remarkable job in harlem. are the ones that are going to get money from you? >> that's exactly right. and so often these dropout factories are in low-income communiti communities. what i think the country's starting to understand is poverty is not destiny. we've never had so many around the country. schools like the harlem village academy that virtually closed achievement gap of wealthiest suburbs. that has to become the norm, not the exception. those are the kind of projects we want to invest in. >> let me ask you this, mr. secretary, because it's going to take political courage for the president of the united states to do what you're recommending. he's going to have to do what they've done up in harlem. he's going to have to empower principles to hire teachers that work, that teach these children, that help them, like you say, erase the achievement gap with rich suburbs. but at the same time, the principals are going to have to be able to fire teachers that don't get the job done. will this president stand u

>> guest: i think that jeffrey canada is doing a great job of the harlem children's zone. harlem unfortunately has become ground zero for the children's movement and this isn't his fault although he does run to of the charter schools. there will be neighborhoods in harlem that have no public schools where kids will not be able to go to a school across the street because they have to apply to enter the charter school. the charter schools are a replacing of public education. and the lowest performing kids are not in those schools, and so it's really -- it's really a problem. i think what geoffrey canada is doing is the right approach. he's bringing together social services, health services, prenatal care, helping kids and adults at different points in their life span. that's a good thing. >> host: the last chapter of your book is titled lessons learned. what are the major lessons -- the major things you would want a reader to take away from the book? >> guest: i think the major thing is there is no way to turnaround of educational system easily or quickly and if anybody says

well, this week, i spoke to jeffrey canada, who is president and ceo of the harlem children zone, and political contributor, bill bennett about that, he's the author of the new book "a century turns." we talked about what really works in the classroom. >> welcome to both of you. jeffrey, let me -- let me start with you here. what you have created, let me just tell people, is, i think, many if not most believe is a model for how it can work. like the dream scenario. explain what you're doing and what you've achieved that the rest of america can't seem to. >> you know we've really decide that in some communities this problem is so devastating that you couldn't just start at middle school or high school, but you have to really start with families at birth when the problem begins and so we created something called baby college. we start with our families at birth, we stay with those children until we get them into our schools and then we also support kids into college and we're going to stay with kids until they graduate from college. so our authority is not just doing education, you're d

. >>> the harlem globetrotters became the harlem glowtrotters. look at this stuff, the ball glows in the dark. i love that move. that's going to leave a mark. the globetrotters beat the washington generals as usual, big shocker. >> all right, thank you. cute. >>> tomorrow is a big day in court for casey anthony, the mom charged with killing her daughter, caylee, wants a judge to say she's broke so she can have you, the taxpayer, pay her legal bills but someone already paid more than $110,000 to her lawyers. state officials don't know where that money came from. they opposed her request. hln will have complete coverage of tomorrow's hearing. >>> 20 minutes past the hour. happy st. patrick's day. maybe you're flying to new york to take part of the festivities. not a bad day. >> finally a good one. good morning to you. mid-60s is a high in new york city today, a lot of sunshine, big change from last week. where is the foul weather mainly across the deep southeast. here's georgia and south carolina, savannah right there, a couple of planes trying to

there will be neighborhoods in harlem that have no public schools. where kids will go to a public school across the street because they have to apply to enter the charter schools, the charter schools are replacing public education and the lowest performing kids are not in those schools and so it is a problem but with geoffrey canada is doing is the right approach. he's bringing together social services, health services, prenatal care, helping kids and adults and different points of the life span. it's a good thing. >> host: the last chapter of your book titled lessons learned, what are the major lessons, the major things you would want a reader to take away from the book? >> guest: the major thing is there is no way to turn on the educational system quickly or easily and if anybody says they found a miracle school it doesn't exist. you may find it a charismatic leader somewhere whenever they are doing you can't clone of them or reproduce what they are doing. a miracle school if you look more closely you'll find out they are scanning the kids and mayb

. >> now home during the day, this woman sees first hand how unemployment is affecting her harlem neighborhoodhought it would be more quiet. these are adults on the corner. a year ago they had jobs. >> reporter: it's the same story in african-american communities all over the nation, with the national unemployment rate standing at 9.7%, it's a staggering 15.8% for blacks. >> pulled me to the side and told me business is slow, we have to lay some people off. >> i've been looking for two years. >> reporter: in today's "state of black america report," national urban league president paints a grim picture. >> black america is suffering. the recession has had a very tough impact. >> reporter: in michigan, even the head of the job placement center is letting people go. >> i had to lay off a couple people and had to cut hours. >> reporter: though president obama this month signed a $17.6 billion jobs bill, the urban league says it's not enough. >> we need the kind of powerful response to the jobs crisis that we saw to the banking crisis. >> reporter: they're urging a more targeted approach, funding f

