. >>> tracking states education data. users can choose which states to compare, test scores and teacher salaries. it shows california teachers are among the highest paid. but test scores are among the lowest. >>> not a clean get away for laptop thieves. a car was burglarized and a laptop was taken. the victim had software on the computer that tracks the computer and takes pictures of people using the computer. at first these people were spotted with the stolen mac and then misman was pictured -- this man was pictured using the computer. if you spot any of these people call police. >>> a lot of sunshine across the bay area today. low clouds and fog will regroup tonight and tomorrow morning. they will be a factor for the friday morning commute. right now partly cloudy skies. tracking rain showers yesterday in southern california but all the showers ended and we have this, patchy fogs, around mop ray bay and this will expand -- monterey bay and this will expand. right now mostly clear skies. coliseum and we have a fair sky a

they looked at the department of education data from 1996 to 2012 and found the amount of grants given to the lowest income families has steadily declined. and similar aid to well think students has increased. why cut access to students that could bring greater diversity to campus. as the former vice chancellor for enrollment at indiana university. >> two important trends that have happened that are influencing a lot of what is happening at public flagship institutionings right now. one is the invention of rankings. >> to raise the rankings they choose high achievers and wealthier students like out of staters that generate more revenue. as a result the low income under performing students get squeezed out. >> everyone wants to be number one in the united states. that explains it. the other thing that explains public universities, there is really no word to use other than dramatic. there has been a dramatic decline in the amount of money that states provide for public institutions. and a lot of public university now they use phrases like "state aided" rather than, a "state institution."

department of education data is that test scores in this country have never been higher than they arehildren, hispanic children, and asian children. high school graduation rates are at their highest point in history. the dropout rate is at its lowest point in history, and yet i am fiercely critical of the status quo because the status quo is built on this notion which has been built up over 30 years that we're failing, our schools are faying and therefore we should just do anything that it takes to demolish public education because it's a disaster. so i argue it is not a disaster. the status quo that we have which is test and test, privatize and privatize, throw money at consultants instead of schools, when we e talk about the rising cost of education so, much of the money is going to people who are telling teachers how to teach, telling principals how to lead, telling schools how to turn themselves around, huge amounts of money are being siphoned off that are not going into schools. and so there are practical things we should do because there is a crisis, a real crisis, poverty, and

organization for economic cooperation and development organized the computer survey to collect data for school education and job training programs. 157,000 people age 16 to 65 took part. they were from 24 countries and regions. some 5,000 japanese were selected at random. they submitted responses online. participants were assessed for skills in reading, work with numbers and problem solves. japan surpassed the average score by 20 points. >> the results show japan has emphasized the basics and compulsory education since the prewar years. >> japan was above average in using technology for problem solving but finished in 10th place. japanese respondents did well overall regardless of background or type of job. >>> help ra say or hanson's disease has plagued humans throughout history forcing those to live in confinement. some people try to make sure this painful legacy is not forgotten. nhk world has more. >> there are states for people with the disease in japan. this is one of them. 264 patients still live there. hanson's disease is not highly contagious and treatment has been available for decades. japane

organization for economic cooperation and development organized the computer survey to collect data for school education and job training programs. about 157,000 people aged 16 to 65 took part. they were from 24 countries and regions. some 5,000 japanese were selected at random. they submitted their responses online. participates were assessed for their skills in reading, working with numbers and problem solving. japan placed first in literacy and numsy, surpassing the average school by about 20 points. >> translator: the results show japan have emphasized the basics in compulsory education since the prewar years. >> japan was also above average in using technology for problem solving, but finished in tenth place. japanese respondents did well overall regardless of educational background or type of job. >>> now, we have a story that will inspire treasure hunters around the world. a young boy in western japan is getting credit for discovering an artifact that dates back more than 1,500 years. he found a blue/green object four years ago in a park near his home. the park contains a third century burial mou

