but education america went work out doubt from the best education to almost god awesome now. we still have the best education in america and quality out of the graduate school is great but national level education is required a lot of the work we do out of the lab is in the energy spates. at the scale you want to effect the economy one of the revolutions is going to be the transfer from a economist economy. there's a lot of manufacturing in that and we don't have policies on robotics to make those things. so things are much bigger in the maker movement in terms of impacting the economic we're not having consistent policy >> the carbon basis life form i'm concerned. >> you've been replaced by a robot. >> i have a couple of things one is at a simplistic level. there's this rhetoric we need to reforearm the defeat it's a global economy and when you look at the parts and supplies and protection policies that seems like a good idea until you realize you're using parts from all over the accruing world. and the granted program be reapplied into a national program that comploiz the i

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we have a stronger, more affluent, better educated black america, and yet we are at a point -- and this is where i say cosby was the bell ringer, and he is to be absolutely be heralded by our community for what he did that day -- he is saying you have a strong community, and yet what about our brothers who are not coming with us at a moment when american society is suffering a greater and greater class division? >> no question. >> why is it that we have still 25% of our brothers and sisters living in poverty, and how can we speak to them, because the devil at the tour -- >> right. >> -- the wolf that is threatening us at this moment now becomes a matter of an internal threat. the internal threat is 50% dropout rate, even higher for our black and hispanic boys. the threat is -- this is unbelievable d70% of our children born out of wedlock? which means not just, it's not a matter of, oh, you know, morality. >> right. >> this means the mother is at threat putting herself, limiting her ability to move forward with her aspirations, and the child, she's not in position to give attention, to r

. >>> this week marks our annual summit looking at the state of education in america. we call it education nation. in its fourth year now. we kicked it off over the weekend with a teacher town hall and continued all day today and will tomorrow, talking about what it takes to help students succeed. tonight we've got a look at a huge change that's coming to america's schools. it's called the common core curriculum. it is not without controversy. our chief education correspondent rehema ellis has our report. >> reporter: across the country opposition is mounting against a new set of higher academic standards known as the common core which many teachers say are being imposed too quickly. here in chelsea, just outside of boston, they are embracing it. >> we are learning about volume and mass. >> reporter: massachusetts toughened its own standards 20 years ago and criticism was fierce. >> we stayed the course. we tweaked the path every so often but we kept the goal of high academic standards in closing the achievement gap. >> reporter: today massachusetts test scores rank it

i mean if you really care about improving education in america, we would have smaller class sizes.icularly for kids who are poor. (applause) >> jon: . >> we would make sure thief ree school in america had every day a nurse or health clinic that kid kos go to when they were sick. we would make sure that every school had the arts, that every school had physical education, that children who go to-- . >> jon: these areas, so the families in these areas, because this gets into another issue that you bring up in the book. the families in this area are rightly concerned, though, with the performance of some of the public schools in their areas. these schools can be dilapidated, poorly performing and these types of things. there is this movement and the charter movement that says what's wrong with giving choice to those kids in those areas, because the schools around them are not serving their needs, what is wrong with that in your mind? >> well, what's wrong with it is that it is part of, i believe, a purposeful effort to create a consumer mentality around education. public education is a

education nation summit begins in new york. it's a chance to put a spotlight on some of the biggest issues facing america's education system. nbc's education correspondent rehema ellis has a look at what the meeting hopes to accomplish. >> reporter: new york city public library is being transformed to host the nbc news education nation summit. inside these walls, teachers, students and administrators will meet with national leader s in education, business, politics and entertainment, all to focus on the state of education in america. this year's theme? what it takes will focus on innovative ways to get american students successfully through school, go on to excel in college and beyond. from ideas such as extended school days. >> i've seen students go from third, fourth grade reading level who are juniors in high school and are at grade level now. >> reporter: to new technology in classrooms. >> go ahead and highlight that first paragraph in your i-book. >> to better training for teacher. >> they feel successful and see the success as well. >> reporter: education nation summit will open the dialogue about what's working in a

