry. former radio host and msnbc contributor charles sykes offers his thoughts on the movement in america. and discussing the life and political clear of newt gingrich and new york times contributor suzie hanson talks about travels abroad and weighs in on america's standing. >> are we exceptional? why have i never thought this was a form of propaganda. why have i not thought to question where was this concept coming from and what it's doing for americans. it took a long time, the very language we used when we talked about foreign countries has been kind of determined for us a very long time ago because we tended to look at muslim countries and especially countries in the east, were they catching up with us or were they behind us? and what that does, is that prevents you from being able to see

eastern,t at 10:00 david osborne on his book.e's interviewed by chester finn, president emeritus of the forman institute. >> the places around the country that have been braced charters the most systematically are also the fastest improving cities in the country. make every school a charter. , if youook at the data want to do what works for kids, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else. we can call it an innovation school, a renaissance school, whatever. let's give it the autonomies of people who run the school can make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids they have to cheat. -- they have to teach. let's hold them accountable for their performance. if they do a good job, let them open another school. c-span2's book tv. sundays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on oral histories, a series of six interviews with prominent photojournalists. a conversation with frank johnston about his photos and career. out, hei brought oswald was within three feet of me when went-- when jack r

. ♪ >> tonight at 10:00 eastern, david osborne on his book, reinventing america's schools.e is interviewed by chester finn, senior fellow of the fordham institute. >> what i write in the book is that the places around the country that have embraced charters the most are also the fastest improving cities in the country. i am not saying make every school a charter. i'm saying if you look at the , let'sat works for kids like every public school the charter. we can call it something else, pilot school, whatever, but let's give it a tiny so the people who run the school can make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids they have to teach. and let's hold them accountable for performance. if they do a great job, let them open another school. if they do a terrible job, let's replace them. >> watch that tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on booktv. booktv, live coverage of the birkeland book festival. chris hayes discussing his book colony and the nation. the threatsor shop -- to white supremacy. and talking about free speech. book o'neill on her weapons of mas

tonight at 10:00 eastern on afterwards, david osborne on his book reinventing america's schools, creating a 21st-century education system. he's interviewed by chester finn, senior fellow and president of meredith for the florida institute. book isgument in the that places around the country that have embraced charters the most systematically are also the fastest improving cities in the country. make every school public school a charter, if you look at the data, we want something that works for kids, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else, we can call it a district school, an innovation school, a let's give school, it the autonomy so that people in the school can really make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids that they have to teach. let's hope them accountable for their performance. if they do a great job, let's let them open another school. if they do a terrible job, let's replace them. watch "afterwards" tonight at 10:00 eastern on c-span twos "the tv. -- book tv. >> the senate returns monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern to

. >> david osborne on his book reinventing american schools, creating a 21st century education system. he's interviewed by chester, senior fellow and president emeritus of the ford institute. my argument in the book is the places around the country that have embraced charters the most systematically are the fastest improving cities in the country. so, i'm not saying make every school a charter, same if we look at the data and we want to do it works for kids, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else, call it a district school, a pilot school, but let's give it the autonomy so people who run the school can make the decisions and create a model that will work for the kids they have to teach, and let's hold them accountable for their performance. if they do a great jobless let them open another school and if they do a terrible job replace them with a stronger operator. >> tonight on c-span2, hearing on the health insurance industry capitol hill. rex tillerson meeting with his british counterpart london. a state department spokeswoman outlines the lates

tonight at 10:00 eastern on "after words," david osborne on america'seinventing schools." >> my argument in the book is the places around the country that have embraced charters the most are also the fastest improving cities in the country. so i am not saying make every school, public school, a charter. i am saying if we look at the data and want to do what works for kids, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else. call it a district cool, innovation school, renaissance school, private school, whatever. but let's give of the autonomy so people who run the school can really make the decisions and create a role model that will work for the kids that they have to teach. them accountable for their performance. letif they do a great job, them open another school. if they do another job, replace them with a stronger operator. >> watch "after words" tonight at 10:00 eastern on c-span's book tv. tonight on the civil war, ralph peters talks about his book, judgment at -- "judgment at appomattox." it describes the last maneuvers generals as grand and robert e le

