husband of another educator. join me in giving a round of applause. mark. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you, adam. and rebecca, adam's mother, thank you for being here. i remember being five years old walking into my first day of kindergarten at john barry elementary school. i was so nervous. at that time i was just learning english. i felt like i didn't belong. turned out to be a horrible day because my mom had to pick me up early from the nurses office that day, i'm not sure if it was the feeling of being overwhelmed, being around bigger kids spoke english a lot better than me or maybe a feeling that the challenge it had was just too great but i recall being overcome with an overwhelming fear, my young mother walked from home a few blocks away to come get me from school and on the way home, she told me it will be okay. she told me that school would open doors for me to be able to be anything i wanted to be. anita, i know you are watching from you were right. i also remember a year end a half ago, it

another educator. please join me to give the secretary around of applause. [applause] >> thank you for being here. i remember being five years old walking into my first day of j kindergarten i was so nervous i felt like i did not belong. my mom had picked me up early at the feeling of but i recall being overcome. my young mother walked from home a few blocks away and on the way home she told me it would be okay and that school that opened doors for me to be anything i want to be. and now you're watching. you are right. i remember year and half ago it seems like forever ago when i was serving as theba commissioner of education in connecticut, sitting in my basement in my makeshift office. and then for in person learning knowing that excepted school closures would worsen opportunity gaps that sloppy reopening during those moments there were concerns the challenge was just too great but the first day of school also seemed impossible in making many people nervous about reopening. it remarkably we didid end

and husband of another educator. please join me in giving miguel cardona a round of applause. >> thank you, adam, rebecca, adam's mother. i remember being 5 years old, walking into my first day of kindergarten at john burial entry school. i was so nervous. at that time i was just learning english. i felt i didn't belong. turned out to be a horrible day. my mom had to pick me up early, not sure if it was the feeling of being overwhelmed, being around bigger kids who spoke and was a lot better than me or maybe a feeling that the challenge ahead was too great but i recall being overcome with an overwhelming fear. my young mother walked from home a few blocks away to come get me from school and on the way home she told me it would be okay. she told me school would open doors for me to be anything i want to be. you were right. i also remember a year and a half ago when i was serving as commissioner of education in connecticut. sitting in my basement in my makeshift office. at that time we were deciding how to reopen schoo

>> raising curious well educated children outside of the conventional classroom and it is written by carrie mcdonald, ms. mcdonnell before we get into the substance of the book tell us a little bit about yourself. >> it is great to be with you i am a senior education fellow at the foundation for economic education celebrating our 76 year anniversary this year as the oldest free-market think chain and a scholar at the cato institute of the freelance writer and as you mentioned the author of untold which came on 2019 the spring of 2019 that had a quite a bit of renewed interest over the past year plus given full shutdowns in the upsurge in interest in homeschooling and alternatives to school for tickly with school shutdown and delayed reopening plans. >> on the practical level have you been in the preschool level or the school-age? >> i am a homeschooling mom myself i have four children who have never been in school who range from 7 - 14 and high-end personal experience and reflection but i travel the country in writing the book and i visit other homeschooling families as well as learn

. -- education? [laughter] i feared such. >> the gentleman over here asked how we might move things in the better direction. the truth of the matter is, things will move in a better direction whether anybody likes it or not. there is a massive labor shortage in the united states that is growing, there is an even worse one in china. the name of the game is shifting in a big kind of way. so the value of higher education is shrinking dramatically because we need people to actually do stuff. we have always needed people who have college degrees to do the more advanced stuff but we don't need as higher ratio as we have been pumping out. i remember president obama once said he felt everybody should get a college education and i think anybody who was a professor at the time thoughts i do not know about that, that does not sound like a good goal to shoot for. so i think one of the things that will happen to higher education is it will suffer from this competition, from the outside. a fire education generally

the one thing they cap their mind on was education. they got education by any means.y kept their minds and their spirits in their hearts on education. the importance of education. it gets them where they needed to be. from this horrific beginning, we began to see the abolitionist and safe institutions established college and universities as well as schools create we later saw, with the introduction of the morel act, introduction into the landscape of public colleges and universities. for the express purpose of allowing black people to attend those schools because in america blacks were not permitted to go to school with white persons. 1860 language institutions said that under the morel act congress can step in and suggest it was unlawful to have a public institution for white students and not lack. if they're going to maintain them, they had to have institutions for black, and they did. but there was no mandate that they fund them, equally or equitably. they did not. that began a long and stony road litigation legislation, and administrative and executive orders. tha

