being closer to caring adults at school than the student population and increase their attendance or gpa after being matched and who are our mentors? take a look at the last page of the newsletter. i am sure you will recognize many of the names. this small army of teachers, professionals, social workers, nurses, wellness staff and a broad spectrum of community members have been dedicated thousands of hours every month for a student to maximize their potential and they're the ones that observe your recognition and with they am glad to introduce holy many and her mentee laura gill, an eighth grader in middle school. [applause] >> hi. i am holly. this is lolo so we're just here tonight to share about our experience together. i have been working with her since 2011. we were matched up then for "our sassy dispositions". that's what they told us anyway so we started working together i have seen a lot of improvement in lolo just across the board. she had a lot of issues the first year with conflicts with teachers and students that resulted in a lot of suspensions and as a result affected her at

saw last year and this year our students significantly out perform the district for attendance and gpa and i know there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle but i believe the mentoring part is critical. our tenth graders are always checking in with us. last semester many of my students are 2.0 and well on track for graduation and one of the significant programs we offer and we're tracking it to look at the data and in addition we have the one-on-one mentoring and i would be remiss if i shouldn't shout out to the resources folks and being a mentor increasing principal haze given me an incredible lens how to support the students at a higher level. thank you so much. [applause] >> i'm kim coats, director school of health programs and i wanted to close by thanking the superintendent and all of the board commissioners for recognizing national mentoring month. i want to thank kevin and lori varace and others for their amazing leadership. thank you to the people that came tonight and everyone that came to specifically support peer resources and mentoring for success. we need mentors so talk to a

. >> at least a 2.5 gpa to go and a requirement that each student do 10 hours of community service. and when the cash was counted, we raised about $30,000, and squeezing my sis, i'm so excited. >> we have been invited to a photo shoot with barbara lee, just like an eye conto me. >> the center sees this strip -- icon to me. >> see sees this as a ripple effect to her students. >> it doesn't matter you're from oakland, you're a citizen of the world, and you can pick a place and be seen. >> an amazing teacher and an amazing group of kids, absolutely loved hanging out with them this inauguration weekend. 1 of the things most watched aside from all the politics, is also faction, and allize eyes eyes -- fashion. jason wu designed her beautiful 1 armed white dress we saw. we also saw her in the parade in a navy ks silk jacket. she also had a necklace by kathy watterman and probably the most talked about was her hair. they are calling this hair style the carly, kind of a choppy cut with -- banges. >> let me ask you. you're there and you're watching this unfold and it's the inauguration of a

i went to high school and i graduated with a 1.7 gpa. we ran the school, literally. i went to kennedy high school in richmond. it is surrounded by three or four different components. constant shootings -- three or four different hoods. we had to have our varsity football games during school hours. we cannot have it at 7:00 because of the potential danger. there was constant substitute teachers, a lot of bucks. -- lack of books. this is what they are teaching us. not saying that it is a total reason for why it and others turn out the way that we turned out, but it plays a part. just like i have to be held accountable for the choices i make, and so does a society. >> i keep hearing the term gang. in the black community in the bay area, it is a community, it is not a gang. you can move up in their ranks as if you are working for apple or ibm. you can move from a regular employee to ceo. in the black community, it is not like this. it is not structured like that. there is no one at sagging or telling you how to operate. there is a term in the black community called a one

he's maintained a 3.7 gpa and is not challenged. he has almost no homework and no projects. the gate program seems to be unorganized and communication with the teachers has resulted in little change. in order to reach martin luther king, kesean must take two buses results in a one-hour commute each way. we live five blocks from (inaudible) middle school. he was registered this december with abstos, we were understood that these schools were banned. his father was told that he would have no information about waiting list until march 2013, really, the list does not all right exist? what are the options for a solid student in this system? how can we get a good education for kesean? how can we plan alternative for what is not providing him with a challenged or adequate education? any places for me to pursue this? >> we have you get with the chief of staff, and have the middle schools to follow up with you. >> to whom do i give this? thank you. >> good evening ladies and gentlemen of the board of education. i hope you remember me from last time. two minutes was not enough. i am b

