we begin today with the local winner of t education nation contest, recipient from nbc. here on "communidad del valle." ryan bal main won a good chunk of change for his high school. congratulations. >> thank you. >> education nation is a nationwide campaign by the nbc network. tell us how you found out about it, and you had to write an essay. tell us about the essay. >> in the beginning of the year, when i first started, my broadcast journalism class, which is pretty underfunded class, my teacher told us of the opportunity, she came across it online i think, and she asked fuss we were interested, wanted to submit an essay. i took her up on the offer. >> what was your essay about? when you're writing essays, you have your topic and you describe it and defend it if you have to defend it. tell us about yours? >> i talked about how the broadcast journalism program like doing things, like we do the morning news and we make features about our school, and also things outside of school. and how it's a creative outlet that's not looked at much. most people think of art, like pain

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tomorrow we're on the road in philadelphia with education nation. r audience live from the national constitution center be there by 12:30 eastern on the mall. among our guests superintendent of philadelphia schools. and bill burton and michael steele. my colleague, tamron hall, has a look at what's next on "news nation." >> hey there, andrea. in our next hour we're following the latest fallout from anthony wiener's explosive admission. there are reports the congressman offered an adult film star, a porn star, pr advice to lie about their ongoing relationship. what happens next here? >>> plus, new comments from president obama about may's disappointing jobs report as a new poll finds americans give the president his worst marks yet on the economy. "news nation" is just minutes away. plus restoring rinse. it's the only listerine® that gets teeth two shades whiter and makes tooth enamel two times stronger. get dual-action listerine® whitening rinse. building whiter, stronger teeth. until the combination of three good probiotics in phillips' colon health

. >>> education nation. is it time for schools to rethink the zero tolerance policy? after losing his job, they find a new purpose with a reward to last a lifetime. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> i'm lester holt. in tonight for brian. remarkably, that stubborn wildfire in arizona we have been telling you about for days now is still burning completely uncontained. covering now over 600 square miles and blanketing several more with layers of smoke. tonight, firefighters are making a stand around the threatened hamle hamlett, greer, it's threatened by fire which is one of the last communities to get out. >> reporter: good evening, lester. it started with sparks from an unattended camp fire. it's now burning a big chunk of arizona as firefighters try to save a people and trees behind me. the biggest concern right now is the mountain retreat of greer. firefighters are setting backfires and trying to construct barriers to save the community. six structures were burned. firefighters got a break from the wind today as the heavy gu

. >> "this is america" is made possible by the national education association, the nation's largest advocate for children and public education. the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. the rotondaro family trust. the ctc foundation. afo communications. and the american life tv network. >> tell me a little bit about the relationship between kurdistan and the u.s. military over the last number of years. >> it is a relationship that is growing and i think a strengthening, even though we have not had large u.s. military bases in kurdistan. there is a great appreciation from the u.s. military to the role of the kurds in operation iraqi freedom. we were the only real indigenous force, organized force that fought side-by-side with the americans during iraqi freedom and suffered the second-highest number of casualties. we pride ourselves on the fact we fought alongside the americans to fight for our country and build a future for ourselves and i think that appreciation is evident throughout the security establishment in th

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also, msnbc's andrea mitchell will be anchoring her show live from the education nation experience in on wednesday. you can be part of her live audience. >>> oscar winner reese witherspoon gives a few words of advice to aspiring starlets. you can expect to see the cast of the "jersey shore" through a fifth season and kanye west premieres the full version of the corpse filled video to his record mon sist recordster -- monster. >>> reese witherspoon, she accepted the generation award. she really did slam people who make sex tapes to become famous, put out pictures, the likes of which we have been talking about a lot in the news today in connection with anthony wiener. this is what she had to say at the show last night. take a listen. >> i just want to sabre to all the girls out there, i know it's cool to be bad. i get it, all right? it's cool to be bad, but it's also possible to make it in hollywood without a reality show. when i came up in this business, you made a sex tape, you were embarrassed and you hid it under your bed. and if you took naked picture of yourself, hide your face, p