major urban environmental issues but there are all kinds of things that could be done with data provided to of education department of a chieftain's but one to have somebody there coordinating and connecting the dots. >> i have heard the name rush limbaugh mentioned a few times today. but yet so one station that we have been the york to discuss issues like these come with the progressive community has come into use the rescues that almost went under maybe we will survive for maybe not. looked at the entire community both of 1% with all the capital and if we can to save the one channel on the radio where we can securely discuss issues like these and others and to me that is pretty tragic you also said famous scene to be getting worse all the statistics and the data so what would you say to people who say filming seeing left is class warfare? they are your accusing privy the opponent to be a subject of class warfare. if we cannot use congress were all those systems available to now represent allow a fraction so what is left except that? >> the rhetoric around class warfare i have found strange in this cou

tackle things like bullying or student safety or teacher training, basically using data to help kids get a better educationt kind of data and how do you apply it in a practical classroom or school system setting? >> sure. for example, many folks today are looking at bullying as an issue. we help our schools figure out, for example, one school we work with we helped them figure out who is being bullied, why is that happening and how can the adults at school actually intervene to prevent bullying. we've told them teachers can help stop bullying among ninth grade boys at your school. >> so you look at data across a system and your customers are school system, school districts or individual schools and they pay you to license the consulting. >> exactly. >> what's zuckerberg like to deal with as a partner? >> really smart, really thoughtful. he cares deeply about education as a personal issue that matters to him. he's been so smart and supportive and just very kind to us. >> and he certainly has put his money where his heart is in your company and the newark system there. we appreciate your being with us. >> in

the data should be used only for educational purposes the group says and not for advertising. common sense media sent a letter to 11 companies that collect kids' data including google apps for education, samsung, and scholastic. >>> a williams sonoma is getting a makeover. right where it all began. the company just got approval from sonoma's planning commission to open a brand new store and cafe and cooking school. right there on broadway in sonoma. the very place the founder chuck williams opened his first store in the 1950s. the 628 square foot store will be modeled after the original. the company is hoping the revamped model will help sales which have been declining the past several years. >>> well, still to come, a good night's sleep may make all the difference. new clues about what your brain does when you're actually sleeping. >>> and the mystery of yeti. the discovery dna has revealed. >>> i'm scott budman. as more technology finds its way into cars, more car companies are coming to silicon valley. coming up, further evidence that we may be the new motown. >>> and as you

researchers says women are better educated than their husbands. dataws that's not always a good thing. >> a study done by the university of chicago found that within a five-year time period, the divorce rate was 50 percent higher in couples where the woman was the bread winner. kay says he's not surprised. >> most people will say, that's not a problem at all. but in actuality, these marriages indicate less satisfaction. >> communication is key. >> it's important to make sure you have an equal partnership no matter who makes for. it doesn't matter who brings home the bacon. >> in my opinion, many women are equally smart. >> and going on three decades together they say that's the right philosophy. >> it's working obviously. >> andrea says women's attitudes are changing. more women want to work full-time instead of part-time or not at all. >>> we need to work on some rain. that needs to happen soon. >> mother nature's been working on too much sunshine around here. >> which has been wonderful and we appreciate it. >> we need the rain. yes, we do. but it's

education. that works. because the achievement gap exists before kids come to school. >> i've seen data on both early childhoodthe effect is nowhere as big as we would like it to be. >> it's one of many things but it's very important. and actually "the economist" magazine ranked the advanced nations of the world, and we were number 24 out of 45. in providing early childhood education. >> i want to play you a clip of michelle rie talking about testing. she's become kind of the face on a whole variety of education reforms. this is her talking about testing. >> we have to have measures by which we understand whether or not kids are learning. appropriately. right? so you have to have a standardized way to determine that. >> so two different ways of thinking about critiquing testing, right? one is the presence of testing themselves. the other is not having the right tests. sometimes it seems, in your book, you kind of move between those two different -- there's parts of the book where you say we need -- children need to not be worrying about testing particularly when the young feed to be creative and playful. but a