host: an educator in florida. vanessa, hello. go ahead.ler: what are they doing within the schools to make sure that there is sufficient airflow within the classrooms? guest: that is a really important question. we said from the beginning that ventilation, proper ventilation is essential and actually, it is not new information, we already knew that we had crumbling schools, particularly in urban areas. we knew that our black, brown, and native students schools that they were going to had been built almost 100 years ago and never been updated. so over the last two years what we have strived to do is to learn more about what we could do to improve ventilations, and some school school districts han those steps, but, honestly, that is a band-aid. it is why we continue to fight for the passage of the infrastructure money in the build back better plan. that will allow us to address schools across this nation. the modernization of these schools we have been talking about for decades. now it is front and center. everybody can see they are not adeq

i mean, where was the art education for kids? where was the history education? and i tried really, really hard to fix the district, and i voluntarily gave up my seat at the end -- i was not term-limited -- because i just thought it wasn't working. >> you wrote in your memoir, which is entitled "the education of eva moskowitz"... so give me your elevator pitch for school choice. >> i just believe that, everything else being equal, putting power in the hands of parents is going to lead to better outcomes, because they know if their kid comes home and loves school, they know when their kids are unhappy, and they a better able, i think, to judge and make decisions. and the big bureaucratic system is not going to know our children the way we do as parents. >>o how is success academy and other charter schools in the city, how do they make education in new york more equitable? >> well, it's uitable because students -- and this is a fact, margaret, that many people don't know -- we don't admit, we don't enroll. it's a random lottery. so you don't have to live in a certa

the difference was men were educated and women weren't. education was a lifelong process.she wanted women to be educated to read and write and study subjects that were considered too taxing for the female mind but she considered it a lifelong process. he would publish reading lists and articles about science, serious stuff but for 50 years every issue of every magazine she edited talked about the importance of educating women and one reason, and essential reason was as you read earlier a mother is the first teacher of a child and she thought women needed to be educated in order to teach their children about everything particularly religion and virtue. this is also part of the reason she wanted a national thanksgiving day. she saw it as a way of bringing the country together which after the war. >> host: she was born after the revolutionary war and lived through the civil war so she lived through this time when we weren't the united states. we were very torn apart, in many ways today in our country, i wonder if our country now would be -- would benefit from reading this boo

the purpose of education is to e educate, not just take people's money and we see tweets that aptitude testing should remain as a way to assess a person's rights and weaknesses is important to educators and employers facing somebody effectively. this is the opinion piecece from political magazine, professor at georgetown university hospital, white colleges ditch the sat permanently and she writes that abolishing is 80s for college missions expand applicant pipeline, brings more racial, ethnic and economic diversity to campuses and raises aspirations of students residing on the top side of american inequality, institutions typically claim in the mission statement educating future citizens leaders to contribute to society, standardized tests are good predictors of such behavior. shet writes they reaffirm existing wealth structural advantages. schools should be encouraging rather than excluding and expelling students who are not wealthy and face barriers. that's politico.com. on our educators line, kevin is in south massachusetts. >> thank you for letting me on the program. while i think

they kept their mind their spirits and their hearts on education the importance of education when theirrom where they needed to be so we began to see the abolitionist and the faith institutions establishing colleges and universities with the introduction into this landscape the public colleges and universities to allow because they were 1862 land grab institutions and to recognize that the courts suggested it was unlawful to have public a institutions for white students and not blacks and then to maintain for black sand they did that there wasn't a mandate to find them equitably where that began a long and storied road of litigation legislation in the seattle and executive orders and with that bicameral support that historic investment of six.$5 billion in 2020 and those in the last month. and then to continue the long and stormy road to equitable funding and then the types of things those are not minorityri saving institutions. were race or ethnicity that's important because over the years as we develop that minorities with those diverse institutions to create a program for them. but s