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." >>> news from education today making up our "education nation" report tonight on what's called theation's report card. it gives us a snapshot of how our kids are doing in various subjects. when it comes to history, the results out today are clear. improvement needed, as the teachers say, for those in grade school. all the way up to our high school seniors. our report tonight from our chief education correspondent, rahema ellis. >> time's up. >> reporter: at this middle school in los angeles, today's lesson is on u.s. history. >> take two or three minutes and put it in your own words. >> reporter: eighth grade students in this class were asked a typical question included on a nationwide test. identify at least one advantage american troops held over the british in the american revolution. >> they had more leadership support. the british had to go overseas to get all the way to america. >> reporter: are they right? the answer in a moment. across the country, 30,000 students were tested on their knowledge of u.s. history. the nation's report card released today shows fourth, eighth an

it is a comparison that was done by the national education association, a ranking of the states for 2010. it shows how far behind california has fallen in comparison to the national average, in funding public education. it has gone from 82% of the national average to 78% of the national average. this was what the -- our graf looked like back in january. as you can see, the last time we were fully funded was in 2007- 2008. since then, the blueline is what we should have been funded. the line below, the brown line, is what sanford cisco unified actually gets in our revenue limit funding. there is a dotted line which represents -- in 2011-2012, which represents what would have happened if the cut had been implemented. we would have received a little less than $4,800, where we would have actually had received $6,500. this is a similar chart revised for the may revision. again, there is a gap between what should be funded and what is not. back to the bar chart of 1048, i believe the number was, that is the variants. now for this high level multi- year projections would put together and just r

in national takeover education should be just as important as the national takeover of health care. >> i agree with you. i use that as something that would be unacceptable. >> i think some issues will come up with the pledge. >> thank you, good to see you. three years into a business four-year term, you still have huge numbers of americans out of work -- your three years into obama's four-year term, he still have huge numbers of americans out of work. it breaks your heart to have some in people suffering as they are. obama's policies have failed america. it is time for new direction. >> [unintelligible] >> thank you. jeb is the best and, is nt? >> colorado does a little guy? creeks seven months. >> we are live in pennsylvania where rick santorum is set to make his formal announcement for president this morning. this is happening on the steps of the courthouse in somerset, pennsylvania, which is the town where rick santorum's grandfather emigrated to from italy back in 1925. former senator santorum was on "good morning america" this morning and said he will run for president next year

education. it does not seem to be a topic in this campaign. i am going to ask a question about the national takeover in education by the obama administration, which is similar to the national takeover of health care. i hope that this becomes more important in the campaign. especially when the chosen candidate runs against him. as governor you had some of the highest academic standards in the country. >> number one. [applause] >> your students were scoring the highest in the country. proving that this should be a state and local control the issue. right now we have obama taking over education, setting national standards, giving us a defect of national curriculum. they can call it what they want, but we will wind up with a defacto curriculum. by question is -- tell me your views on as, first of all, and would you come out against this? i am looking for a candidate that will be vocal in explaining to everyone what is going on, letting them know that we are going to fight against this. what are we going to do when they set the standard? where are these parents with lousy curriculum schools goin

one-on-one, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nationcause we believe an educated world is a better world. enacted ten years ago. according to the center on budget and policy priorities. democrats are looking at millionaires and billionaires to shoulder the burden and pay higher taxes once the tax cuts expire next year. jan schakowsky a democrat from illinois. let me ask you about this, congresswoman. $2.6 trillion added to the national debt according to these groups, a couple of them, by the way, include the joint economic committee. would we be better off without the bush tax cuts never been enacted, period? >> you mean for middle income as well as for upper income? >> if we had to choose between no tax cuts at all or what we got, would we be better off with not having passed that ten years ago? >> well, we may be better off, but certainly, the bulk of the tax cuts went to the wealthiest americans and created the biggest gap in income between the very rich and everyone else that we've seen since 1928. but you may be right, but certainl