the funny thing is if you look at whole data from gallup what it shows is people are asked how is american educationoing. they have heard 30 years of american education is broken, it doesn't work, it's obsolete. so they american public education no good. how is your school, your neighborhood school. >> well, my neighborhood school is terrific. my deepers are gaechlt i love my teaches. >> jon: it like congress, you could look the say wam, my congressman is okay but the institution-- do you have time to stick around. we'll come back and talk a little bit more, reign of error on the book shelves now, diane ravitch. we'll come backith a with a

called panorama, the company says it is the only entity that uses specific data analytics to improve k through 12 education. the company recently said it had raised 4 milllion dollars in seed funding. meanwhile, facebook might need some analytics of its own -- the website wasn't accepting status updates or comments for part of the day yesterday. president obama is angry about breakdowns on the new health insurance website. but adds some of the glitches were caused by some 20 million americans jumping on line to grab at the chance to buy low cost health insurance. from the white house rose garden monday-- president obama offered no fully admited-- the government's health care website set up for people who want to shop for health care insurance is not working well. but says the website issues should not be the only focus. let me remind you the affordable care act is not just a website. it's much more." the president notes --the act-- adds new benefits for people on medicare and medicaid, offers free mamagrams and birth control to woman, gives coverage to people with pre-existing conditions and allows student

educational backgrounds. even tir marital status. he can tap into the open data provided by the national census and the local tax office. it's possible to find information about a specific area. >> our type of service we can provide to the client makes a difference and now with this in there we have more tools to provide a better service to the client. >> reporter: a japanese company has started a new service making use of public and private sector data. the venture company calil has six employees. it provides a service that allows users to check the availability of books in thousands of public libraries around japan. by entering the title of a book and key words, a user can find out which library has the book and whether it is currently available. the service began only three years ago but already some 400,000 people use it each month. this man is the president of calil. he uses data provided by public libraries around japan. his site displays the content of books and cover images by combining the open data with information obtained from major online retailer, a

education. she's 16. >>> google wants to turn more like facebook. using your name, and data. changes go into effect next month. techno is next. you can go to our website at www.aljazeera.com. thank you for your time. >>> welcome. i'm here to talk about innovations that change lives. we're going to explore the intersection between hardware and humanity. we're doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. so let's check our team of nerds. phil torres studies insects in the rain forest of ecuador and peru. tonight our real-life spider-man takes us to colorado where iron man comes to life helping one woman stand tall despite a devastating disability. this is an engineering who designed a buy

data shared by our u.s. attorney, representatives from the department of education confirm if we don't do anything about it, 13 million kids will become victims again for another year. some 3 million kids across the country will decide it is better to leave their school grounds than to continue their education. there will be more stupblting of the emotional and educational growth of our kids. all across the bay, whether working here in san francisco or alameda or sonoma or santa clara county. i want to thank you law enforcement officials here, instructors, community advocates, people who are concerned about our kids, they are our future and i would love to see a new generation of kids who don't know what bully is, who are not victims, who don't have those scars. but we've got to do today is sharing in the best practices, to be encouraged by programs like our roof top school here in san francisco who has traded a 50-person ambassador class that will talk about this, that will invite other kids, school administrators who have received the support of our school site administrators to encourage them to get this

education. ♪ old mcdonald >> reporter: research shows this style of teaching is also having a big impact on test scores. >> the dataoster grandparents have a higher education achievement level. >> reporter: in fact, one study administered by the corporation for national and community service show that 92% of mentored children in southern kentucky improved their math and reading comprehension in a single year. and it's not just the kids who benefit. older americans who volunteer report lower levels of depression. increased brain activity and lower mortality rates. and it's true for 59-year-old tony woods, a retired construction worker. >> sure, i know something, but i'm the one that's learning from them. >> it gives me a feeling of a generation. it's sometimes hard to explain. ♪ >> reporter: children and grandparents moving together that learning never gets old. for "today," rehema ellis, nbc news, washington. >> that's a great program. that's going to do it for us on this sunday morning. thanks for being with us. >> check in

