included an additional handouts that hopefully provide and more description on the school improvement grantham and detailed some of those categories on where initial investments are going. >> let me say how enjoyable it was to pick up a favor and see about how this san francisco school district is doing so much better in terms of a drop out if, and i wonder if you can talk about that and the strategy. >> as i mentioned earlier, the director and her attendance clerk coaches school's daily. they meet with the attendants clerks, and we have found so much of what is not happening is the intensive focus on insuring the process was done with fidelity and in a timely manner, and we found that was not happening. she also found some students were not coming to school, and somehow they have fallen through as far as people making false or home visits. this is k-12. they have not focused on kindergarten as much, but they find that is the

i think the investment manager, jerry grantham was right when he said growth depends on real factors. the quantity and quality of education, work ethic, population profile, the quality and quantity of the existing plant and equipment, business organization, the quality of public leadership, and the quality, not quantity, of existing regulations and the degree of enforcement. should beligence invested in real lasting growth will determine whether we made our goal of emerging from the recession as a stronger recession -- as a stronger country. there's another reason why a margin to measures are not enough. the state of our middle-class -- even if our unemployment rate were instantaneously sent back to the 2007 levels, we would still be a country with a declining middle class. we would have levels of inequality we have not seen in nearly a century. that is an issue. about which all of us should be concerned. the middle class was struggling long before the crash hit. since 1980, in actual dollars, the average income of the bottom 90% of americans has not budged. over the same period, the