american history tv at c-span.org/history. ,> tonight at 10:00 eastern david osborne on his book, reinventing america's schools, creating a 21st century education system. he is interviewed by the present america's of the fort and institute. theresident emeritus of fordham institute. >> the fastest improving cities around the country. i'm not saying make every school -- every public school a charter, but if we look at the data and what to do what works for kids, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else, an innovation school, renaissance school, pilot school, whatever, but let's give it the autonomy so the people that run the school really make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids they have to teach. let's hold them accountable for their performance, and if they do a great job, let them open another school. if they do a terrible job, let's replace them with a stronger operator. words tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's book tv. >> this weekend on american worked tv, frank johnson for united press international in the 1960

david osborne on his book reinventing america's schools, creating a 21st century american education system. he is interviewed by chester of the fordham institute. >> my argument in the book is that the places around the country that have embraced charters the most systematically improvinghe fastest cities in the country. i am not saying make every school a charter. if we look at the data the more it works for kids, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else. we can call it a district school, a renaissance school. whatever. let's give it the atomic so that people who run the school can make the decisions. and create a school model that will work for the kids that they have to teach. >> ok. >> let's hold them accountable for their performance and if they do a great job let's let them run another school and if they do a terrible job let's replace them with a stronger operator. >> watch afterwards on saturday night. >> live coverage of the brooklyn book festival starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern, chris hayes discussing his book "a colony in a nation." and the of

visit ncicap.org] >> the progressive policy institute david osborne examined the charter school movement and offers his thoughts on the future of public education. he is interviewed by the president emeritus of fordham institute. also this weekend, law professors talk about how military technology is changing the way we fight wars and defend ourselves against old and new threats. >> that all this weekend on c-span2's booktv, television for serious reader. now we kick off the weekend with "new york times" science reporter henry fountain the report on the largest earthquake recorded in north america that happened on march 27, 1964 in alaska. it measured 9.2 on the richter scale, killed over 130 people and affected the southern half of the state. [inaudible conversations] good evening. i'm bradley graham, co-owner of politics and prose love with my wife, and on behalf of the entire staff, welcome. thank you very much for coming. so if you're like me, you pick up henry's new book, "the great quake" and you immediately

in the coming weeks on afterwards, the policy institute senior fellow david osborne will examine thecharter school movement and offer his outlook on the future of public education. journalist suzy hansen will travel abroad and reflect on the global standing. investigative journalist art levine will report on the health industry. this weekend on afterwards, danielle allen will discuss how mass incarceration has impact to our family. >> you can see that to the degree of difficulty issue in the amount of luck involved in the relationship with the adolescents unless you put yourself back in each of those years and think about what did your bedroom look like? what were the dangerous choices you are considering? like put those things side-by-side. >> is a personal responsibility your style? what is serious when people people ask you that? >> you cannot separate those things. collectively we build the world we live in. we build the opportunity pattern. we are building it. it doesn't just fall out of nowhere and in the world we live in, and they are very different degrees of difficulty depen

. >> next, on the tv "after words", david osborne examines the charter school outlook. he is interviewed by chester finn. senior fellow and president emeritus of the ford institute. >> this book is such a treat. not only are we observing the 2h anniversary of the first charter school in america but here we are magnum opus that tells everybody everything they ever wanted to know about charter schools. >> that may be a bit of an exaggeration. >> indeed, when i referred to it, and often think it's core message is every school should be a charter school, but in reality, you are actually painting a broader and slightly different picture than that. what you call basically reinventing the system. >> talk a little bit about the difference between charter schools, lots of them, and reinventing the system. >> we probably should be clear about what a charter school is because it turns out half america doesn't know what they are. a charter school is just a public school that is run independently of the district. usually by a nonprofit organization, and it's usually a school of choi