. >> rose: and went back to owner land. >> and check it out and promptly dropped by gpa by more points than i would like to share here. >> rose: when did you decide this is what i want to do? i want to act, i want to tell stories? >> i always -- i always loved -- i was always very h enamored of acting but didn't think it was a job i would be given. >> if that makes sense. >> rose: because? >> because even as a young girl i didn't think i would cast as the edge knew and not .. cast as the obese nanny and there were not -- it is funny and sounds like insane to say this about school plays but there weren't parts and i remember preparing so hard for an audition for alice in wonderland and being cast as a bouncing ball. >> rose: so once you had the time, though, to create things, did you immediately say there has to be a place for me? i will create a place maybe because i still want to act? >> well, you know, it is funny when i started writing films and i was making them on a very low-budget i thought the character is based on all of -- i will play until really good. >> rose: a real actor.

kaepernick was big into math when he was in high school and graduated with a 4.1 gpa. now his former teachers are singing his praises while there are counting up his touchdowns too. >> excelled in the classroom, worked very hard, always wanted to be the best. >>> the 9ers open up even with the falcons a 4-point road favorite against them on sun. two veteran players should add up to a pretty good game in the nfc championship, as well. ravens linebacker ray lewis perhaps his last game taking on pats quarterback and bay area native tom brady. catch the game here on cbs 5 at 3:30 on sunday. and one of those teams will be moving on to the super bowl just over two weeks away. cbs 5 is your place for the super bowl on february 3rd. >>> lady gaga made wearing meat fashionable although it didn't catch on. some designers in china are hoping chocolate would be a better sell. check it out. yes, those fashion models are wearing the latest chocolate designs by chocolate fanatics. okay. insert word here. the chocolate fashion show is only the opening act of the world chocolate wonder

im paragraph attendance by over 40 percent and gpa up nearly 40 percent. we know it works. about 1,000 san francisco students have expressed interest in having a mentor. anyone i wanted can attend a mentor recruitment drive scheduled for this thursday evening at marcus book store on fill more street. >>> new study says almost half of working college graduates hold jobs for which they are over qualified. researchers say the situation could last for another decade, too. part of the blame is due to the glut of college applicant. even so research shows that college graduates earn twice as much as those with only a high school education. >>> now to google and the company cafeteria. turns out they are as optimize as the company search engine. here's our news anchor. >> lunch time at the office in manhattan at google. the cafeteria is hyper analyzed and reengineered. which means loaded with nudge, nudge people to healthy choices. >> come right in the entrance over here what is nice you see the salad bar first. starving like me you go for the first thing you see. exactly. >>reporte

i'm getting a 3.0 gpa.ust happy. >> reporter: coach kitna changed more than just miller's outlook. he's changed his future. >> i probably wasn't going to get it together. and now i have a chance at graduating. >> you can't come here and be fake. they smell it. they smell it as soon as you come walking in the building if you are fake. and i just try to be as authentic and real with them as i can day in and day out. >> the principal is now become familiar with something called the kitna effect. an ability to reach those others have not. >> when i went in to watch him teach i saw kids doing math that i have seen sitting in other classrooms and never lift a pencil. >> something decreases. okay. here's-- it starts here t ends here. >> it feels really good. i have to say, it feels really good. it's a start. >> ernesto, how are you doing. >> reporter: but jon kitna is generating more than just good feelings. >> read these from the variables k? his algebra class is the second highest scoring period in the entire sc

throughout high school, active in sports and basically having a be average attitude and i had a great gpand i have decided not to -- you know, i was a straight a student, and what was all that work for if i wasn't -- i couldn't be happy? so i believe i had a mentor, i think i look like a kid that was going to be fine. and they were right, essentially. i would've gone on to finish college and perhaps gone to an ivy league type school. but i threw that away when i gave up on my struggles. but getting back to what i was doing with young people, i will tell you what really got me to where i am today. the thing that we all have in common is that unbeknownst to ourselves, we listened and nurtured. we nurtured the ability to be ability to listen to the little voice. it's knowing when to move and when to fall back. even though it looks as though you may not make it. because that voice will never fail you. this is the thing that i see. those who have success have trained and nurtured in our very strong within their inner voice. that is something. c-span: are there others that you know of that had

at least a 2.5 gpa to go. no ds or fs.each student did 10 hours of community service. >> i am really proud of all of them. they all worked to get there. if they kept their grades up. >> when the cash was counted. >> i think reraised about not quite but close to $30,000. >> every day i am squeezing my face i am so excited >> students arrived to washington and meet with their congresswoman. >> we have been invited to a personal interview and photo shoot with barbara lee. she is like an icon to me >> ms. center sees this trip having a ripple effect on her students' future. >> doesn't matter these kids are from oakland. you are a citizen of the world and you can take a place in the world. >> reporter: to cap all of that off, students able to come and see barack obama sworn in. you have to think that was the highlight of their trip. speaking of the president, allen, he and the first lady just finished their dance here to jennifer hudson singing. it was really an incredible sight to see. the crowd here going wild for that. >> we