educated about how important this issue is. the report on global burden of disease which came out based on 2010 data found that fine particulate air pollution globally was responsible for 3.2 million death as year. that is a very large toll. and part of that is for cancer. the new report from who recognizing that the fine particulate pollution is a carcinogen point points to deatm cancer, from cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, and their heart attacks may be coming from air pollution exposure. it's so much in the mind is the association between air pollution and the lungs and respiratory illness. >> doug brugge where are the studies that show that direct correlation, and when the who report came out one of the lead authors say it's significant to make the correlations because there is such a lag time. it's hard in studies to show because something may take years maybe even decades t to connectn ailment. >> yes, that's correct. it can take a long time for those studies to be completed. but in pollution the studies started a long time ago, and have reached a point by the early 1990s that they were providing very clear

a thinking that it's data you get could also be shared with the delake and those are both committees that actually empathize a lot of he parents and now we hear that the educators can be brought to the table too. i'm wondering if it would strengthen the delake and also you talked about your concerns about the members being appointed by next august. maybe it would reach tout out to the delake. i think those are two committees we want to see that are strong and a represent our voice of english learners. so i think when i read a report like this you said there were only 5 members there and delake could be lacking los also in strength. i'm concerned they're not up to the full advocates for our students. this is where i come from. i'm not suggesting it only requesting that. it came to mind >> sorry i'm so special because i'm charged with data over 6 years. so i'm not sure i will understand all but delake is a long-term problem because the families are from the elementary school school it's me. and those 92 no new face coming. and another problem is the bbc person. it's a lot of information go back to school talk to the parents and for the policy what do you do and a

the things that really alarms me other than the young data about young women, really alarmed me was the fact that the more professional, more educate you were, more likely you were going get in to trouble with alcohol. in fact, your one productive thing would be a blue collar job. that's a scary fact. it is scary as wiment -- women become more educated, as women are occupying the lion's share of the post secretary institutions across north america and elsewhere. what is happening to us? what is happening to us we think we have to numb and vacate without alcohol? it's more than celebration. something is going really wrong. and the market there is serve us. the drinking culture is alive and well. i want to put up my hand and say let's have a hard look what is going on. now your personal vulnerabilities. i should have known with two alcohol parents i was pretty vulnerable. no, you know, whether you're vulnerable to breast cancer, you should really know what you're putting down your throat, and take hard look at just like with everything else. are you safe? are you healthy? is it okay for you? if it is, wonderful. >> host: very good. v

the research and the experts, and the data can make it really come to life, and so it's a pretty simple thing actually, but you'll find there's not that many education books that do that, that talk to kids so it's not like, you know, it's not rocket science, but it's a basic way to make -- fill in the blind spots of all the research that feels very abstract, the reason i wanted to write the book because i kept reading about finland and korea, and i couldn't quite believe it, you know? it just didn't seem real, and i wanted to know what it was like to be a kid in these places, you know? was everything perfect? i knew it couldn't be. following the kids, the american teenagers for a year who were studying abroad there, made sense. >> one thing you point out early in the book is that for a long time, we really didn't have a particularly, i guess, robust benchmark for measures student performance across countries. the test that traditionally were given to our students and students around the world in which, you know, we would be compare against them tended to measure, you know, very basic rogue skills and didn't necessarily, you know, empathize critical

data plans. the progress on the protocols and policy educations will be reviewed by the newly created courtedon state csec native committee, established in 2013 legislative session and convened by the washington attorney general. ussons learned have brought to some promising systemic actions that could be undertaken by this subcommittee. first, providing guidelines, headlines, directions, and resources. providing guidance and incentives for collaboration on the pitch for collaboration and cooperation -- for collaboration and cooperation. critical to success is the necessary participation of the state and regional child welfare agency at its highest level. incentives to focus on children missing from care and recruit and train specialized foster homes to receive those who are found to be csec. safe and stable housing is the best option. specific resources through the court improvement act for judicial training and identification of sea sack -- of csec. providing trading to child welfare workers on the sec,tification of c including special assessment tools and mandating changes in state child welfare l

things that really alarmed me after a van the data about the young women would really alarmed me is the fact that the more professional and the more educated you were, the more likely you were going to get into trouble with alcohol and your wim protected and would be a blue-collar job, that is a really scary fact and it's scary because as women become more educated and as women are occupying the lion's share to the secondary institutions what is happening to us? what is happening to us that we think we have to vacate with alcohol? it's more than just a celebration. something is going really wrong and the market is there to serve us. so that feminized drinking culture is alive and well and i want to put up my hand and say let's have a hard look at what's going on and know your personal vana devotees. i should have known what to alcoholic parents than i was pretty vulnerable. know whether you are vulnerable to breast cancer. you should really know what you are putting down your throat and take a hard look at just like with everything else. are you say, are you healthy, is it okay for you and if it is, wonderful. >> host: i do like the print.