and david osborn will and the charter school movement and offer his outlook on the future of public education. journalist susy hansen with reflect on america's global standing. investigative journalist art levine will report on the mental health industry, and this weekend on "after words," danielle allen will discuss how mass incarceration has impacted her family. >> you couldn't see that with the degree of rickty issue and the amount of luck involved in relation continue to the hard path how to adolescence unless you putting your back in each of those years and think about what did you bedroom look like? who were the kids you were hanging out with and the dangerous choices you were considering? put those things side-by-side. >> someone asked me, is it personal responsibility or is it societal? >> right. what is your answer. >> double helix, my friend. you cannot separate those things because collectively, we build the world that we live in. we build the opportunity patterns. it's us. we're building it. it didn't just fall out of nowhere, from mars, and in the world we live in there are very

abroad and weigh withed in on america global standing progressive policy institute senior fellow david osbornexamines charter school movement and offered outlook for future of public education, and harvard university professor danielle alan discussed how mass incarceration has impacted her family. and a the coming weeks on afterwards pommer radio tv host and contradict tore charles psychos will provide his thoughts on conservative movement in america. craig shirley discussing life and political career of newt gingrich. federal judge john newman will share challenges he's faced in 45-year career on the bench. and this weekend on afterwards, investigators journalist art lavigne reports on the mental health industry. >> e opened my initial story with a person who was led out of a facility other objection of the psychiatrist and he wanted to save money and had a dream to sending his father to heaven by killing him with a baseball bat, and i profiled this example of the untreated. then, then i learned this is all in the same time frame. and then i learned through the good offices of one of the coun

saturday night at 10:00 eastern ds," david osborne reinventing, " american schools." he's interviewed by chester finn of the for him institute. >> the argument in the book is that the places around the country that have embraced charters the most are also the -- i'm not saying make every school -- every public school a charter, i'm saying, if you look at the data, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else, call it a district school, an innovation school, a pilot and thebut let's give autonomy so that people who run the school can really make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids that they have to teach. accountableld them for their performance. if they do a great job, let's let them open another school. they do a terrible job, let's replace them with a stronger operator. >> president trump inviting a bipartisan group of congressional leaders to the white house to discuss his legislative agenda including tax reform, infrastructure spending, and immigration. here's the president's pres. trump: thank you v

in the coming the coming weeks on afterwards progressive policy institute david osborne will examine the charter school movement and offer his outlook on the future of public education. journalist susie hansen will share her travels abroad and reflect on the global scene. investigative journalist bert levine well report on the mental health industry and this weekend on afterwards harvard university professor daniel allen well discuss how mass incarceration has impacted her family. in the amount of luck involved. unless you just put yourself back in each of those years and think about what did your bedroom look like. what were the dangerous choices you are considering but the things side-by-side. is it personal responsibility or societal. what is your answer when people ask you that. you cannot separate those things. because collectively we build the world that we live in. we build the opportunity patterns. it's us. we are building it. it just doesn't fall out of nowhere from mars. and in the world that we live in terror very different degrees of difficulty confronting young people co

health industry, and this weekend on "after words" progressive policy institute senior fellow david osborne examines the charter school movement and offers its outlook for the future of public education. >> if you have a system with a strong authorizer who was weeding out the worst schools and replacing them with schools operated by the best operators, and is bring in new blood to create new schools and is watching these numbers, that kid will have bee a much better chae of being in a decent school. in new orleans, citizen of the kids at the time of katrina went to schools and the bottom 10% statewide. on performance. mostly test scores. now 10% deal. just like the rest of the state. the point is thereon not too bad schools left indoors because they have a system that we'd spin out. there are some and they need to keep weeding them out, it's not perfect, but far better for the kids to have that reality than a sort of static neighborhood-based school system which most of the schools are bad. >> "after words" airs on booktv every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. you can watch

progressive policy institute senior fellow david osborne will examine the charter school movement and offer his outlook for the future of public education and this weekend on after words, radio host mark levin warns against government expansion. >> this is something i struggle with all the time, i think you do and a lot of people do which is that we reach the point where we can't get back. and we now are overwhelmed with the culture and politics and media. this progressivism, centralized government, ego materialism, of thesmothering of individuals , as it becomes so entrenched in our institutions. that there's no way to rip it out. we have to do everything we can to debate it, to explain to our fellow citizens what's taking place. we simply have no choice. >> after words airs every saturday at 10 pm and sunday at 9 pm eastern and you can watch all previous after words programs on our website, booktv.org. now on book tv we are live with author and radio host eric texas. he is the author of many books including everything you always wanted to know about god but wereafraid to ask . on ho