and so they got education in any means but kept their mind and spirits and hearts on education so from this horrific beginning, we begin to see abolitionists and faith institutions establishing colleges and universities and the introduction into this landscape of public colleges and universities with the expressed purpose of allowing black people to attend the schools because in america, blacks were not permitted to gooo to school with white persons. if they were going to maintain them they would have to have institutions for black and dated but there was no mandate that they fund them equally or equitably and they did not, so that began the litigation legislation and executive orders that brought us to where we are today and where we are today is we are grateful to the bipartisan and bicameral support that got us more dollars than we found in the historic investment they begin to continue the road towards equitable funding they are not minority serving institutions they are historically born unlike any other groups of people in america but they are not minority serving institutions. t

basic education is a fundamental human right. but here in min cheek, a village in northern nigeria is conner state. many children are found on the farm or playing on the street instead of in the classroom. eunice mussa is the co founder of the give north education campaign, which advocates basic education for all. not just the privilege, few. for eunice, helping rural kids, access education is the key to progress. i have him, but very bad about any kish in northern, and yet i had been undoubted sussed. why? because i believe that it's only education that can bring my people out of darkness . without this education, there wouldn't be a real quote of any achievement. this education is debug, one of every de beloved nation. those who can afford it to send their children to private schools in the city. but that's not an option here in min chica. they are very few schools in the area and most are in a terrible state thinking well and then with the of of gunter. well, no one will want. layton in my school were gone. they are more toile

education. as a graduate of fitz university, i am proud to chair this first hearing to exclusively examine the state of these vital institutions since 2008. and, as chair of the higher education and workforce investment subcommittee, i'm committed to addressing the pressing needs of our nation's hbcus and their students, including infrastructure, modernization, improved research capabilities, financial assistance to reduce economic barriers and eliminate food and housing insecurity, and investments to account for decades, decades, decades of gross underfunding. hbcus have been at the very heart of addressing our nation's longstanding education and racial equity failures. for nearly 200 years, they have provided ladders of economic and social mobility and safe havens for generations of black students. in fact, hbcus were established for the specific purpose of educating black students because other institutions would not and refused to. the majority were founded in the wake of the emancipation pr

hbcus are found in 185 years ago to educate, hbcus remain at the front line of educating students who need access through transformative power of highway protection. and adequate facilities. we are active in your system. we need funds in separate hearings, funds such as deferred maintenance, infrastructure, technology, academic programs and research. finally, we are often asked the question about hbcus, that is the wrong question. the question is how do these towns and universities produced so much and how can the model be used for other institutions to advance our great country. that is the question. at hbcus we see black excellence at its best, support for students they serve and close the gap by making much-needed investments in hbcus that address historically discrimination and funding and put hbcus on equal footing with majority of institutions. never too late to do what is right. >> if i didn't also note that doctor adams, the other hand lady is a member of our for alpha sorority also and proud to have her national president here with us today. under committee full 98, we now qu

the purpose of education is to educate, not just take money.nd aptitude testing should remain as a way to assess a person's strength and weaknesses read it is important to educators and employers in placing someone effectively. this is an opinion piece from politico magazine. the headline, why colleges should ditch the sat permanently. she writes that abolishing sats for college admissions expand the applicant pipeline, brings more racial, ethnic and economic diversity to campuses, and raises the aspirations of students residing on the tough side of american inequality. institutions typically claim in their mission statements to be educating future citizens leaders who contribute to society, but standardized tests are not good indicators of such behavior. she writes that they reaffirm existing wealth and structural advantages. schools should be encouraging rather than excluding students who face barriers. on our educators line, kevin is in massachusetts. go ahead. caller: thank you very much for letting me on the program. first of all, i think

campaign which advocates basic education for all. not just the privilege, few for eunice, helping rural kids, access education is the key to progress i have here, but very bad about education in northern nat. geo had been undoubted, sussed. why? because i believed that it's only education that can bring quite people out of darkness. without this education, there wouldn't be a real quote of any achievement. this education is to bug one of every the beloved nation. those who can afford it to send their children to private schools in the city. but that's not an option here in min chica. they are very few schools in the area and most are in a terrible state thinking well and then one campus gunther, one out one with the want. layton in my school were gone. they are more toilets, desk or even chair sladen, the kingery the order. the school is also very far from my home city. the 1111. and with our while, by along, i think our teachers are dedicated, but it's very hard to land with nothing to help us alone more than i will doubt that the m