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we have an education crisis in america. >> why don't we have the skill setsrequired? it is an education problem but should it be on the private sector or government? >> government is a monopoly. you're better off having lots of competition in education. the german corporation see it as their responsibility to do job training and education for young ople in their community. maybe corporations need to help here as well. we have this whole revolution with online education. over the next few years we'll have lots of choices how to educate people. >> we're still having a hard time moving the needle on job creation. is it washington getting in the way? is it the focus on large companies versus smaller companies? >> we need to have moreyú entrepreneurs. let's bring them in from other countries. let's let the ones here stay here and don't worry about visa issues. >> all of this innovation happening in technology. it's sort of the horse has left the stable. i've got to get your take on this nsa scanl. >> it's doing what the law says. seems the nsa is watching that amount of do

the president cast the glitches as a sign of success, education of america's hunger to sign up for health care. the republicans did not agree. >> there were five times more users in the marketplace this morning than have ever been on medicare.gov at one time. that gives you a sense of how important this is to millions of americans around the country. that's a good thing. >> a glitch means it's not working. i don't think those glitches get any better over the next few weeks. >> let's be clear. this fight isn't about websites. the republicans believe they're staging an intervention that obama care will kill jobs and raise costs for everyone. that's why they are fighting so hard to stop it and why the debt ceiling could be the next bargaining chip in this fight. the gop also insists fervently the president's assurances that you can keep your doctor, keep your same health plan will eventually be proven false. what does the affordable care about mean for people who already have insurance? for the answer to that crucial question we turn to cnn's chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta. sanjay?

i'm talking about some of the most highly educated workers in america.any part time university professor,ed , adjuncts as theye known. when part time professor get a bad deal its often students who pay the prize. >> reporter: when darren brown became an university professor he never imagined his career would end on such a low. >> i envisioned i would climb this ladder, and as you can see i did not climb the ladder. i'm in my parents' basement. >> reporter: the first person in his family to go to college, he taught college courses to rave student reviews, the problem was as part time adjunct professor, he could not afford to live in the bay area and pay off his student loan test. >> after taxes i bring home paychecks of $1,100 a month. >> reporter: he had hoped for a full-time te tenured professors. the full time positions are increasingly scarce. 40 years ago part time professor comprised 30% of higher education faculty. by 2009 their ranks swelled to over 50%. a two-year public community colleges nearly 70% faculty are part timers. in ohio, adjunct engl

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we have an education crisis in america. >> why don't we have the skill sets required. should the honus be on the private sector or government? >> government is largely an education monopoly, in germany, the german corporations see it as their responsibility for training for young people in their communities. maybe corporations need to help as well. we have a whole revolution going on with online education, we'll have lots of choices how to educate people. >> we're having a hard time moving the needle on job creation, is it washington getting in the way, focus on large companies versus smaller companies? >> ultimately what we need is to have more entrepreneurs. let's bring more in from other countries and let the other ones stay and not kick them out because of visa issues. the consumer mindset will create demand for these jobs and companies and they will gro. >> all of this innovation, the horse has left the stable in terms of privacy, we know that. i've got to get your take on the nsa scandal. >> the nsa claims it's doing what the law says. it seems they are watching t

socio economically and otherwise we have a twenty two percent childhood poverty rate and in america we educate everybody and like many of these other countries like china is looked up to as these great educational supercar but guess what they don't try to educate everybody we do it in the richest schools in america you'll see that they do just what they do in finland right if you go under which rules you're going to see project based learning you're going to see small class sizes you're going to see creativity and standardized tests aren't determining whether they get funding or not they have up to date books technology is part of their curriculum where i worry most is there which kids will never have to deal with automation api the rich kids will never get their parents will never ever allow them to be taught by in ky or via computer they'll want real human teacher they don't want to knock out they're going to want a human being and so my worry is is in these poor schools where the kids don't have the resources will say ok well we can't afford real teachers because you know their pensions are

education fits everybody. some of the best schools that are modest and small and they have placement rates of 80 to 85%. >> america'sord of literally and the key educational litmus tests, if you like, is shocking. they are falling so far behind countries like china and india and others, it's getting embarrassing. what is going on with the education system in america that is leading to the statistics? >> i don't think things like the skills gap or currency devaluation or manufacturing outsourcing, i don't think these things are problems in and of themselves. they are symptoms of something bigger and i think that the bigger thing is our own disconnect with the very fundamental notion of valuable work, meaningful work. i don't think we are up to speed. we are telling kids, work hard and work smart not hard. that's what we are telling. i had a poster in my guidance counsellor's office that said work smart, not hard. there it is. amazing. >>> we breeding a softer generation? i have boys in their teen years and a young daughter. 20, 16, and 13. they are working hard at school and college and university and so on. i'm worr