we tolerate here in washington in south central l.a., and in new york and harlem, and in california and california south central and here in washington in the southeast, drug czars that would be wiped out in 5 minu >>> did you get into the issue of who should prescribe antidepressants and other psychopharmacological medications for mood-altering drugs? should it be psychiatrists only or mds or -- what are you doing with regard to that? >> it should be mds but shay should be much better fland how to do it. and there should be more controls now. most drugs come out through mail ordered houses and we know when a doctor is over prescribing or prescribing too much for a patient. but there is a problem. you talked about oxycontin. oxycontin is incredibly effective pain killer. it's incredibly addictive and should only be used in the worst pain. but what happens is the family doctor has 40 people sitting in his room every day. gives it to somebody and they say, i feel fine. and he says god, i have a drug that works and then he puts it out there. and the other thing, parents have got to start t

he got his daughter out of harlem public schools. >> good for him. >> listen -- no, i want him to have is, i want the poorest parents in harlem and the south bronx to have the same opportunity as bill and the head of the new york teachers union and all these other people. but it's amazing. by the way, in this -- speaking of "the new york times," this story about bill perkins, you know, they never once mention in "the new york times" that perkins was the most strided ally of the teachers union? not one mention of the teachers union in that entire story. you cannot understand these education stories and this hit on arne duncan without understanding the teachers unions are the ones trying to destroy him. >> you've touched on something that's critical in understanding why public education isn't covered well in america. it is because f you look at the mast heads at the big papers, very few mast heads and big reporters have their children in public schools. >> of course they don't. >> we'll cover this tomorrow -- >> the editors of the "new york times," the editors of "the washington post," d

david paterson's father was part of the famous harlem gang of four which really was the center of black political power in new york , and david paterson took over what was his father a seat . how big a distraction is this for democrats to have these two such significant figures in such trouble? >> it is a huge distraction. in new york, we're virtually deadlocked. there's not gridlock here. there's deadlock. we don't have a dysfunctional government. we have a nonfunctioning government. it's sort of a combination of rod sterling meets lewis carol. it's the twilight expwron wonderland and you can't imagine what the next story is. >> ifill: well douglas muzzio, thank you so much for helping us out. >> thank you. next, rumblings of a different sort in texas, which held its primaries yesterday. the republican governor of texas, rick perry, rode a wave of anti-washington sentiment to an easy reelection primary win last night. perry bested four-term u.s. senator kay bailey hutchison, who announced she would quit the senate to challenge perry by 21 points. >> texas voters said no. they said no t

can you compare the difference between head start and programs like harlem children's zone here in manhattan have really made a difference in their community. >> head start has been something of a disappointment and it has real effects, but they tend not to last a long time. it seems to be partly that's a problem with scaling up. that we're good at sending out checks. we're not good at scaling up programs and partly that it wasn't as intensive. some of the program, they keep kid ins class a long time, have shorter summer breaks. >> and children's zone intervenes even when parents are expecting babies. you also talk about programs in the ninth grade and career academies. >> yeah, one of the clearer problems in past strategies is that we haven't tried hard enough to get people into the labor force. these career academies and various other strategy, they aim to really teach kids not only the skills to get them jobs, but also how to apply for a job. how to convey your eagerness, your enthusiasm, to a potential employer. >> i find this interesting when you have these cross disciplined, tech high

in mississippi votes against welfare because he thinks he's voting against a poor black woman in harlem're right about language, ben, in the "new york times," sunday magazine every sunday, words matter, and when you look at -- you've written a little bit about it. how are you seeing the words being played out? because they can move and motivate people. >> they sure can, and very often there's this kind of a flashpoint and certainly the health care reform debate has been that kind of flashpoint. with last summer from the town hall meetings and rising of the tea party movement we've seen an increasing polarization of the rhetoric, and that has led to some real rancor and we can see that when times are really tense like this, that words really do matter and especially when there are threats to public officials. that means that everyone has to be cognizant of the kind of tone they strike, and the kinds of metaphors and figures of speech that are being used may sometimes be inappropriate and sometimes can really be a cause of concern. >> here's a question. should lawmakers be held responsibl

. >> bill: in harlem, new york.here was a clothing store there and you were leading a protest and things got heated. >> absolutely wrong. that's what i'm talking about. i led a protest in september. in november that year, two and a half months later a guy killed himself and others and they go back to that speech. >> bill: that happened to me. >> which is totally different than somebody standing up in front -- >> bill: i understand the point i'm making is it happened to you and happened to me tiller the abortion doctor, they blamed me for his assassination, and while had you a distance of a couple of months, all did i was report the truth. we both got blamed unfairly, okay? for tragedies that happen. so what i'm saying to you is the media ran wild with this tea party thing last week. blaming the tea party. you saw what pitts says. pitts says basically that the tea party people are racist. that's unfair. >> yeah. but there is a difference in what pitts is saying and those that are talking about violence. i think what

