we have an office of computer science education. we have a director and a staff that helps push this out daily to lead this effort. and then he is here, the director of computer science has done an extraordinary job and then you have to have an executive leadership. in my case, it's me. i'm the governor and it's my initiative i'm out there advocating for it every day. i've become a little bit renowned because each year the number of students and the list of all the schools and how many students were in each school and i saw one that had zero students taking computer science and i knew that it was a large school so i called the superintendent and said, i got his voicemail and i said this is the governor and i know the statistics i'm getting have to be wrong because you have such a progressive school. but my information as you have zero students taking computer science. would you give me a call back. the superintendent got busy and had soon 100 students in the classroom and they've marched on. but it takes that kind of leadership. we

it starts on the campus and hudsonville warhead undergraduate education, or my sister was educated or my uncle was a drum major my mom went to school. and this is an 1875. about when i go to the university of alabama and i'm right down the street. so imagine you are there, you're driving ten minutes down the road to an institution that was founded 75 years after your own. it's like lifting a veil their newly constructed buildings, the grass was finally manicured and the school look like it received a facelift within the last few years or at the very least had benefited from some good maintenance. one site settled in at the libra did a little bit of digging. it was founded in the 1950s in part because segregation was the law. their two colleges for black students in the city oakwood university a private seventh-day adventist college in alabama a&m which is publicly funded. but white students could not attend either. segregated black and white students is known to section 256. has not officially implement in 1901 the state adopted its constitution walking into an educational system with

>> higher education. again, north carolina, georgia, alabama, mississippi, all of these have settled and are no longer under federalut monitoring, but since they have not lived up to the agreement of their settlement it may be time for them to reopen those cases and take a second look and say have you actually eliminated the discrimination. >> right. such an important-- though many important things think about and urgent, really urgent you know to think about the future and inequality in growing inequality and the impacts of the economic downturn despite such really incredibly important story and amazingg book. everyone, click on that link. order a copy. adam, thank you for writing this book and kate thank you for inviting me and having me as part of this important conversation. >> thank you. >> we will have another round of thank youse. thank you again tremendously to adam and natasha for sharing knowledge and for your perseverance. awesome, great job, both of you. thank you, everyone for spending the be

i am a senior education fellow at the foundation for economic education, for celebrating our 75th year, anniversary, of the country's oldest free market thing chain, and a scholar at the cato institute of the freelance writers, at forbes, and as you mentioned, the author of an schooled. which came out in 2019, but had renewed interest over the past year, or plus, given the school shutdowns, and the upsurge in interest in home schooling, and alternatives to school. particularly, was school shutdowns, and delayed reopening plans. on the practical level, have you've been a teacher in the classroom, or do you have children more of school age? >> so, i am a home schooling mom myself. i have four children who have never been in school, who are interim seven, to 14. so, from personal experience and reflection. i travel the country in writing the book to visit other how they're home schooling families, as well as self directed learning centers, and other schooling alternatives, that are cater to families, looking for something different. something more customized for their children's education

our educators implemented that. the biggest gap, i mentioned the teacher trained and certified for teaching computer science, but there are so many in industry that would come into the classroom, would tell real-life stories, that would be such a great tool for the students to hear from the industry side. that is the hardest part to connect. people in the technology business are busy. they are doing their work. they are doing what their mission is. we have to get them connected more on the education side just to mentor, to help the teacher showcase the opportunities for the young people. thank you for the question. i think it is a balance we need to continue to strive for. >> ok. any other questions out there? we have one in the back. >> good afternoon, governor. thank you for your time and leadership. i lead a small business unit at reuters. i appreciate your point about data analytics in the context of national security. is also important in the delivery of system services and program integrity. i am curious if yo

we are asking you about that issue that came up, education, and what role parents should play in educationthe phone lines are (202) 748-8000 for parents, (202) 748-8001 for teachers and all others it is (202) 748-8002. joe's first in summit, new jersey. what role should parents play in public education? caller: they should play a role. with racial stuff if they keep talking about racial stuff, it is going to be everybody, black-and-white. they shouldn't talk about it. it is as simple as that. it will eventually go away. it has been going away ever since the 1960's. you are still going to have people saying this and that on both sides. like, they are prejudice against this, they are prejudice against that. the blacks say it and the whites say it about each other. the democrats are leaning toward the black and they accuse the whites of being racist which is not so and they could do the same with the blacks. they don't like the whites but what is the difference? they are all human, you know? host: asking you what role parents should play in public education. michael in south portland, maine.