data is not doing? investing more, in relative terms, in a broader population. in the united states, our education system tends to sort people. if you are a good student, the next dollar we spend tends to go to you. think about the transition from high school to college. that is where the big sorting occurs. if you are good enough to go to college, we are willing to invest years in your preparation. we sort people out, and in the end, that is a good way to 15%, butn elite, top if schools sort, rather than educate, you are bound to have failure at the middle and in the case, the income distribution in the united states. host: how does it breakdown by age, doesn't matter? guest: it matters to the extent that you do not get a set of basic skills. if you do not have the ability to learn, if you do not get basic reading and math skills, most importantly, you are not ready to learn when you move into either college or on the job. the truth is, the big university in america is the job itself. that is the place where you getn for 45 years after you up everyday for breakfast, go to work and deal with state

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data analysis and feedback in 2010. he pledged $100 million to the public schools in newark, new jersey. does zuckerberg really like educationhe investing in future facebook users? >> i think it can be both. i think he's committed to education. he's proven that, as you mentioned, by the donation that he put to work in newark. but, you know, it's also an advantage for him to be known to those young students and i think he's doing both. i think he's trying to grow his business and invest in education. >> julia? >> look, tyler, ed tech space is very hot right now. it's an area that can really use improvement from technology. mark zuckerberg can create tools to help schools and teachers. i think it's a win-win and a particularly hot space not just for zuckerberg. >> cory booker is also maybe giving influence in that. amc planning to reportedly create a special row for people who like to text at the movies. barriers would shield light and sound from other movie goers. regal entertainment and imax exploring this idea. julia, what do you think of this? does texting at the theater bug you? >> yes, it drives me crazy. i'm a little bi

education system -- [inaudible] >> c. it's a great question. to kind kind of breakdown the datawill more what we have seen in the schools if you look at the test scores in the public school system in the grade schools and middle schools if you separate students by ethnicity and read those results in every category texas anglo and african-american students math reading through 4th-grader in the top five with their peers around the country and the reason the state as a whole gets in average -- is because of persistent racial and ethnic achievement gap which is in every state unfortunately. as far as how it plays out, there's an ongoing political discussion about how much funding matters to the schools. our schools spend half of what california's two per-capita but they are still getting better results. i think improving equity for the parents have seemed better economic outcomes across-the-board especially thinking about it in terms of the disparities that persist for ethnic groups in the state. if we did improve those outcomes we would see better outcomes in the schools overall.

finish their education, worst in the country among major college programs total worse on men's basketball team, just 38%. national average for major football program is 71%. keep in mind the data we're talking about here measures a time period from 2003 to 2006. so it doesn't have anything to do with a current coach at cal. cal athletics have a 78% graduation rate. officials say results are disappointing but steps have been taken to try to improve scores the graduation rates for same sports at stanford much, much high yefr -- higher >> from cal bears to a bear in pasadena. take a look at this little guy on the loose in pasadena area near the rose bowl. the bear has come out of the neighborhood back in the hills but there are game wardens tracking him now >> there are people on twitter talking about how he's too close to their properties. he's back up in the hills now. and the camera zoomed out you'd see officials as well as police officers trying to make sure he doesn't get too close to any people. he looked cute, cute on close up shots. he could have killed you in a second. we're hoping this resolves peacefully >> yes. police are telling people just stay in your homes for now

