we're operating fact from fiction. but first, more than 3 million public school teachers head to the country every day in this one. parents usually don't know how their child ranks compared to others until recently. new york city's department of education released ratings for 18,000 of its public school teachers and 217 charter school teachers and 50 special ed teachers. those ratings are based on student test scores in english and math and they covered students in grades 4 through 8 between 2007 and 2010. but not all teachers' scores were released and this is a margin of error. that margin is 35 percentage points from math and 53 percentage points for english. steve perry is a cnn contributor and principal of capital prep school. also the author of american schools, the art of creating a democratic learning community. all right, guys, thanks for joining us. people talk about this for a week. parents, teachers alike trying to figure out if this is a good thing to know how your teacher ranks. new york city mayor michael

no movie has ever blended fiction and reality as much. (robert altman) we created a candidate and put him out on the road and so it says you're doing a documentary film following gary hart around; we were following mike murphy or jack tanner around. and we put a staff around him and we operated as if that's the way it was happening. no, i think it's going to be you and me in the final stretch if i can hang on that long. good luck see ya in november. (robert altman) we had a fictional character that we were passing off into a world of real people. where i seem to feel i get the best results is by finding what the arena is and then set up that event and let it happen. i'm trying to give the audice a sense that, "oh, this is really happening maybe." and i'm trying to just break that fourth wall out. so our techniques became the same way. our lighting reflected that. we didn't want any good movie lighting because you say, "well, how could they get that with hand-held videocams?" so suddenly we were -- the medium was the message. (haskell wexl

obviously a fictional cartoon character.you see a real bear showing off some martial arts moves, well, that's a recipe for millions of hits and a lot of people scratching their heads and saying, there's just no way. this video starts out like any other shot by a tourist visiting the zoo. but it quickly turns into a scene from "crouching tiger, hidden black bear?" ♪ >> it's, like, always on the verge of going out of control. and not once does the bear hit himself in the face. like that's really impressive. >> i love this one. the kind that you watch it and even if you're by yourself at the computer, you start giggling but you can't stop yourself. >> no one's heard of the teenager mutant ninja bears. is this the work of a talented visual effects artist? or is this black bear channeling the ghost of bruce lee? >> it does look really fake. so much dexterity. >> when animals do something that looks human, we're just taken aback by it. we think how the hell did it do that? it's crazy. >> i was waiting to find out what camera trick

they are fiction. he meets a scientist who lives next door to him who is so clearly stephen hawking as he would be without his disability. so clearly the same person. anyway they have these adventures and it is sort of science fiction but there are huge sections of the book that are in a different colored print and those are the sections that are the real science. there's a lot about black holes and various things like that. wonderful books. a really terrific. >> maybe the wrong person but didn't he get notoriety for saying he didn't believe in god and god was incompatible with science which reverses would you were saying? >> i don't think he ever said he believes in god. in a brief history of time he comes out with the no boundaries proposal and begins with no beginning to the universe and wipes out the need for a creator. he said some very atheist statements to the media about belief in an afterlife and the fairy tale because we are already computers and when the computer gives up it just dies. one r

you have it in fiction as well as non fiction.where along the line we were taught that non fiction is simply facts. it is not truth. facts wrapped around a story. facts put in a story. let's go back to that porch again, this time my mother in that soft tone of hers. she would tell hair raising ghost stories. she would start at the hour of the dark:30. that is 30 minutes before it gets all the way dark and the monsters come out. and i can hear her say, you used to be a woman who appeared under that street light over there and our heads would all go as one with the street light. it was though we were looking for the lady who walked in front of our house and didn't have a head. when she got to this street light she vanished. then in the same breath she would say, now would you go into the house and get me a drink of water? i would have to go into that creeky old house all by myself. it wasn't so bad in the living room because the lights from the front porch, but she had a table that had claw feet and i knew it was going to snatch me