a chance with his cover letter that reads "the truest is i have no special skills the near-perfect gpal fetch coffee but i will not say how i fit in. >> i am suspicious. it is clever. remember pat robertson said god will call me home. i said that in an interview. [laughter] it could work but why would he in turn at a bank? just because you are a hard worker you have to want to be there. melissa: he had good credentials but cleverly tried to get their attention. he knows his audience. >> at know if anybody will be impressed. he shows i will be honest. i have worked hard but if you cannot sell yourself with the resonate, are not willing to i dunno if i will fire you. melissa: that is not courting clients. >> this is why you need to consider me. melissa: subway is notorious for giving you a bang for the box with the footlong sub it is actually 11 inches. false advertising? some say it shrinks once it is cooked. we are measuring it here. adam? do the honors

they found there is not giving their children aid had an average gpa of 3.15. $16,000 in aid, the tvahe findings don't despair to stop supporting their is financially, but they should layout standards and expectations. >> more money is more problems that is what notorious b i g use to set is that right. >> the kron 4 news continues to look at our mount tam cam this morning. >> developing right now more than 150,000 your city students are finding alternative ways to get to and from school today. >> more than 8000 school bus drivers are on strike over job protection. >> the strike started about three hours ago. most of the city's roughly 1.1 million public-school students take public transportation or walk to school. kantor making plans to use subways and carpels this morning. >> off the widow of the victim killed in last year's colorado will be shooting is suing the accused gunman psychiatrist and the university where she works. >> the civil lawsuit alleges that the psychiatrist of the vice police to arrest james holmes weeks before the the a rampage. the woman who filed the lawsuit wa

great, he has got a near-perfect gpa but he also says i don't have any special skills, i don't have any >> that's not true, some who have tremendous skills in college who are really out there and innovative. >> real quickly. >> he can't even spell "crap" correctly. i would definitely hot fire him. >> two ps. >> maybe it was for emphasis. >> a. >> a win. it's called wrong. spell it right. >> ladies, gentleman, thank you very much. suze will be back to tackle your money problems. >>> up next though we have oscar winner catherine zeta-jones live in our studio and we will talk to her, after this. faster or slower?etter? [ all kids ] faster! oscar winner catherine zeta-jones live in our studio and we will talk to her, after this. okay. a spaceship. a spaceship. and what's slow? my grandma's slow. would you like it better if she was fast? i bet she would like it if she was fast. hm, maybe give her some turbo boosters. tape a cheetah to her back. tape a cheetah to her back? seems like you have thought about this before. [ male announcer ] it's not complicated. faster is better. and the iphone

>> he's got a pretty good gpa. >> i don't think so. >> you think he was taking, like, astronomy? >> mike, he almost pulled off one of the greatest hoaxes ever. let's give him a little credit. you. >> think he was in on it from the beginning, then? >> i tend so. some of the details really don't make sense. and really, the media deserves all the blame here. i can't imagine being an editor at a newspaper or a magazine, seeing this story of this gorgeous stanford girl that this great football player met and not dispatching a reporter immediately to go meet her and put her on camera. there was just total negligence all the way around. >> no one knew about her until -- i mean, really no one knew about her until after, oh, she's dead. she died of leukemia. that's when it became a big story. >> sure. but in this day and age, it is so easy, information is at our fingertips. it is so easy to check and recheck some of this information. >> no record of her at stanford. there's a lot of things you would have thought someone would have picked up on. what was your theory? you never got to your

the truth is, i have no unbelievably special skills or but i have a near perfect gpa and will work hardor you. some wall street bigwigs praised this letter and it's the extraordinary things that land you a job and a lot of companies are trying to hire the young mr. ross. >>> all day long here

truth is i have no unbelievably special skills or genius eccentricities but i do have a near perfect gpasome people said it was hysterical, some say this kid is raisy. >> he's not answering e-mails either. this is viral on wall street, half the people in the e-mail chain half of the people are praising him saying this kid's got a lot of nerve let's call him, half of them are saying wow, this is bold. >> he's telling the truth,'s h not inflating things. >> which is why they think it's fake. >> i think you're right, this goes to prove that authenticity and telling the truth will stand out, serve you well. >> but maybe it's fake. >> it's not only because we've read the absurd letters but participated in inflating our own resumes. >> speak for yourself. >> please, everyone will say how can you make this sound the most applicable. my leadership on the squash team in high school -- >> he says he'll fetch coffee, shine shoes, pick up laundry, work for next to nothing. in all honesty i want to be around professionals in the industry and gain as much knowledge as i can. >> he'll get a job. >> i t