one-on-one, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation an educated world is a better world. >>> the republican campaign has hit the beach, politically. a week from now the kand days six of them face off in the first real debate of 2012. here's what i think is going on in the inside. sarah palin she's playing tammany hall political boss. her agenda knock off mitt romney. she's got real problems with hichl one, she doesn't want him to win. not mitt romney running the country for eight years. i can give you several reasons. look at her background, look at his. do you really think he's her kind of republican? she hoed a bit of this attitude last week going to new hampshire and big footing mitt. knocked him out of the ballpark. that bus of hers rolled over his chili fest. second, knock off michelle bachmann. she's getting in the race showing up for monday's next big debate. she's a real life candidate and sarah baunts her off the scope. she's out to knock them off the course. she backs the alternative to romney. tim pawlenty the exgovernor of

gifts on earth, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nationve an educated world is a better world. >>> time for tonight's rewrite. john edwards turned down a last minute plea deal that would have saved him the risk of becoming a convicted felon. but would have meant serving time in a federal prison. instead he pleaded not guilty and will go to trial saying he has broken no law and his attorneys will make this case. >> in the history of the federal election campaign law, no one has ever been charged either civilly or criminally with the claims that have been brought against senator edwards. >> greg craig an able attorney is absolutely right about that. his words are being echoed by many commentators on this case, but they are all wrong to use the novelty of the case as a reason not to bring the case. no, we have never seen a prosecution like this because we have never discovered a candidate who was trying to get and use a million dollars from rich friends to cover up an affair and the birth of a child within the affair so he could preserve his

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one-on-one, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nationn educated world is a better world. power, precision, cutting edge. >>> breaking news tonight. that austin ghoulsby chair of the president's council of economic advisers will leave the post in time to return to the university of chicago for the fall semester. he has been an adviser to president obama since she was a state senator in illinois. mr. goolsbee a member of the council from the beginning of the administration. among the things that endeared him to tv producers was his web videos in which he explained economic policies and their results on a big white board with erasable markers. the white house indicated they hope to find his successor as quickly as possible. the position requires senate confirmation and right now the u.s. senate -- it is impossible to get confirmation that today is monday and ice is cold let alone anybody through the senate and into an important job. the news out of the white house today on a day where anthony weiner's sex scandal press conference dominated

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gifts on earth, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation is a better world. >>> welcome back, everyone. anthony weiner is the latest in a long line of politicians who have tried to hide unethical behavior and of course the hallmark and the reason political scandals immediately get the suffix "gate" stapled to them is president nixon and watergate. joining me is john dean, he served prison time for his roll in the could ofup but will soon are teaching lawyers in the lessons he learned from watergate. reappreciate your time. >> thank you, thomas. >> i first want to start with the ethical decision you had to make in the days following the watergate break-in. whatever your first thoughts and did it ever go through your mind to consider resigning or alerting authorities to what this h taken place? >> it did. that's one of the reasons we're teaching this. the rules have changed a lot in the last 40 years. one of the things the lawyer has to do is consider exactly those things at this point. at the time i was there, the rules were so strict on con

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it's part of the national education progress. it's a u.s. history test. 12% of 12th graders are at or above proficiency. i asked a teacher about this, though, pedro, and she told me i can't spend two more minutes having someone memorize a picture of the president in the 1800s. i've got a lot of other things going on in the classrooms. they've got a lot of challenges. >> absolutely. >> what are we supposed to do about it? >> what's on the test in most tests in elementary school is math and literacy. where does social study fit? where does science fit in? where was the foreign language fit in? what gets tested is what goes into the classroom. we can't allow a test to drive instruction. assessment should be used to diagnose needs and not rank kids. policymakers who don't under the issue who continue to focus narrowly on tests even while the evidence shows our kids aren't being well educated. >> bill, i want to read you what arne duncan said, the results tell us as a country we are failing to provide children with high quality, well-rounded educ