sounds like science fiction. dr. kim mulvihill explains how we are getting closer to the real thing. >> the most incredible adventure that man could ever achieve! >> reporter: the 1966 movie "fantastic voyage" a submarine full of scientists is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into the bloodstream of a seriously wounded diplomat. 46 years later the idea sounds less farfetched. >> we did it. >> reporter: in this lab at stanford, engineers are perfecting their fantastic voyage. >> i know we can make it smaller. >> reporter: the professor says smaller is the name of the game. >> if in this project for more than four years so we encounter a lot of obstacles on the way and then we solve them one by one. >> reporter: instead of a battery which takes up lots of space, this device is powered wirelessly with electromagnetic radiowaves. >> the prototype is three mill meters by four millimeters. you can see here we have a 2 by 2 receiving antenna. >> reporter: a new class of medical devices is so small they can travel t

they are wonderful, fiction.

they are fiction.at is interesting is he meets a scientist who lives next door to him who is so clearly stephen hawking as he would be without his disability. it is so clear, it's the same person but anyway then they have these adventures. it is sort of science-fiction but they are huge huge sections of the book that are kind of removed. they are different color print in those are the sections that are the real science. there is a lot about lack holes, various things like that. they are wonderful books. they are really terrific. >> you touched on this a little bit but didn't he give some notoriety for saying that he did believe in god and god was reconciled with science and then reversed himself as you are saying? >> i don't think he has ever said he believed in god. in a brief history of time he talked about the no boundary and because it wipes out at beginning. there is no beginning to the universe and he wipes out the need for a creator. he has made some very atheistic statements to the media about,

and i said, "no, only on a fictional one." he said i did a good job. but he said, "if you want a little more, just let me know." tavis: you could not want more. >> if he said, "you guys do a good job" -- tavis: you mentioned a moment ago, and you mentioned, it. this is a long way from "dharma & greg." >> and almost could not be farther away. -- it almost could not be farther away. tavis: did you like it? >> yes, i did. if someone asks what the definition of success is, it would be to work on as many kinds of things as possible. i did it as a younger actor, i worked on a crutch for a summer where you did two or three shakespeares, and you did a different one almost every night, and it is an amazing experience to have that kind of variety from night to night, and this certainly is a challenge, in your 7 now, to find those things that are fresh and interesting -- in year 7 now, to find those things that are fresh and interesting. it makes it challenging. the characters grow. things happen in their lives. this job has a big impact on their personal lives a

absolutely so as it was fiction so when we wrote this book we went out interviewed real life business people across the country we interviewed a significant number of fourteen of whom in their profile in the book telling their real stories not the fiction but the real life stories about how they went to public schools how they benefited from g.i. bills on a personal level how maybe they got some head start so they were lucky. but they also talk about the stories of their business and how their business depends upon the transportation infrastructure on the courts to protect the copyrights and in the education system to provide them with an educated workforce time and time again through these true real life stories we get a much more on estate yes it's more nuanced it's more complex but it's more on a story of wealth creation and it leads to a healthier set of public policy choices i think was david cay johnston although it might have been sharp collins who coauthored the forward to your book has a chapter in one of their books called bill gates welfare queen i'm pretty sure it's david

is this real or just science fiction? i can't tell you for sure, but one thing i can say is that in the world of mathematics, higher dimensions aren't fiction at all, they are reality. captions by lns captioning portland, oregon www.lnscaptioning.com >> for information about this and other annenberg media programs, call... and visit us at...