: : ewhat our view of hyatt higher education? >> the ranking system was intended originally to allow students and their parents as hundreds of thousands of choices of universities and you have a basis to compare them. something we see in the book. universities do things like change their course offerings, what they spent money on the ration of students to professors that gives them a higher ranking in and world report one of the agreed just ones is the more exclusive that they reject that can be used to booster the rankings and some of the other systems. what does that mean? they encourage studentss to appy and that they are never intending to take so harvard, princeton, yale wasn't when students were probably not going to get into harvard of why because that adds another rejection.s to me this is an extremely unethical act wasting people's time and money into something they are not going to be offered by that university to increase the prestige of the university to gain the rankings. >> host: would you do it differently today? >

we have para educators, climate educators in our building. we have to work with higher ed to make sure there are quicker and clearer pathways to get into the profession. i saw a great program at university of wisconsin, madison where they're doing that. they have folks interning and getting a job in the school for their masters. there is a program to accelerate this, especially special education, bilingual education and other areas. but we have to make sure we're elevating the profession by ensuring people are safe, let's start there, and make sure we're promoting the profession as a viable option and that teachers are getting a livable wage as well. >> senator collins and i have a bill called the prep act that is very focused on increasing new pathways into the profession and attracting more people. i think it would accomplish a lot for the schools. looking forward to working with you. >> thank you. >>> senator braun. >> thank you, madam chair. i have twodona and one for secretary sara. i know schools across the country are trying to reopen,

department of education. and arizona state university. our goal was to provide a framework for rebuilding history and civics learning for all learners k-12. what exactly is in this? the first and most important thing is it offers an inquiry framework, a review of the question that all learners k-12 have a chance to encounter as they work to bring together the historical understanding of narratives about the past and civics understanding about our government, institutions, the foundations of democracy, right and responsibility. bringing them together rather than giving people a list of what they should know, proposing questions every learner should have a chance to those questions are structured in 7 themes. i want to name those themes because it is important to understand what they are to understand the focus of the question. physics participations one. what is the? why do we evaluate it? the changing landscape. how is it the geography of this country is changing our borders and boundaries, how have we come t

as the department of education, we are service agency. we are supporting districts to implement arp funds and sharing best practices. we released multiple resources and can be in conversations with education leaders to provide support for schools and districts. we spend a lot of time listening. our work is far from over. we have seen great progress on the biden administration took office 23% of k age schools were operating fully remote. by may, just 2% were remote. i am proud to say we will be watching watching a data dashboard soon to see reopening data throughout the country in realtime. currently, 9% of school districts are fully reopen for in-person learning. only a handful are utilizing hybrid or remote models from brief periods to contain the spread of covid-19. while we must stay vigilant, i am proud to say that an increase in a variant of covid-19 about a month before school started, america is back to school. moving forward, we will promote health and safety in schools, we will support students social, emotional needs, and we wil

>> i believe that parents are important stakeholders but educators also have a role in determining educational programming. >> i think that is going to be a little out of focus on what you will find across education. because they pay the bills, they raise the kids, they probably need to be the primary spokespeople for their own kids good education. should parents have more school options, including private schools? >> as i said, in previous hearings, i believe public education in schools should be the first and best option. parents should have option and i believe they do across the country. >> so it sounds like you think there may need to be more options. i came from a great public school system. i think competition and choice always exceeds any other things when you want to get quality in something. should the money follow the student or should follow the school? >> i believe education system should have strong schools for all students. we need to make sure that we invest in public schools because for some students, that is their only option. we need to have that be a high quality option for