. -- education? [laughter] i feared such. >> the gentleman over here asked how we might move things in the better direction. the truth of the matter is, things will move in a better direction whether anybody likes it or not. there is a massive labor shortage in the united states that is growing, there is an even worse one in china. the name of the game is shifting in a big kind of way. so the value of higher education is shrinking dramatically because we need people to actually do stuff. we have always needed people who have college degrees to do the more advanced stuff but we don't need as higher ratio as we have been pumping out. i remember president obama once said he felt everybody should get a college education and i think anybody who was a professor at the time thoughts i do not know about that, that does not sound like a good goal to shoot for. so i think one of the things that will happen to higher education is it will suffer from this competition, from the outside. a fire education generally

they frequently deride our education. at times in the past, they might have had been just a little bit right. but mississippi schools have made a major turnaround. in fact, a turnaround of historic proportions. when you look at the data, it looks like a miracle. but it is not a miracle. it is the product of dedication of teachers and the result of the intelligence of our people and conservative common sense reforms enacted by many of us here today. and most importantly, it is an achievement that was earned by mississippi students. mississippi students with disabilities have seen a graduation rate that has doubled over the last eight years. overall, our graduation rate is now at an all-time high of 87.7%. that, by the way, is better than the national average. [applause] and while the graduation rate is at an all-time high, the dropout rate is at an all-time low of only 8 .02%. -- 8 punto 8 percent. -- the number of students who create -- complete technical courses has shot up by 36% since 2015. mississippi's students are l

education and our children. as we navigate through the difficult times from covid-19 and the education recovery and social and emotional support for our students, fiscal stability and the hiring of our superintendent are just to name a few priorities for this year. it's also an important time to have asian american and pacific islander women leadership at the school district an i am also a parent. i'd be humbled to have the support of our colleagues and your confidence in me. i think i've been able to continue to demonstrate my ability to be committed to engaging with our communities, with our students and ability to build confidence with our communities as well as working with our staff. i look forward to the continued opportunity to again work with our students, families and educators and the broader san francisco unified community. thank you. >> seeing no other comments. >> if i can comment, president lopez. >> of course. >> happy new year, first and foremost. tonight i came into this meeting with the intenti

be well educated as her sons and then by her brother horatio, went up to dartmouth and sarah cannot go with him because they didn't accept women until the 1970s but horatio would come home and teacher everything that he had learned and then when hill got married she and her husband every evening they would sit together the sitting room table after dinner and for a few hours they would study not just literature but also science and french in botany. >> and eulogy in subjects that ite not usually for women subjects. >> right pretty. >> i love what you said about her mother she was profoundly influence by her mother which was her for schoolteacher, my mom's in the audience, she's also schoolteacher so i felt when she said that the new influence of that is a schoolmaster seem like that really center on this trajectory of just for her mother's influence and also her husband it but maybe you could speak to some of these influences in life that really had this impacted. >> i think you're right, her family influence was enormous and another influence was her father who was revolutionary war

education and infrastructure. more than 130 years ago the founders our state in writing the idaho constitution, recognized the stability and endurance of our republican form of government depends mainly on, quote, the intelligence of the people. a person's education starts at home. parents are in the driver's seat, as they should be and always will be in idaho. children today will become the workforce of tomorrow. they will be the engineers, loggers, doctors, farmers, construction workers, entrepreneurs, teachers, truckers, you name it. we want our idaho students to receive a strong foundation of learning now so they can stay here and make our state strong for future generations. and idaho schools partner with parents in the education of their children. that's why i propose making the largest investment in idaho education ever. my budget adds $1.1 billion over the next five years to improve idaho education. [applause] and it all starts with literacy. today, i propose adding $47 million in ongoing funding to litera

department of education by january 31. 12 days from now. and that, again, is the time-sensitive urgency this evening. military and tribal districts across the country have reported that covid restrictions have slowed down the paperwork process and this hindrance will result in an undercount and thus an art physically low federal reimbursement. the impact aid flexibility act will solve this problem in an elegant way by simply carrying over last year's student census, thus ensuring that no impact aid district will be harmed financially. this is a one-year fix. the same as the fix that last congress passed in december, 2020. the impact aid coronavirus leaf act, which i sponsored with my republican colleague, dusty johnson of south dakota. mr. speaker, this vote is being watched nervously by school officials and military staff all across the nation. such as gratten school superintendent susan austin, leger superintendent and the navy school liaison officer at gratten subbase new london who have worked with the national association of federally