greed right down for instance from what sure as an offense suffers a french term great from the fictional ratings agency that sometime egypt declared the crippled country in dad's or next day. up next there is the kaiser for london this is a from marx kaiser sees a harvest. to reveal the scheme which how greece is joining the euro zone by masking its massive debts and how it's orchestrates our bonds at time to crossfire . this is the kaiser report trickle down effect in the cold. syrup and yes max who are seeing financial crimes all over the place right well the feds have apparently acted they are able to act six charged in federal crackdown on happening by anonymous lol sex groups so who we know of a little second member admitted to hacking sony and also the computer system used by fox broadcasting company rupert murdoch's news corporation according to u.s. authorities so sabu and these other defendants face as much as one hundred twenty two and a half years in prison according to the judge involved in this case yeah well what about the hackers who hacked into m.f. global accounts but wh

this year a non-fiction award goes to maya gosseniff.[applause] for giving bose to a nation and continuing to fuel political life today, the canadian border, next to nothing about the fate of those colonial partisans on the losing side of the american revolution. part of the brilliance of harvard historian maia gossen f gossenoff's story is to expose the global game changer that created a diaspora of 60,000 refugees in search of safe-haven throughout british atlantic empire in britain itself along the inhospitable shores of africa and even in india and australia. the crisis precipitated lasting reverberations to help britain come to its own imperial enterprise. liberty, a vest reconsideration of the global effects of the american revolution smuggled into a concise, splendidly written book. an exemplary work of gumshoe research into the lives of loyalists with an eye on larger historical patterns. what makes liberty in exile a remarkable book of history is how skillfully she synthesizes the forgotten -- with an overarching view of the his

there are horror stories about non-fiction authors put it to say we will do right bayou. people often ask what do mean? a good example is the schmidt has the conversation about the deaths of sarah palin how she struggles with debate prep and i am not sure if steve was in the broom closet. it does not matter but what matters. [laughter] >> i was in my office. [laughter] >> fewer cleaning products? >> >> it is another example of programming cuddy edge programming to win a and it emmy awards. what have you learned from that process? >> everything. this and amazing process. the first time i have ever interviewed real-life participants to turn their story into a movie. >> what do you do if you have a conflict between the book? >> we had to resolve it. lot of that resolution came from mark and john and an example is sarah palin recently said she was never in a funk in the campaign been in her book she never describe the emotional defense leading up to that. the book lays it out. you have a conflict. how does that resolve? talk to the actual people that were there. the overwhelm

[laughing] now, sheldon, you've written books about a fictional defense attorney. the stories that you tell really get into, i think, the issues and stories of our time. and that's why your books have been so popular. first of all, you know, how did you become a writer? why did you become a writer? and how did you end up writing did a criminal defense attorney in san francisco, of all places? >> i was not told i would follow tony serra. i need to go back and prepare a little more. [laughing] i learned something, too. i guess i better stand up. [laughing] i'm really honored to be here. i'm the toy department. i write novels about the types of cases that lawyers like tony handle. in the daytime i work for a big law firm of the type that tony probably would not hold in the highest of esteem, but i'm delighted to be here. you know, i think if you talked to most authors, they will tell you that there is something hot-wired into our system that says we need to try to tell a story. there is nothing at all in my background. i am an absolutely accidental writer. there is no

some quick foods to get more energy, let's do quick fact or fiction on some of these.ction, caffeine gives you more energy. >> yes. i think we all know this is true. it's absolutely true. now you don't want to overdo it. so the rule of them is two to three cups a day. or about 250 milligrams of caffeine. it can definitely give you a boost. if you go over that, especially if you're sensitive to it, you might have the opposite where you're jittery and unable to concentrate. it's not going to help you. >> is it better to space out your caffeine through the day? >> it is generally better. however after 2:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m. it could interfere with your sleep. >> fact or fiction, energy supplements give you more energy. >> well, for the most part these supplements are really caffeine-like stimulants. and i really prefer the caffeine. because when you're coming to a supplement you're not exactly sure how well it's been studied and how safe it is. it can have some side effects. i would stick to the caffeine. >> i think we already know the answer to this one. being outside bo

we believe the censorship is targeting a small subset of iraq a fiction the same censored themes are prevalent in much mainstream fiction we believe it would be unfair to authors and readers alike for any organization to censor what writers are allowed to imagine what readers are allowed to read if the paper restrictions were taken to the extreme and many mainstream classics including lolita are gone with the wind could technically be banned even the bible could fall under the net since it contains scenes of rape and incest right remember pay pal was one of the first to jump in on the wiki leaks blockade which shut down funding for wiki leaks and shut down a major voice of independent voice freedom of the press and this was unbelievably. immoral and completely out of their men. date as a corporation and now they've extended it to just cherry pick items that they like they don't like this is erotica next thing they'll be saying well this author you know we don't like the his syntax you know we get frank rich from new york times review the books he doesn't like it so we're not going to