and educate them. the manufacturing career. and as the committee considers the next app i watching the suggestions, first because early matters. consider this policy in conjunction with education. education policies are not flexible enough to our students for pathway, they ultimately bypass even the best opportunities predict and second, i urge you to prioritize the reauthorization and in doing so, the committee should continue to legislate change the further increase participation in our workforce system rated the same usa system that employers want to and can drive workforce development to height and i this opportunity to testify before you read a book forwarded to the q&a. >> thank you so much and for all that you are doing for the workforce. now i'll ask a few questions and then i will turn it over to the senator and rotate back and forth and interrogate you with a broad cross-section of u.s.er senators. let's start with mr. ginsberg, give me just, why is it giving the enemy deities are so importan

>> senator, for me as an educator, early childhood education is the foundation for a strong educational. >> totally agree but why do we have to pay for it twice? >> i've seen the benefit of it and i know for many families, their ability to get back to work and add to their income is -- >> i'm perfectly happy with providing funding to families so they can provide child care for their child. i think they ought to have the choiceap of providing it themselves if they want to, either with a family member or spouse or number two, sending a child to a childcare facility of their choice. but to say you're going to do that and we are also going to give you public school childcare, that's two programs doubling the cost and taking the incentive from the people that might choosems to have the child care at home. i think my time is up. i'm sorry. backde to you. >> thank you, senator romney. senator marshall. >> okay. thank you, madam chair and thanksto to the secretary for being here. to talk about the intersection of healthcare and education, something thater is near and der to so many of us. if we

that is your intro to english, intro to get a well-rounded education. over many, many decades they have accrued in such a way a lot of these classes in the way of content but we look at the book at some survey data where they ask incoming freshman basic questions about knowledge and critical thinking. two years later after the end of their sophomore they asked the same questions there's basically no difference on the amount of materials they learn paid no improvement at critical thinking skills. these are all from the years they spend in college taking the jen and classes. so he asked the question why are remaking students take multiple into tens of thousands of dollars taking mandatory classes for getting a degree and they aren't not learning much in those classes. they have figured a way to lobby the curriculum to make their classes mandatory what is that mean? you can hire more faculty, the english department may be declining in majors over all. as hundreds of students coming to its classroom every semester because are simply required to be there to

you better start educating your own, because their education system doesn't educate people anymore. we indoctrinate. we bring them in and we don't teach the things they need to teach to use her hands. we better start teaching people to use their hands instead of their brains. we have to do that. that's what you are you can have a great life, you can also have fun doing it. i'm here today because of that. i want to thank you, we have a community college in alabama that has one of your partnerships. how does his partnership really work? how do you get involved at community college? >> we have five partnerships in your state. the coalition, which is the federation -- we pulled together in small, medium, and large businesses. we market to all businesses with the school system. we look at the curriculum of the school system, we help change that curriculum to meet the business needs. we have over 400 companies, small, medium and large with 32 different community colleges involved in our technician program. it is ran by that manufacturing institute now. it works very well, we also teach th

'ust education. ., ., . ., education.erence in belfast and criticised the northern ireland political thing it damages the peace process and needs to be replaced. i make no apologies for not supporting a protocol that damages the belfast agreement. as a senior eu official said to me recently, the protocol doesn't damage the belfast agreement as much as brexit but they accepted it does damage it. 0mits many issues, the protocol has a built—in instability that will raise tensions every time we have an election as articles five to ten are voted on. every four years. from the sectarian headcount we are about to begin a protocol headcount which will take precedence over all other issues. the protocol must be replaced with a treaty that works for all of the people on this island. this means no trading borders, north, south, east and west. there cannot be a border in the irish sea. applause that was doug beattie there. investigative journalist dmitry muratov has told the bbc he is dedicating the nobel peace prize, which he was aw