in the coming weeks on "after words," progressive policy institute senior fellow david os to -- osborne will offer his outlook on the pooch -- on the future of the publication. susie hanson. investigative journalist art levine will report on the mental health industry. and this weekend on "after words" or harvard university professor danielle allen will discuss how mass incarceration has impacted her family. >> like, you can't see that, i don't think, the degree of difficulty issue and the amount of luck involved in relationship to the sort of hard path through adolescence unless you put yourself back in each of those years and think about where -- what did your bedroom look like, who were the kids you were hanging out with, what were the dangerous choices you were considering? look at michael at the same moment. put those things side by side. >> i remember someone asking me is it personal responsibility or is it societal responsibility? >> right. yeah. >> what's your answer when people ask you that question? >> double helix, my friend. [laughter] you cannot separate those things. becau

progressive senior fellow david osborn, he examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook on the future of public education. in his book reinventing america's schools. 's interviewed by chester fin of the thomas b fordham institute. basically reinventing the system. not just more charter schools. talk a bit about the difference between charter schools, lots of them, and reinventing the system. >> guest: well, you know, for the audience we probably should be clear about what a charter school is first. because it turns out the poll say half of america doesn't know what they are. i charter schools just a public school that is run independently of the district usually by a nonprofit organization, and is usually a school of choice, but it doesn't have to follow all of the district rules and state rules. it has to follow us on they can't discriminate. it has give equal opportunity to get. it can't select children, et cetera, but it basically is outside the bureaucracy and they can rent own show. they have autonomy but there held accountable if they are done right. if you don't p

health industry and this weekend on "after words", progressive policy institute senior fellow david osborne examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook for the future of public education. >> if you have them system with a strong authorizer who is weeding out the worst schools and replacing them with schools operated by the best operators, and is bringing in new blood to create new schools, and is watching these numbers, that kid will have a much better chance of being in a decent school. >> correct. >> in new orleans, 60 percent of the kids at the time of katrina went to schools in the bottom 10 percent statewide. on performance. mostly test scores.>> yes. >> now 10 percent do. just like the rest of the state. the point is, there are not too many bad schools left in new orleans because they have a system.now, there are some that they need to keep weeding them out. it is not perfect. but far better for the kids to have that. >> in a constantly improving system. >> a sort of static neighborhood based school system in which most of the schools are bad. >> "after words" airs on

on both tds "after words" at 10 pm, the progressive policy institute david osborne examines the charterschool movement and offers his thoughts on the history of public education. historian john kukla recounts the life of patrick henry, virginia's first postcolonial governor and a critic of central government overstates rights.that all happens tonight on c-span2's book tv. >> i was trying to figure out my life as an astronaut, life as an administrator for education, all the 24 years working with nasa identity was gone because i had retired, i moved from dc back home and the reason i moved home was to be with my dad. and he was now gone so i had to, that was a moment of really trying to understand the purpose and why i'm here and i've been told mark twain always said the two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you figure out why. why were we boring? what is our purpose? and i was told by my editor that when i had mark twain, mark twain didn't really say that so if you look in the book, there's nomark twain reference there but i still use mark twain becau

david osborne on his book, reinventing american schools: creating a 21st century education system. he is interviewed by chester finn, senior fellow and president emeritus of the institute. >> my argument in the book is that the places around the country that have embraced charters the most systematically are also the fastest improving cities in the country. so, i am not saying make every school public school a charter but if you look at the data and we want to do what works for kids let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else we can call it a district school, an innovation school, a renaissance school, a private school, whatever but let's get it the autonomy so the people who run the school can really make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids they have to teach and let's hold them accountable for their performance and if they do a great job let's let them make another school and if they do it here full school let's replace it with a better operator. >> watch afterward saturday night at 10:00 eastern on c-span2's book