barrett jones a 4.0 gpa, campbell award, academic heisman basically. you played injured.ad a foot injury, now you have to go into surgery, right? how is that looking for you? how are you feeling about that? >> well, never too excited about surgery but you know it's just part of the game and i had an option to have it before but certainly i was not going to miss this game and you know, there's no way you could have maybe missed this being my last game as a senior, so you know it was a great experience and really a great way to go out. it's not often you win your last game as a championship game so that's just a pretty cool way to go out on top and finish out my career. >> bleacher report headline, eddie, i don't know if you saw it, i bet you did, eddie lacy, first round nfl draft pick or 2013 heisman trophy winner, question mark. how do you feel about that? >> there's the big smile. >> they both sound great, man, but i haven't made my decision yet. i don't know what i'm going to do. i still have my parents to talk to and we still have to meet with coach sabin. no matter wh

the truth is, i have no unbelievably special skills or but i have a near perfect gpa and will work hard for you. some wall street bigwigs praised this letter and it's the extraordinary things that land you a job and a lot of companies are trying to hire the young mr. ross. >>> all day long here we've been focusing on the psychology of why we cheat and not entirely unrelated to cheating you have former governor mark sanford sitting down with piers morgan tonight. he's just announced he's running for congress. don't miss it tonight. that's it for me. be back here at the same time tomorrow. i'm brooke baldwin. let's go to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> breaking news the fate of american captives in an engineer yeah clouded in chaos. an operation to free the foreign hostages has reportedly ended amid word that some were forced to wear explosive vests. >>> a star football player says he's the victim of a sick joke but some taken in by the joke say manti te'o has some explaining to do about his dead girlfriend who never existed. >>> and president obama will take the oath of office o

but you expect me to hold up a 3.0 for a 4.0 gpa on my own, trying to work, be a mom, and a student at the same time. but i am a statistic. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. say a quick word. tell me more about this program. >> it is to break this silence. there is so much in the national rhetoric, so much shame and stereotypes about people who are poor. witnesses to hunger is about making sure women who are strong have an opportunity to speak back and participate. tammy is a great example. there are many people among us and all across the country who are witnesses to hunger. they need to speak up to break the shame. there is courage. thank you. they are amazing. >> that person is my mother. she is here tonight. there are two sponsors that made this possible tonight. there are a lot of resources to make this possible. thank you, c-span, for carrying this conversation around the world. [applause] i also want you to thank the foundation for being our title sponsor tonight. [applause] she is organizing young people to express themselves and raise their own voices about the con

have no unbelievably special skills or genius he can sentickities, with you i do have a near perfect gpahat letter go viral, we can report this morning that he landed the intern internship he applied for. the ceo and founder of the u business and joins us now. what do you make of this kid who said in the letter, i'm from just an average university. your firm won't even look at guys like me, but he did it and he did it! >> he did it and he did it. exactly, steve. hats off to him. he knew his audience. wall street is known for appreciating bravado to a certain extent. the irony is that his bravado is in his humility. the quote that you read shows that he wasn't trying to inflate his expectations, which is very much in stark contrast to the geny millenials that we see. >> steve: you as a ceo probable lea get tons of cover letters and resumes. after a while, your eyes glaze over because they all look the same and all say the same stuff. this guy was thinking outside the box. he went big! he said look, i'm not going to feed you a line of bs, take it or leave it. >> absolutely. it happened to

but you expect me to hold up a 3.0 for a 4.0 gpa on my own, trying to work, be a mom, and a student at the same time. but i am a statistic. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. say a quick word. tell me more about this program. >> it is to break this silence. there is so much in the national rhetoric, so much shame and stereotypes about people who are poor. witnesses to hunger is about making sure women who are strong have an opportunity to speak back and participate. tammy is a great example. there are many people among us and all across the country who are witnesses to hunger. they need to speak up to break the shame. there is courage. thank you. they are amazing. >> that person is my mother. she is here tonight. there are two sponsors that made this possible tonight. there are a lot of resources to make this possible. thank you, c-span, for carrying this conversation around the world. i also want you to thank the foundation for being our title sponsor tonight. [applause] marguerite casey foundation. she is organizing young people to express themselves and raise their own vo