stakeholder. >> i think educators have a role in determining educational programming. jeanine: that was the education secretary sidestepping the question whether parents should be in control of their child's education. who should be? the government? so kid can learn to come home and tell their parents how racist they are? lara, what do you think about that statement? >> they are not trying to hide what they are doing anymore. it's absurd. to hear this from the education secretary. they are not hiding it. your children are part of their new world order. their plan is to socialize america whether you like it or not. and if the collateral damage is take any patriotism out of our children's lives, making sure they hate one another, if you want to socialize a country, you don't want your student to be proficient in reading and math. you want to indoctrinate them with critical race theory. you don't want them to have tools when they leave school because then they will be reliant on the government. judge jeanine: for a while it was keep it on the down low. but when you hear t

it was like we've lost the global lead in having the most educated workforce. we had that and the early '90s, and he said we want to regain this lead by 2020. 2020. because of the countries like south korea had surpassed us in that measure. he was like lbj where he was worried about of the country surpassing us. lbj was worried about the civic union. barack obama was worried about south korea and other emerging countries that were really getting more educated workers and so we said let's expand the number of people who are going to college and grad school. he recognized the were some problems with student loans. my checker in the book on barack obama it's interesting chapter but i try to maintain -- you recognize a lot of problems with lending and had a lot of ideas to fix some of the problems but he did really buy into this notion that college is this is t investment that everyone should take part in. inherently that would require an increase in student loans. so getting back to the great recession which lasted through 2009 but even after 2009 the unemployment

bill help pay for family members' education? i guess to rephrase that, did it pay for family members' education during world war ii, or is it exclusively for these -- >> yeah. yeah, that's a good question. the original g.i. bill was exclusively for service members and, in fact, gold star widows wanted to draw on some of the g.i. bill benefits, and they were turned down initially. eventually, the law was changed so that widows and dependent family members could use the g.i. bill benefits, but that came later on in the process. and the laws were also changed to allow, actually, service members while on active duty to use the loan guarantee benefits and the education benefits. but that came later on in the '70s and '80s. >> absolutely. so, katie, can you address mental health care in the immediate post-world war ii era? was there any lessening of -- related to mental health, or was it just not really addressed at that point? >> absolutely, that's a great question. so again, that kind of mental health is an issue that kind of evolve

and also giving those two schools of education which are so nonpartisan. they are 50/50 republican/democrat ofistration on the faculty schools of education for their very open to conservative o positions. sign for closing statements. >> civics is a different thing. it is a relationship. for these students and what we want to do is build a good positive relationship. i don't think the reflective patriotism is enough for most students that we need something more fervent than that. and we need some fire. the curriculum has to have inspiring and what's becoming curriculum. it's got to be filled with american greatness. students have to know. stonewall jackson fought for the wrong darnn side. of course they should also know about jackson's bill and what happened that night that is a story to read about and part from the moral problems here they need to read masterpieces of american literature and art. emily dickinson's adverse they need to know what happened to malcolm little in prison which is one ofso the great conversion stories and all of american history a

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i think educational policy, educational history, i mean, there's a lot of drama there.nce. why were these things happening? >> i guess the trick with this conversation right now is that it's an abstraction to most people. it revolves around the structure of critical race theory. it's inaccurate because people like you -- >> there's no critical race theory courses anywhere in k-12. they're barely in undergraduate and graduate level. and i think what i hear people say, this is an anti-critical race theory bill or we need to get critical race theory out of the schools, what they're saying is i don't want to talk about race and power. i don't want to talk about racial inequity that continues to happen. it's going to be uncomfortable for me and force me to look at my privilege, at my advantage. and so i -- i think that it's a nice kind of way to set up a boogie man. >> and if you want to learn more, make sure to check out the documentary "stolen education". i'm humble to be joined by the legendary civil rights leader, a voice for decades. and her foundation has been dealing

but when they realized i was not getting the best education, the best education is in public school.hat is why i kind of disagree with the lady. black and white, this and that, no. public education is wonderful and we should be entirely grateful for the teachers across this country. it is beyond belief. like the first responders, the teachers, i mean, imagine the kids that didn't get to go to prom during covid. if you don't go to school and enjoy middle school, junior high, high school, i mean, thinking back, you are over 21 years old. if you don't have those kind of blessing and the camaraderie, the unity, between students what did you have? but with parents, is the question you are asking about covid? i mean, this really wasn't a question besides masking, right? host: the role parents should play in general at this time when there has been, what we have seen, tension between parents and school boards. these viral videos. just asking what role parents should play when it comes to public education. you mentioned teachers. here is the view of one teacher from a recent op-ed. jennifer