education. those figures have risen quite a bit. the total debt level has -- that figure, therellar is data showing it has hit $1 trillion already. figure has really captured the public imagination. it has surpassed credit card debt. that is one of the things creating real public pressure on higher education to get this figured out. the debt levels are increasing. the $200,000 figures you cite are rare, but they are astounding, and they tend to be people who have gone to gradual school -- graduate school, medical school, law school. were going to see the biggest debt issues raised in some of the graduate degree areas where can wee people saying, really afford to be having people humming out of graduate school with $200,000 in debt -- coming out of graduate school with $200,000 in debt? host: a comment on twitter -- guest: this whole set of data around the college board report we are talking about are all it.sed on who pays for that is one of the takeaways from this report am a which is that the reason we have seen net because up this year is outside support to offset tuition increases has abated. atre are people who look this and

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data? they've got clearances today? does that bother anybody here? that puts us at risk. so my question is whoever wants to answer my brought commentary or at least educate me in a different lesson, i'd love to have it. >> in january 1963, the communists did something they hadn't done before. they stayed and they fought and as a result, five americans were shut down. we americans were killed. kennedy sees us on the front pages of the times and says what is going on here, i thought we were winning this war? over the course of the next several months, in fact, beginning january and february, he will hear varying reports from white house officials, state department officials and military officials. giving really contradictory evidence about the state of the military campaign in vietnam. >> john foster dulles had recently died in the super air powered in chantilly, virginia was being built. the president announced he would be named dulles airport. for a while, when kennedy took over, he didn't want to name it after a crusty old warrior. there is pushback and paella decision was made to name it after dulles. you can still see the film clip of kennedy opening

data here. this shutdown is going to cost about $300 million a day over a billion dollars a week. you know, nasa is at 97% furlough. the department of educationhing is, the longer we go into this, the worse it gets. our government is going to have to start to purchase its services and goods basically in retail instead of purchasing in bulk. and the cost of that is extraordinary. but cruz is playing a strong game mere. the talking points memo is great, because it shows how sharp he is. but it's dangerous, as well. he's basically playing republican presidential politics ahead of the curve. you mentioned her man contain. when you look at herman cain and rick perry, those guys flamed out with the right wing madness during the campaign. he's doing that now so he will have those bona fides when he enters into the campaign in 2016. >> do you agree with that? >> i agree, but i'm not sure it's going to end up exactly that way. if you look back at really every president ever, certainly in modern history, the people who win, even the people who get nominated, are people who broad sections of the population can have a sense they're a good guy, a good --

education. it also shows that college really paid off. so we are always debating whether it's worth it to go to college, this is just another data point to say that it does. so from a policy standpoint, we need to focus on getting kids into college and through college. but also tells us that we have a lot of americans that lack basic skills and we need to address that. but there's some good fluid there. of those 36 million americans that have very low reading math skills many of them are young, and the majority of them are working. so we have a way to engage with them, we have a lot of research that tells us that people learn best when they learn at the workplace. and so we have a reel opportunity there to get a big economic -- a big educational bump by engaging with a very low skilled americans. >> so perhaps once possible part of the solution is adults getting additional education? >> absolutely. it absolutely is. and a lot of condos this very well. they do it better than we do of our investments in adult education are pretty small when you look at them compares to other countries and in particular, what other countries to well, that w

education and we are going to reduced our investments in the national science of foundation and national institutes of health, we are doing a great disservice to our country. in every way, evidence, science, data, let's know what we are talking about. we would all say we can proceed down this path if we all stipulate to a number. did they know about this umber? probably not. because if they knew about it, they would certainly care about t. are they in denial? are they just ignoring the facts? we will find out, but we owe it to the american people to put all that aside and to do what is best. and so again, our founders had such a vision for our country. the sacrifice of our troops, the aspirations of our children. to go into that room with knowledge about what the decisions are and that could be driven by an anti-government ideology that says whatever it s i do not like it because i'm here to limit government. we do not want any more government than we need, but some of those imitations of government are limitations on the aspirations of the american people. they do not reduce the deficit. we look forward to going to that table, but it is important for eople to know what the terms are as we go