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it is a difficult for our secretary of education to do national policy when all of our districts are very different. but some of the things you guys spoke about today, we do try to tap into those resources. the grants that help our lowest performing schools in our district. those additional dollars that come down from the feds for that. there is a jobs bill that enables us to keep our teachers because of the budget cuts that have been devastating from the state level. there's a lot of different things, whether it is the juvenile justice component, whether it is looking at family services or thinking about promise neighborhoods. we will be looking to see how we bring communities together in different areas of our city, and we will apply it to those dollars. we do take advantage of what the feds do think about. so a lot of the things you guys are talking about today -- some of those things are already in the works. this was a great opportunity to hear more about those solutions. so there would be more dollars available for the needs in the different communities. you have to remember, f

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gifts on earth, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nationieve an educated world is a better world. >>> back now with kate gosselin, per hit tlc reality show "kate plus 8" returns with a twist. she gets a surprise night out in new york city while the kids reek havoc back home. good morning. >> good morning. >> this is nice to have you by yourself with your buddy that takes to new york city. what was that like to be without the kids? >> a surprise. a very good surprise. it was -- i don't know. i just realized how much i'm at home and working. and it was one of the best weekends ever. >> did you hit you that maybe you've neglected yourself along the way, or does that come with the territory, being a mom? >> yeah, it does. i focus more on my kids and exercise and i haven't neglected myself, but, you know, she had to throw in a couple things that made me uncomfortable. >> like what? >> well, she made me go to a club. we all know how i don't dance. >> well, you know, that's not fair. you did a good job on "dancing with the stars." you did. you don

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it's the national voices for equality education and enlightenment. while it focuses on helping kids prevent and deal with bullying, it also wants parents to make time for their children. the group says when a child knows he or she is loved, then he or she is less likely to become a bully. >>> sarah palin is defending the u.s. history flub she made when her east coast bus tour stoped in boston last thursday. when asked about the revolutionary war hero, paul revere, palin claimed his famous massachusetts ride was intended to warn the british along with americans. according to history, revere alerted americans to an impending british attack. here's what palin had to say this morning on fox news sunday. >> warned the americans the british were coming, the british were coming. they're going to try to take our arms. we have to protect ourselves and shoring up our firearms so they couldn't take it. remember the british had already been there, many soldiers, for seven years in that area, and part of revere's ride, and it wasn't one ride, he was a courier, a

education. it does not seem to be a topic in this campaign. i am going to ask a question about the national takeover in education by the obama administration, which is similar to the national takeover of health care. i hope that this becomes more important in the campaign. especially when the chosen candidate runs against him. as governor you had some of the highest academic standards in the country. >> number one. [applause] >> your students were scoring the highest in the country. proving that this should be a state and local control the issue. right now we have obama taking over education, setting national standards, giving us a defect of national curriculum. they can call it what they want, but we will wind up with a defacto curriculum. by question is -- tell me your views on as, first of all, and would yocome out against this? i am looking for a candidate that will be vocal in explaining to everyone what is going on, lettg them know that we are going to fight against this. what are we going to do when they set the standard? where are these parents with lousy curriculum schools going to

whereas over there in happier nations their policies are geared toward helping the working class the majority the people who vote from government investments in education health care and labor the happy nations spend far more of their g.d.p. on social programs and we do here in the united states so even though we seem to get a lot of enjoyment out of our badly corrupted political system and what corporate shills like sarah pail and mitt romney are doing and which team will win our corporate own politics are actually making us on happy it's the one thing standing in the way of americans finally achieving the happiness they hope for what's the point of being exceptional as robert ronald reagan would describe america if that exceptionality doesn't make us happy. until we fix our elections kick the corporate millionaires and billionaires out and claim once and for all that our democracy belongs to we the people that is part of the commons and will always be stuck in the muck wondering if this is as good as it gets. that's the big picture first night for more information the stories we covered visit our website thom hartmann dot com and our teams are also c