so does it help to pay for family members education? did it pay for family members education?hat's a good question. so the original g.i. bill was for servicemembers that goldstar widows petition congress to be turned down initially especially with widows independent family members could use the g.i. bill benefits but that came later in the process and while they were on active duty to use the loan guarantee benefits that came later was seventies and eighties. >> so can you address mental health care in the immediate post-world war ii era but the v.a. medical care existed the entire time. and then and a medical capacity and then you have these holistic approaches and then just to have the very nature of the structure and those elements in that mental health and those who want that part of society to be in the house at other soldiers who understood what they were going through so after the first world war you have intense shell shock and that type of identified of an issue so that after the end of the second world war mental health is something to be very passionate about so you

and i say, you better start educating your own. you have to educate people. we don't educate people anymore. we indoctrinate. we don't teach the things they need, to use their hands. and people, we better stop teaching folks to use their hands and not just their brain. we need to do that. that's what we need with apprenticeships coming in, learning a scale, having a great life, because you can have a great life. and also have fun doing it. so i am here today because i want to thank you ms. curry, we have lost in the state community college in alabama, and it has one of your partnerships. how does this partnership really work? how do you get involved with a community college? >> thank you, senator. we have five partnerships in your state, actually. the coalition, the federation of advancing manufacturing, we put together small, medium and large businesses. we actually markets to businesses with the school system. and we look at the curriculum and look at changing the curriculum to meet needs. so we have over 400 companies, small, medium and large. they have 32

i'm a special education teacher. previously i taught in special day class which was an autism focused class. during that time, at one point i had a woman stop me on the street because she assumed which was a victim of domestic violence due to all of the bruises on my arms and being bitten by students and punched and hit. when i was a spc teacher i was sexually assaulted by a student and then their parents blamed me for the reaction. this is why i don't teach in spc anymore. i encourage board members and district administrators to talk to us members of the special education committee, because we have voices we'd like to highlight. there are teachers who are being threatened at school and who are having heinous things said about them by students. these students are in crisis, but we don't want to blame them. we need administrators and the board of ed to step up and make sure we're safe in our schools. it's hard to go to work and know you're going to be assaulted. thank you. >> hello, bob? >> yes, i'm bob armstrong, the

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as an example where we talking about education for democracy or education for a republic lags our country split and to describe the political system that we have an advocate for democracy to focus on the people and the egalitarian features our political structure and focus on order and structure and rule of law and concepts like that. we brought to the surface the positive aspect of those opinions and put them together in a constitutional democracy. throughout the writing of the roadmap we put our emphasis on constitutional democracy understanding of the structure in order will come together with the structure that does pull all the people and to the participation. so that was a compromise that we work it out in the early days. and then you can hear in the design challenges where we put it as a whole. we have got to fight each other and experimentation. the idea that we need to be able to narrate the history of her past that is honest about our feelings without falling into cynicism and talk about her accomplishments. that's the guardrail and we need to experiment to get to those narrativ

he is interviewed by npr education reporter. this is a weekly program with guests interviewing top non-fiction authors about their latest work. >> i'm so excited for this conversation, josh. >> same here. >> so you know you have written this book "the debt trap." it is a really impressive and comprehensive book. you mentioned that you did eight years of research on it. i just want to know like what sucked you in? >> well, it was nearly nine years because it was in 2012. i was an economics reporter at the time and i, as part of a, you know, a story i was doing on debt lines. the consumer agency put out a consumer financial protection agency put out a report saying student debt exceeded $1 trillion. so i wrote a standard story and the story got a ton of attention. a lot of readers clicked on it. they started to e-mail me, and from there i want today write more and more about it. about why student debt was rising. what was driving that. the more i wrote about it it was more like a snowball effect. i would have more and more people