. >> brown: and speaking of the markets: we turn to a very different, fictional take on wall street in the form of thriller with a plot line drawn from real life. that's the subject of newshour economics correspondent paul solman's conversation. part of his ongoing reporting: "making sense of financial news." >> reporter: not every novel gets its own trailer, especially not novels about the world economy. but then again, few novelists have a track record like robert harris'. >> this is what it's like being on the campaign trail with the prime minister in 1983. >> reporter: after years as a british journalist, robert harris turned to speculative thrillers, so popular, they've consistently reached a mass audience. "fatherland," an hbo movie; "archangel," a bbc mini series; and "the ghost"-- renamed "the ghost writer" when filmed by roman polanski. but harris latest book, "the fear index," stars a hedge fund driven by an algorithm run wild and the more harris researched its plot, the more plausible it seemed to become. >> i had never heard about algorithmic trading. i went to see a hedge

cook was 14 when she found scientology, a religion established in the 1950s, by the science fiction writer, l. ron hubbard. debbie cook so firmly believed in scientology, she went to work full-time for the church. she rose all the way up to the rank of captain, at the church's so-called flagbase, in clear water, florida. >> welcome to the mecca of scientology. >> reporter: but in around 2005, cook says she started to see high-level members of the church behave in ways she found deeply disturbing. it began, she told us, when she was apt to start working more closely with the leader of the church, david miscavige. >> one thing that has always set us apart is we are unselfish. we have a monopoly on solutions. but we share those solutions for anyone who reaches for them. >> reporter: missavidge is best-known for the world's scientology, tom cruise. >> the most dedicated scientologi scientologist, i know. >> i have never met a more competent, a more intelligent, a more tolerant, a more compassionate being. we are lucky to have you. and thank you very much. >> reporter: but debbie cook has testi

>> hbo has made a movie that is a piece of fiction.ot fact. >> hbo has a responsibility to make a movie that's accurate, and they made a movie that's accurate. >> reporter: john heilemann, one of the authors of the book "game change," stands by his reporting. >> the film takes some dramatic license. as any movie that is a dramatization will do. but on the particulars in question, the movie's 100% accurate. >> reporter: this depicts the powerful moment she was introduced to america. >> senator, i am honored to be chosen as your running mate. >> sarah, sarah! >> reporter: it very well may be that sarah palin is something of a rorschach test. >> thank you. >> reporter: people see what they want to see in her, depending on what side of the political spectrum they come from. >> the movie shows areas in which she was an incredibly powerful, magnetic, human element in the mccain campaign, where she performed extraordinarily well under bad circumstances. it also shows the ways in which she fell short. >> reporter: sarah palin makes clear she'l

you wrote this from scratch as a piece of fiction you would struggle to find forces perfectly designed to clash in the conflict they passed later. >> authors said you were true to the book. most of the people said you were true to history. you went beyond the book and doug in deeper with some of your own reporting. >> i interviewed 25 people, wanted to get their stories and it was important to me to interview people that were -- that really loved sarah palin and were very loyal to sarah palin as well as people who were not. then i went beyond those interviews to any other source material people the most helpful secondary sources with sarah palin's own book going rogue which was an account of her feelings about the event. really strong scenes from the film like the call that comes from her book. >> she is in a war zone. >> much of that dialogue is almost verbatim as she recounts it in her book and there were several. the huge bulk of the movie is game change, "game change" is a book. 90% of the movie is "game change" and when you combine the interviews and other books, the magazine and