board of education office. one, requesting the superintendent to relocate the student advisory council under the board of education office and 2, requesting that the student delegates have unput in hiring it any staff member who are assigned to support the student advisory council panel. this was moved and seconded on october 26th. it's now before the board for action. can i call on student delegates commissioner to alexander to share comments. >> as twos says, this resolution mostly to move the student advisory council under the board of education office and give members say in the hiring of any staff that are assigned to support the student advisory council. we hope to continuing being a body under the board of education office. >> i like promoting student voice through this resolution and bridging the gap between students and the board is really important. we want to elevate student voice this year for a term. >> it's an honor sponsoring this on behalf of our students. they wrote it. it actually started last

because i believe that it's only education that can bring my people out of darkness without this education. there wouldn't be a real quote of any achievement. this education is debug, one of every, the beloved nation. those who can afford it, sent their children to private schools in the city. but that's not an option here in min chica. they are very few schools in the area and most are in a terrible state picking model under that. then we can have gunter well, no one would want layton in my school mach on. they are more toilets, desk or even chairs lou than the king. the order, the school is also very far from my home ski. the one that went on and what burnable i think teachers are dedicated, but it's very hard to land with nothing to help us alone was. and i will got that the mobile the mobile along with those and i don't good them. but the lack of infrastructure isn't the only problem. not everyone here recognizes the value of formal education, skepticism of western style, learning the belief that girls don't need to be educated, and regional instability have created a difficult environ

i did julie right of education. we want to make sure this help us in with the carno state government recently made basic education free and compulsory and maybe change is on the horizon. eunice, i wish you will. sometimes young people face, he would challenges in dallas as school is often the 1st thing that's office in south africa. at least 40 percent of pupils drop out of school before. great 12, there it is, especially high among girls are reporter, was as he went, committee visited were rockwell sooner natal to look at what he takes for girls to finish high school. the consequence for youth dropping out of school prematurely or severe god. meaning i should have continued with my studies instead of falling pregnant, my meets her most young people that do not finish high school will be trapped into this vicious cycle of unemployment as well as poverty. is school by late, it's very important will have to finish school in order to fulfill hagin to me was the 77 percent is in rural, wasn't not down in south africa to

their passion around promoting >> education is so inspiring. as is the passion referred from a wide range of national security professionals that we have had the privilege to talk with over the course of it initiative. to the >> education we attach to others national security issues. i can think of no one better suited to talk about the national that is the capacity in which i first met you. i was a young attorney and the cia. i've read tickly forg a meeting i knew came out and you graciously brought me into your office and very impressionable for young attorney. he joined the cia in 1966 officer. it was the only career officer in cia's history right from an entry-level employee to become the director. another title many think is secretary gates. secretary gates is the only secretary of defense in u.s. history to be asked to remainn in office by newly elected president president bush and obama. in fact he served eight presidents across both parties and is less than office of course president barack obama awarded him presidential the highest civ

host: that is one thing about civics education.here are some places where our government has ruled -- rules that are clear-cut. but there are other places where it depends on who you talk to. how do you teach areas where there may be disagreements on what the actual rules are? guest: we take a look at how things were actually written, and we take a look at the various laws that have abided since. there are supreme court cases as well. all we can do is present the various interpretations over the course of history. what we do try to avoid is engaging with explicit misinterpretations outside of the legislation, outside of judicial proceedings. we can only really engage with those moments in which that right, for example, it is actually been interpreted. what you are getting at is that there is something going on in the united states where, for example, i would say, we talk about the importance of freedom in the united states. but we do not actually talk about the fact that all the constitution provides is that congress shall pass no

education for older dulls or people liking with disabilities. and how do you recommend we overcome them? >> thank you for that question because it's a very important issue. >> the barriers that older adults face when it -- and people with disabilities when it comes to obtaining financial education is that it isn't offered or made available in a place they have access to. the reality is only a one in five americans have availed of financial education cups. so making financial education more available to individuals is one of the important considerations if we want to expand financial literacy and expanding financial sit mikkolacy -- rit rahcy buzz it is better with lasting behave quors, people are more likely to save, les likely to engage in predatory borrowing baifors, more likely to have a will and start planning for psychological plan. senator gillibrand: thank you to the witnesses. senator casey: we have a number of senators juggling multiple hearings. senator warnock has joined us. we had some senators join us earlier who may have had to lea