education is the great equalizer in closing the income divide in america but that means every child mustgreat school and great teachers and today, in america, that does not exist. failing schools results in the reserves desk in the reverse. children to drop out are more likely to possess a lifetime dependency on government, likelier to be unable to provide for their families and likelier to end up in our correctional system. education reform is the civil rights issue of our time but dramatically raising the quality of education in america is also essential for sustaining our competitive posture in the world and securing our long-term economic futures. thankfully, there are proven reforms that are being implemented in growing pockets throughout our nation that we know work. the key to improving education is widespread embrace of higher expectations and higher standards including the common core, more accountability, much more parental choice of every type, ending social promotion, the insidious policy that passes kids along without them learning the basics things. to improve the quality o

join exxonmobil in advancing math and science education at exxonmobil dot com slash let's solve this. >>> for america's teachers, it is a time of sweeping change with new standards across 45 states. and new standardized testing on the way. there have been protests and cut backs -- >> our students are not seats or dollars. they're our future. >> and of course politics. >> i am strongly, strongly against common core. >> but through it all, it's america's teachers who are called on to get the job done. today in our fourth annual teacher town hall, teachers get their chance to speak up on what it takes to create success for our kids and how all of us can help. ♪ >>> this is education nation, the teacher town hall, live from the new york public library in new york. here is brian williams. [ applause ] >> look at this beautiful place. good day and welcome. welcome to new york city. the government may be shutdown, but here we are open for business and ready for an active two-hour conversation. we couldn't be happier, couldn't be prouder, more pleased to be hosting this again. welcome, teachers, here in the ro

now we're in the 21st century with the stronger more affluent, better educated, black america met yet we're at of point that caused you was developing your to be saluted and heralded by our committee to say you have a strong community me yet what about the brothers' who are not coming with us when there is a greater class division why is it we have 25 percent of brothers and sisters living in poverty and how can we speak to them? the devil at the door now is the internal threat 50 percent dropout rate or even higher. 70% or not of wedlock? it is not morality this means the mother limits herself to move forward now the position she cannot support or give attention in the way the child needs to become awfully strong educated adults >> as a young child i tasted discrimination and i and i did not like get. my a mother or father or grandparents why segregation? why racial discrimination? they say that is the way it is. don't get in trouble. don't get in the way. in 1955 and the tenth grade 50 years old, i heard rosa parks i heard the voice of martin luther king, jr. on the radio and the wo

if in fact you wanted to change education in america, what will you do so we will not filed ourselveswhere we were in that ocdi report. >> there are many things but probably the single most important is to make teaching a valued and honored profession in a way we have not. and at the same time hold teachers accountable for the way they perform, reward merit, take away tenure and expect high performance and then reward it. if we did that with respect to our pool of teachers, over time we would see significant changes in educational performances. >> rose: of course you know there are people across the aisle from me who would say the key to growth in america is unleashing the power of the free market and letting the corporations do things and not tax them too much and they will release their economic engine. >> charlie, there's truth in that. as i said at the beginning we need more public investments and we need more private investments. look the problem in almost all of these debates is that the center is not holding. there are people who think that government can do it all. that govern

in the congress part of that come if we can educate children -- right now, in america, the world doesn't exist. if we bring news into classrooms -- and i think it was every four cnn had a wonderful newsroom and maybe there still some attempt -- but the only way you can engage people and they are older is if they have caught the bug when they are younger. the canadians do that with better than probably we do. it is engagement in the sense that you have the potential to do something. it's teaching people that they can be the creative activist in their own environment and in the world, the larger world. tavis: thank you for sharing your story. i appreciated. the book is called "in the heart of life, a restless soul commissioners for meaning and a bond that nothing could break." eldon. memoir by kathy at the heart of the stories the death of her 22-year-old son dan, a third journalist in mogadishu. a photojournalist in mogadishu. that is our show for tonight. as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley on pbs.org. tavis: join me next time for a conv

. ♪ ♪ >> the good news about education is that america's graduation rate is on the rise for the 20092010r, graduation rights each 72.8% the highest since 1974, the bad news, our nation's back, native american, and latino students are still graduating at far lower levels than their white and asian counterparts. and washington, d.c. public schools have some of the lowest graduation rates in the country. this means that our nongraduating students are more likely to become unemployed or end up in jail. fortunately, there are dedicated school staff, teachers, parents, community members and students, working hard to curb the drop out statistics, and making sure that our young people are graduating high school, career and college ready. and we do welcome all of you to the program. thank you so much for being here for this very important topic about closing the achievement gap. and i am so very excited, because all of you are here because you are doing something exciting and interesting, and innovative in the classroom, kareem, let me start with you. math-alicious, sounds delicious. what is it?