education, redeuce our deficits, slow the rate of growth of the national science foundation or the national institutes of health, we are doing a grave disservice to our country. so in every way, evidence, science, data, let's know what we're talking about. then again, i, hen back to not that long ago when we would be negotiating with republican president bush in the white house and we would all say, we can proceed down this path if we all stipulate to a number. did they know about this number? probably not. if they knew about it, they would care about it. are they in denial? are they blind? just ignoring the facts? we'll find out. but we owe it to the american people to put all of that aside and to do what is best. so again, you know, our founders had such a vision for our country. we owe it to the vision of our founders, the sacrifice of our troop the aspirations of our children, to just go into that room in a knowledge-based way about what the decisions are. and not to be driven by an anti-government ideology that says, whatever it is i don't like it because i am here to limit government. well we don't want any more government than we need, but some of those limitations on government are limitatio

educational system has let us down on the semiskilled. >> i would think it would show up in part-time employment. but if you look at the data from all part-time workers, it hasn't shown any significant increase. you know, it's high level because of the recession so there are a lot of part-time workers relative to a more normal time, but it hasn't risen in the last couple of three years. when you would think it would in response to the health care reform. >> it has, we're up 123% since the recession. that's risen with us and, of course, our competitors have risen as well. last month, the american staffing association reported that we're up -- our industry was up 5% for the month. so it is showing up and i don't know why the numbers don't show up at the bls because maybe they don't even take us into account. i don't know. >> yeah. >> what -- the long-term people not looking, why, bob? that's got to be more than just -- it's not all government activism, is it? things have changed demographically? >> well, it has changed demographically. of course the more matured retired individual come back into the workforce trying to find a

data and they have clearances today? does that bother anybody here? that puts us at risk. so my question is, whoever wants to answer my broad commentary or at least educate me in a different direction, i'd love to have it. >> if i could just make one point and i'm sure my colleagues will jump in. you had noted -- and i think this is a misimpression that a lot of folks have that the contractors are doing both the investigations and the adjudications and that would be a really bad system. but in fact, the adjudication is not done by the contractors. it's done by the agency that's granting the clearance. >> [inaudible] >> no. those are -- that's an inherently governmental function. it's not something we would entrust to a contractor. i believe i'm right about that. >> [inaudible] >> you're using contractors for this clearance process. to me it would seem the clearance process in and of itself is a government function, not just the adjudication but the -- >> i'll turn that over to mr. jordan. >> senator, the collection of information, the analysis is not in inherently governmental function as director kaplan said. the decision, the adjudication is an inheren

education, redeuce our deficits, slow the rate of growth of the national science foundation or the national institutes of health, we are doing a grave disservice to our country. so in every way, evidence, science, data, let's know what we're talking about. then again, i, hen back to not that long ago when we would be negotiating with republican president bush in the white house and we would all say, we can proceed down this path if e all stipulate to a number. did they know about this number? probably not. if they knew about it, they would care about it. are they in denial? are they blind? just ignoring the facts? we'll find out. but we owe it to the american people to put all of that aside and to do what is best. so again, you know, our founders had such a vision for our country. we owe it to the vision of our founders, the sacrifice of our troop the aspirations of our children, to just go into that room in a knowledge-based way about what the decisions are. and not to be driven by an anti-government ideology that says, whatever it is i don't like it because i am here to limit government. well we don't want any more government than we need, but some of those limitations on government are limitation

to the deal we should die gather realtime data on what they know and able to do is absurd. the goal of education is not just to teach but to help our students learn. working together the vast majority of states are measuring essentials skills plus critical thinking. states are developing these assessments because they want parents to know the truth hall there during also to have the critical information they need to improve instruction. take a look at the sample items online. outside the bubble people are not arguing whether that we need to fix poverty or education. that is a false choice. protecting the safety net with a wraparound services feeding hungry children and their families to provide greater access to health services but we cannot use the brutal reality as a catch all excuse for educating children arabesque to beat the odds as thousands to year after year after year. our children only have one chance to get a great education they cannot wait for poverty to disappear. they don't want to waste one minute they're chasing the american dream with everything they have we have to help them g