[applause] and then the prioritizing education, healthcare and public safety.ric levels of resources for students and educators keeping politics out of the classroom to ensure parents have the final say in their kids education and reduces the cost of health insurance for georgia families and recruits 1300 those committees were they are needed the most and gives new mothers expanded access to care and incentivizes more georgians to enter a career in law enforcement and then dismantle human trafficking and games and strengthen constitutional rights to protect themselves and their families it turns promises made into promises kept. the plan for a safer and stronger georgia per it's hard-working georgians first and insurers the state will continue to be the best place to live and work and raise a family for generations to come. over the last three years we have shown what this team can accomplish even with enormous obstacles that stand in our way by working together throughout that legislative session i know it can be done. thank you may god continue to bless you a

three things are very important to her educators. we want to help kids especially the people of all ages find themselves in their store either as responders or perhaps through the k-9's who came to be part of the search-and-rescue and the therapy dogs and the ethnic diversity. people for more than 90 nations it's to say that people from other countries were killed so we want people to understand it wasn't just americans i wasn't just new yorkers and visitors from all over are part of this story. another thing we try to and i hate to use the word combat but i can't think of a better one is we want to provide accurate information so children especially can learn to distinguish between conspiracy theories grounded in thin air and actual reality facts from the people who were there or who studied it and what happened and it's very important for us to not. islamaphobia or to foment hatred on any level so those are three big areas that her educators are trying to touch on that are important. in the museum it's the job of the museum is to p

i'm interested in the integrity of the civic education.oo many schools and other states want to teach the lives and america is inherently racist to teach students by virtue of the color of your skin you inherently are a victim or oppressor. they teach this for a purpose. is designed to allow a small group of ideologues polls as false he rose it is arrogance aand ambition masquerading. a victim by birth only fared - - their generosity can save you only your silent cooperation with the radical worldview can there is no country on this earth without sin in the past that is because there is no person on this earth without sin. sin is inherent in the human condition and justice is still to present today. we must seek that true then we must learn from our history who we can probably teach america is the first nation in history to be born of ideals, not just blood and sober not a nation created by a tribe at a melting pot of people committed to common purpose. [applause] and we were to live up to those ideals every single day. and yes sometimes w

all current educators, we want to hear from you. if you don't fit into either one of those categories, if you are not a parent of a schoolchild or a current educator, you can still chime in. everyone else. keep in mind, you can text us. we are always reading on social media on twitter at c-spanwj and at facebook.com/c-span. let me ask a question and then you can say what you had to say earlier as well. when we talk about school choice, one thing that we always hear is about parents who cannot move their children for some reason, who are left with their children in the school that they were zoned for, whether that school is good or bad. what do we do about parents who cannot move their children with the school choice debate? jon: yeah, excellent question. . we empower those parents, we empower parents who do not have the financial resources to move or have the, you know, the resources that they need to get out of the school district. we empower those parents. parents who are in schools and don't necessarily want to be in these public

it is about education, it is about poverty. so we also do quite a lot of cash transfer to make sure that that families can get my and that they can buy food and buy clothing and everything that they need to to, to survive. and then they might not feel that they are forced to marry off that girl. but then it's also about legislation. it's about the mindset shift and norms and values. so we're trying to address all these at the same time. now, do united nations has reported about sexual violence against young girls not just by arm groups, but also by people that are meant to protect those young girls. whether it be un peacekeepers, i've been in central african republic where we've met 12 year old girls that could recognize the tattoo of the regiment of the french soldier that had abused her. we spoke to the lawyers that were defending these young girls. all of the cases that they put forward to judges into the tribunal were dismissed. even the ones by paris prosecutors, the lawyer told me, imagine if there was african soldiers in