elsie granderson, a cnn.com columnist and steve perry an education contributor. the latest act scores show only one in four high school graduates is ready for college. the test used for college admissions shows only 66% of the 2011 class met the benchmark for english. 45% for math. 30% for science. so steve, do these figures accurately reflect student preparedness? >> it absolutely does reflect how prepared students are because if it were the a.c.t. in and of itself we may be able to write it off. at least one third, one third of children going into college are taking remedial classes. in addition to that, we can look at the state standardized examinations in addition to some of the internationally normalized standardized examinations and what we're finding is that american students are simply not prepared for college. >> elsie, as students prepare to go back to school, many teachers are not, brutal budgeting season this summer has left most of america in pretty education dire straits. at least 34 states and district of columbia cutting aid from k to 12 schools,

and these are the top stories from the past week up next elsie's exclusive interview with mahmoud ahmadinejad's the president of the islamic republic of iran. president thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy show jewel to be on r.t. and to answer a number of questions that i'd like to put you in get your latest thoughts on domestic issues and international issues i'll start if i may with the story that made all the news headlines for the past six months that's unfolded in north africa and the middle east that's been the arab spring what are your views on the arab spring and we've spoken about it before but i just wanted to hear your latest thoughts do you think it's a popular uprising for the better to bring democracy or you think it's something maybe this people can straighten from abroad over three years or so little and we will we've seen very important developments in our region and in north africa it's not only about the people in the region today justice and dignity are among the requirements of all human beings africa has the same aspirations and i think our region has th

elsie stop stories president barack obama signed the last minute deal to raise the u.s. debt ceiling after the senate finally voted for the measure to avoid a forward but critics say there is little to cheer about as america still faces a whole chicken all week recovery. the u.n. security council resumes discussions on a resolution on syria after a bloody government crackdown on protesters in hama continues for a third day with more demonstrations reported killed adding to sunday's death toll is more than one hundred russia says any view on solution must be driven by the interests of the syrian people. seized by a tidal wave of antigovernment protests demanding sweeping economic reforms but demonstrators complained that summer of discontent is largely being passed over by the international media. as the headlines up next our financial expert max kaiser looks at low standards in high finance and what wall street would prefer you did so and the cause the report right here on our city. max kaiser they see her for this is the kaiser report today states you're going to be tal

social unrest in britain have been that fall to see for some time that's in the kinds of reporting on elsie. really you believe just science and technology from the ground. we go to the future are covered. as are stacy herbert i remember back in the day a famous quote from maggie thatcher. tell us more yes she said there is no such thing as society and the middle classes rejoiced as all that public housing came onto the market and they were on the property ladder today they are actually very surprised that there is no such thing as society and they're outraged and they act as if there's no contacts to the under arrest in the u.k. so i want to take you to a headline from two thousand and nine in the economist magazine global tinderbox two thousand and ten could be a year that sparks unrest yeah this is we covered this when it came out and the economist magazine blatantly was handicapping social unrest picking trying to figure out what countries are most prone to it and to do a point people are saying where does this come from who could have seen it coming it was it was a whole feature story

our reporters are on the ground of the on going international asho in the mosque a region stay with elsie for full coverage of monks twenty eleven as we china the business an aerobatic side of the about all through the weekend. for a. future flight. or to take to the air show. just ahead count out with the latest from the world of sport before about kareena got the business news for you. care about them to our business update the south thanks for joining me and we start with the markets which plunged into another round of volatility with fears of an underlying double dip the sentiment was spurred by a bouquet of negative data from europe and the us the russian forces are no exception they are extending losses from the previous session and peter weston from exxon says the r.t.s. in the my six just following the global trend. it's the same as you're seeing on a global scale it's really a market that is now driven by fear. the increasing concern that a state of the global another global recession took a real hold on the markets yesterday and what clients are trying to do is to try to figure

finance and wall to wall street would rather you didn't so it's all in the cards report right here on elsie. max kaiser i'm facing her for this is the kaiser report today states you're going to be talking a lot about risk and all of its forms tell us. as i go alone but still tell the people what you've got over there ok well let's start with the first headline max because that has risk in the actual headline t. bills no longer considered risk free by chicago mercantile exchange c.m.e. group announced monday that as part of a normal review of market volatility they claim it is determined that t. bills should no longer be treated as a grist cre when used as collateral haircuts on t. bills will rise from zero point zero percent to point five percent and. let's talk about this for a moment treasury bills you say when you have them in your portfolio and you use them as collateral you can borrow against them one hundred cents on the dollar and this is interesting because if you remember going back to the construction of collateralized mortgage obligations what they did was they created collateral

whatever elsy think of it, it's kind of fair. >> i think very highly of our former vice president. anyway, isn't part of the idea of the internet that there's all of this content out there that if you have access to it and obviously having access much mo information than you ever would have, and it should be free, and that the ability to, whether it's look up a diagnosis or learn about something that you're interested in finding out more information about, or e-mailing your friends or whatever it is, that there should be that provided to people without a cost? >> well, look, first of all, the real information is not the information you can get. it's not the information wikileaks can leak. it's the information hidden inside facebook and google and bing computers, and that's the information that corollates you and analyzes you so they can make money from selling you to advertisers. selling access to you. so there's sort of an illusion we're getting all the information, but the best information of the is the stuff we don't get. aside from that, make the argument anything should be fre

he told one of his ranch managers in regard to lsu elsie was beyond any healing and the ranch managers said, who it also lost his wife recently, started to console roosevelt and roosevelt cut them off and said now don't talk to me about time omega difference. time on the up or change that respect. of course we no it is not a good idea to say never. but roosevelt had no intention to remarry. he felt that to remarry within months or even years after his wife's death would be a sign of ethical and moral collapse, real lack of