. >> tonight, at 10:00 on afterwards, david osborne on his book, "reinventing america's fools."he is interviewed by chester finn of the fordham institute. >> in the book, i argued that places around the country that have embraced charters the most, systematically, are also the fastest improving cities in the country. i am not saying make every school a charter, i am saying that if we look at the data, let us treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else. we can call it a district school, an innovation school, a renaissance school, whatever. let us give them the autonomy so that those that run the school can make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids that they have to teach. let us hold them accountable for their performance. if they do a great job, let us let them open another school. >> watch afterwards tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. sundays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on oral histories, the six interviews with prominent photojournalists. a conversation with frank johnston about his photos and career. out,e

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> tonight at 10:00 on afterwards, david osborne on his book reinventing america's schools, creating a 21st century education system interviewed by chester finn, senior fellow and -- >> my arguments in the book is places around the country that have embraced charters the most systematically are also the fastest improving cities in the country. i am not saying make every school, public school a charter. if we look at the data and do what works for kids let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else, district school, renaissance school, pilot will, whatever. let's give it the autonomy so people can make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids that they have to teach and let's hold them accountable and if they do a great job let's let them open another school and if they do a terrible job let's replace them with a stronger operator. >> watch afterwards tonight at 10:00 eastern on c-span2's booktv. >> more about the literary scene. up next we speak to howard mansfield about his book "turn and jump: how

mental health industry, and this week on "after words" progressive policy institute senior fellow david osborn examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook for the future of public education. >> if you've got a system with a strong authorizer who is weeding out the worst schools and replacing them with schools operated by the best operators and is bringing in new blood to create new schools and is watching these numbers, that kid's going to have a much better chance of being in a keep school. >> correct. >> in new orleans 60% of the kids at the time of katrina went to schools in the bottom 10% statewide. on performance. >> yep. >> mostly test scores. >> yep. >> now 10% do. just like the rest of -- [audio difficulty] because they have a system that weeds them out. now, there are some -- >> yeah. >> -- and they need to keep weeding them out. >> yeah. >> it's not perfect, but far better for the kids to have that reality -- >> in a constantly improving system. >> yeah, than a sort of static, neighborhood-based school system in which most of the schools are bad. >> "after words" airs

progressive policy institute david osborne offered his outlook for the future public education.harvard university professor discussed how mass incarceration has impacted the family. the former radio host at and be c host. credit surely discusses a life and political career of newt gingrich. federal judge john newman will share the challenges he faced in the 45 year career on the bench. and this weekend on afterwards investigative analyst reports on the mental health industry. i open my initial story with the person that is let out of a facility over the objection of the psychiatrist. they wanted to save money and then he have a dream that he wanted to send his father to heaven by killing him with a tasteful back. of the untreated. and then i learned this was all the same time frame. i learned through the good offices of one of the country's great reformers they have really changed so they gave me a two or of a modern day hell which is the ninth floor of the miami dade county jail. it is my original article. it have the photos but the narratives simply does not do justice to the

saturday night at ten eastern on "after words" david osborne on his book reinventing america's schools, creating a 21st century education system. he is interviewed by chester finn, senior fellow and president emeritus of the form institute. >> the argument in the book is that around the country the areas that have embraced charters the most are also the fastest improving cities in the country. so, i'm not saying make every school a charter, i'm saying if we look at the data and knowing what works for kids, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else. we can call the district school, and innovation school, renaissance school, pilot school, whatever, but what's give give it the autonomy so people who run the school can really make the decisions and create a school model that works for the kids they have to teach. >> okay. >> and let's hold them accountable for their performance, and if they do it great job let's replace him with a stronger operator. >> watch operator communicators. >> a look at propose legislation to strengthen u.s. sanctions against nor

eastern on10:00 afterward, david osborne on his book "reinventing american schools: creating a 21st century education system" is interviewed. >> might argument in the book -- my argument in the book is that the places in the country that have embraced charters the most systematically, are also the fastest improving citizen the country. so i am not saying make every school public school a charter school, i am saying that if you look at the data, we know what works for kids, let us treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else, we could call it a district school, a innervation school, a renaissance school, whatever. but let us give it the autonomy so that the people running the school can make the decisions and create a school model that will work for the kids that they have to teach. and, let us hold them accountable for their performance. if they do a great job, let us open another school. if they do a better job, let's replace them with a better operator. >> watch tonight at 10:00 eastern on c-span's book tv. >> next, see skins profile interview with housing and d