if you misrepresent the application that issues a permit, that is on its face a fiction. to say that a permit for final inspection, all work is complete, is then constructed from scratch, they have admitted it here. your process involves a long and patient record of proposed construction. when this happened, the face that everyone who follows the rules has in the process is harmed. -- faith that everyone who follows the rules has in the process is harmed. we would like the -- this would have happened if there were allowed to review the permit application. we're not try to do something that should not already have been done. thank you for your time. president fong: project sponsor, you have a two-minute rebuttal. >> pass. commissioner miguel: i could say a lot about the d.r. process but i am going to skip all that. the only thing i see in front of us is a building permit basically to lower the roof. since that is the only thing in front of us that has been done, i am going to move that we do not take d.r. and approve. >> second. commissioner antonini: i feel the same way.

her writing both fiction and non-fiction stands on its own two feet. she's about ten years younger than ernest. she's going, ernest, cuba is yesterday's story. we need today's story. we need to go to europe. we need to position ourselves for the invasion, for what's going to happen out there. ernest resists. he said i've got an important mission in cuba. she goes off for awhile to europe. he stays home. he writes her. he's an amazing letter writing. one of the interesting things about working on ernest, he writes five, six, seven letters a day. these letters, they're not like tweets. he's writing, two, three, seven, eight, nine, ten pages. so there's a lot of correspondence between martha and ernest during this and they call each other names like bug and mooki and whatnot. so he stays in cuba, writes these sort of teenage love letters. and she's in europe doing a good job as a correspondent and getting ready for the big show. the pressure is building up on her. how am i going to get ernest here and save my marriage? she's not stupid. she still wants to

i heard a famous novelist say once that the best fiction makes us constantly ask, hmmm, what's going to happen next? it seems to me that would be a really exciting question in the non-fiction world of business as well. i'm lou heckler. >> susie: that's "nightly business report" for friday, march 9. we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your support. >> tom: support that makes programs like "nightly business report" possible. >> susie: thanks for joining us and don't forget to support your public television station. i'm susie gharib. have a great weekend everyone. you, too, tom >> tom: goodnight, susie. i'm tom hudson. we'll see all of you again next week. "nightly business report" is made possible by: captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

chelsea general is a fictional hospital. cnn dr.rst novel called "monday mornings" on shells now. nice to have you. big party last night celebrating your book release. >> even got my parents to come. it's a party. >> hugely proud of you. >> it's called "monday morning" because this is when the five doctors meet. is this fictional or something you experience as a doctor? >> no that type of meeting where it's a doctors only sort of meeting no, lawyers or administrators invid does happen. just about every teaching hospital and most private hospitals as well. it's sort of a quality assurance conference, this isn't about punitive things but if you made a mistake, i want to be able to talk to you about that so that you don't make that dismake again but also nosh else listening in the room is a mistake as well. >> is that why you did a fictionalized can't because you couldn't do it as true lives, true stories? >> we talk about mistakes a lot. what happens after the mistake? i thought it to be as honest as i possibly could, i thought fictio

henry fell, there was no other confederate fort fiction between ft. henry down to the head of navigation. the union navy at that moment controlled the tennessee river with the commerce. the whole section of the -- on either sides of the banks of the tennessee, commerce was now cut off. same for cumberland. on the other side of cumberland was the city of nashville. nashville was the capital of tennessee, still is, with the control of the cumberland gone, nashville fell. like that. not a shot was fired. so, the absolute significance early of the fall of ft. donelson was this -- and when ft. donelson, henry, when they fell, tennessee was gone for the confederates. iron works, crops, any cotton grown in this area was eliminated from the confederacy for basically the rest of the war. with middle tennessee gone, also fell columbus, the big gree bralt gribraltor of the west. most of tennessee would be removed. now, here's where i'm going to get in trouble by some historians but i'm going to make this bold assertion here. i cannot name a more decisive campaig