the real city that because of the great passion for self-education in america. the great belief that if there aren't schools we should be reading and get not a society and talking to each other and ourselves learn so we don't become barbarian. when lincoln laned in salem. he landed in an intellectual town. a town that was theological liberal with many smart people who talked see the tholing all the time. it's american self-taught self-education theme that is so huge. jefferson teaches himself ten languages. one of them arabic inspect is just the theme we have in the history. in to his thinking. many the american revolution was conducted in a high religious surge in the american colony after the war, the churches had been idescrod. pastors were skilled. bibles burned. as a result of that and the enlightenment influence of philosophically you have a turning against christianity. thomas paine war hero for writing, as he did, and citing, you know, with common sense much of the war. he writes a book "age of reason." lincoln loves it. there's a french scholar who writ

america's universities." m.i.t. american history professor craig wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. that "the american campus to it as a silent monument to slavery." welcome to democracy now! talk about america's most elite universities. what relation do they have to slavery? >> i think there are multiple relationships. the first and probably most provocative is the relationship to the slave trade itself. in the middle of the 18th century, from 1746 to 1759,

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america's universities." m.i.t. american history professor craig wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up togetherthat "the american campus to it as a silent monument to slavery." welcome to democracy now! talk about america's most elite universities. what relation do they have to slavery? >> i think there are multiple relationships. the first and probably most provocative is the relationship to the slave trade itself. in the middle of the 18th century, from 1746 to 1759, fewer than 25 years, the number of colleges in the british colonies triples from 3 to 9. it triples and that 25- yearperiod which coincides with the height of the slave trade. it is precisely the rise in the atlantic economy based on the african slave trade that allows for this fantastic articulation of new growth of the institutional infrastructure. >> let's talk specifically about particular universities. you do look at some universities in the south, but also in the deep north. harvard. >> it is a very northern story. when you think about the colonial world, until the american revolution, there's actually only one college in t

america. take a new look at news. >> a revolution in online education is happening quickly as massive online open courses known as mooks have become increasingly popular on campus and off. the wisdom of sitting in a lecture hall as opposed to attending a virtual classroom is losing. some are strong proponents of a free online education system available to everyone. it's a revolutionary idea that not everyone is on board now. joining me now to discuss this is edward rock, professor of business law at the university of pennsylvania and director of open course initiatives. he's in our studio in philadelphia. and francisco dow, he joins us from los angeles. thank you for being with us. edward, i want to start with you, university of pennsylvania is partnering with one of these top mooks, and it's called cosera. and they put all these courses online. here's the site. we're showing it right now, and there are 4 million people signed up on it since it started 2012. these are free classes all over the world, but you don't really get college credit. how does it work and how does it make sense? >> so, it m

education fits everybody. some of the best schools in fact country you've never heard of. they are modest, small and have placement rates, 0 and 85%. >> america's literacy and tests are shocking. they are falling so far behind countries like china, like india and others it's almost getting embarrassing. what is going on with the education system in america that is leading to these kind of statistics? >> i don't think things like the skills gap or infrastructure or manufacturing outsourcing. i don't think they are problems in and of themselves but symptoms of something bigger, and i think the bigger thing is our own disconnect with a very fundamental notion of valuable work, meaningful work. i don't think we are up to speed with a new message for a new problem. we're still telling kids, fundamentally, look, work hard, work smart not hard. that's what we're telling them. i had a poster in my guidance counselor's office that literally said work smart, not hard -- there it is there. amazing. >> are we breeding a softer generation? i got three kids, boys in their any age years, a young daughter, kids of 20, 16, 15. they are working hard at school an

the reality is that because of the great passion for self-education in america, the great belief that if there aren't schools, we should all be reading and talking to each over and helping ourselves learn so we don't become barbarians in the wilderness. the fact is that when lincoln landed in salem, he landed in a very intellectual town, a town, by the way, that was decidedly theologically liberal with many smart people who talked theology all the time. well, this is out in the boondocks. again, this is american self-taught, self-education theme that's so huge. jefferson teaches himself, what, ten languages, one of them arabic? this is just the theme we have in the history. william herndon said in 1834 he was surrounded by a class of people exceedingly liberal in matters of religion, ruins and pains age of reason passed from hand to hand and furnished food for the evening's discussion in the tavern and the village store. lincoln read both these books and thus assimilated hem into his thinking. -- them into his thinking. although the american revolution was conducted in kind of a high