not only does that fly in the face of the statements made by david cameron and george osborne, in theere 100% right in saying that we were 100% right in saying that they want a european armed forces and they want a fully european foreign policy. just to remind you, ijust told you that theresa may has said she wants to subordinate part of our foreign policy on armed forces to the european union. does any of this suggest to you that we are on the way out of the european union? and asi way out of the european union? and as i said yesterday, i can only conclude that the conservative government either has no intention of taking us out of the european union in anything but name or they are simply incompetent or negligent enough to care. not care. or both, indeed. surely whicheverthe enough to care. not care. or both, indeed. surely whichever the case, the conservative government cannot be trusted to take us out of the european union or indeed to look after our security and govern us. the government far from offering strong and stable leadership has proved inept and unable to set and pursue

osborn: good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. david, the manager. we are open every saturday.ng on every week. today, we are happy to have back

mix particularly with their own mps, though i think david cameron was quite rooted in the conservative party. people were more suspicion of george osbornelt he was very ambitious and wanted to be at the top of a political party. this statement i find quite surprising, andl statement i find quite surprising, and i wonder if it's true, despite the fact he's been so open about the fa ct the fact he's been so open about the fact that he is clearly no fan of mrs may. but this is rebounding on him. people will feel sympathetic towards her. jane, do you like a drink? i do. apparently, so many pubs have shut that they are beginning to disappear from pubs have shut that they are beginning to disappearfrom many places in the country. eye—watering tax will be the death of pubs. 25,000 have shut around the country, a colossal number, in the last few yea rs. a colossal number, in the last few years. an extraordinary figure. the total has gone down from 75,000 to 50,000 today. i do like a drink, but i can't remember the last time i went to a pub. and i wonder whether the culture has changed slightly. people eat more in restaurants rather than the pub

. >> saturday night at 10:00 on afterwards, david's born on his k"k -- osborn on shhis book reinventing america's schools." he's interviewed by president emeritus of the fordham institute. in the book is that the places around the country that have embraced charters the most systematically are also the fastest improving cities in the country. so, i'm not saying make every school, public school, a charter. i am saying if we look at the data, and we won a thing that works for kids, let's treat every public school like a charter. we can call it something else. we can call it the district school, animation school -- an innovation school, a pirate c school, but let's give them the autonomy so the people that run the school can only make a decision and create a model that will work for the kids they have to teach. and let's hold them accountable for their performance. great job, let them open another school pitted they do an terrible job, let's replace them with a stronger school. >> watch afterwards saturday night at 10:00 on c-span's book tv. this weekend, on american history tv, on c-span

osborn: good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. david, the manager. we are open every saturday. something going on every week. today, we are happy to have back with us a professor who is professor of history in suny. she is been here six times. it is a pleasure to have her here. she has had terrific talks exploring early american , history. today she will talk to us about in a book.oming up jacques marquette and louis jolliet and their explorations and what they found in their expectations in explorations. how did or did not correspond with their expectations. i am sure it will be interesting. at the end, we will take questions. thank you for coming back again. come on over. [applause] thank you,lewski: david for having me here again. , i have always so happy when i'm here. my family affectionately knows the talk as my annual. it is an annual everyone looks forward to. i appreciate the opportunity. i should explain how this came about. he contacts me about speaking here, it goes something like this, can you give a talk on x and i say, not in the detail you would be happy with, b

progressive policy institute senior fellow david osborne will examine the charter school movement and offer his outlook nor future of public education, and this weekend on "after words," radio host mark levin warns against federal government expansion. >> this is something i struggle with all the time, which is, have we reached a point where we can't get back? are we now overwhelmed in the culture in politics, in the media, with this progressivism? centralized government. a phony egalitarianism? of the smoking of individualism? -- smothering of individualism? has it become so entrenched in our institutions that there's in way to rip it out? i say this. we have to do everything we can to confront it, to debate it, to explain to our fellow citizens what is taking place. we simply have no choice. >> "after words" airs on booktv every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch all previous "after words" programs on our web site, booktv.org. >> book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i'm going to star