. >> hello, lou thank you for coming to harlem. what we would like to ask is today what you think is the state ever judiciary today? the naacp and other civil-rights organizations are still fighting hard for all minorities on all fronts so reducing free stand today? >> part of my being a lawyer but that's how i determine if i had a senator i would live in washington d.c. but if i had a senator is how i would determine my presidential vote is based on judges because of these judges, article three federal judges are appointed for life, and i think the state of the judiciary right now is it's hard to move -- change from a right to left or even from left to right because everything stops in the senate. so it's a political issue of confirmation. i think that certain -- there's been a great deal of progress made in judiciary so much by the time thurgood marshall was nominated by johnson or even being backed by the time he is nominated by john f. kennedy to be a federal appellate judge in new york and the second circuit court of appeals,

. >> 6th grade teacher in -- >> spanish harlem, yeah. >> you're the educator. education spending across the country? why do you think they are vastly underreported? >> which one of us? >> you. >> me. simple idea. we are weak-spined. i wanted to take off my glasses just for the impact. we don't have the guts to hold teachers accountable. we don't have the guts to hold young people accountable. if you don't make a grade there is no repercussion. you know, in other countries they throw you out of school. >> here's the issue i have. i think the president is being particularly tough on teachers and university oh i don't knows, particularly in public schools. joe, let me ask you this. how much of it can we heap on the teachers? how much of it is not effective spending in schools? how much of it is kids not getting support at home they need? how much of it is the tens of millions of kids who go to school hungry and we know that affects your ability to get educated? how much can you say is the teachers and how much of it is around the student? >> public schools are har

thank you for coming to harlem. we appreciate it.at i would like to ask you, today, what do you think is the state of our judiciary today? the naacp and other civil rights organizations are still fighting hard for all minorities on all fronts. so, where do you think we stand today? >> part of my being a lawyer, but that's how i determined if i had a senator, i live in washington, d.c. so i don't. but if i had a senator is how i would determine how i vote. how i determine my presidential vote is based on judges. article 3 federal judges are appointed for life. and i think the state of the judiciary right now is it's hard to move -- it's hard to change it from right to left, or even from left to right because everything stops in the senate. so we're -- it's a political issue of confirmation. i think that certain -- there has been a great deal of progress made in judiciary in so much as by the time thurgood marshall was nominated by johnson. by the time he was nominated by john f kennedy to be a federal appellate judge in new york for t

there will be neighborhoods in harlem that is no public schools, where kids will not do to go to school across the street because they have deployed to enter the charter schools through the charter schools are really replacing public education and the lowest performing kids are not in most schools. and so, it's really a problem. what i do think which every candidate is doing is the right approach. he's been together social services, health services, prenatal care, helping kids and adults at different points in their life span. that's good. >> host: the last chapter of your book is titled lessons learned, what are the major lessons, the major things you would want to be there to take away from the book? >> guest: i think the major thing is there's no way to turn around the educational system easily or quickly if anyone says they found a miracle school, it doesn't exist. you may find charismatic leader somewhere whatever they're doing you can't own them, can't reduce what they're doing or if you look more closely you'll find out that they're skimming the kids and maybe they're getting won

she moved to new york to harlem in the 1920s where she organized tenants and poor people. in the 40 she was a branch organizer for the naacp traveling around the south helping establish new naacp branches and by the 50 she had taken a job as the director of the southern christian leadership conference. the best way to think about her criticism of king is just to take one second to think about the organization and just examine the title which i think probably most of us have never done, the southern christian leadership conference. every word in the organization's name bothered ella baker. it was southern. ella baker thought they movement should be national. although she recognize segregation was a southern institution she understood racism was a national problem and she thought it should he addressed nationally. christian. ella baker was a devoted churchgoer but she thought the question of segregation was a political one less than it was a religious one and that the organization should be thinking in terms of politics. leadership. she dreamed of a mass movement not a movem

host: anthony in harlem. caller: good morning to everybody, in america. three quick points. first of all, talking about "the new york post" owned by rupert murdoch. my second point, when it comes to governor paterson, i support the governor and all of his intentions. when it comes down to investigation of whether someone went to a yankee game and got tickets, that is about corruption playing against the sky. meanwhile rudy guiliani sat in the front row of yankee stadium every game. i never once read in the paper whether that was an issue with "the new york post." my second point, where is the real story in the new york legislature -- bruno has been convicted of corruption. where is the story? he was the head of the senate in new york for years. there was nothing said but the man is a convicted felon. where is that headline? guest: jow bruno jigingjoe bruno. host: former republican leader? guest: i certainly read stories in "the new york post" on corruption allegations against mr. bruno and conflict of interest and certainly plenty of stories about mayor giuliani and his trou

she had moved to new york to harlem in 1920s where she organized tenants and poor people. in the '40s she was a great organizer for the naacp traveling around south helping establish new naacp branches. by the 1950s, she had taken a job as the executive director of the southern christian leadership conference. and the best way to think about baker's criticism of king isn't just to take one second to think about the organization he formed and just examine the title which i think probably what most of us have never done, the southern christian leadership conference. every word in the organization's name bothers ella baker. it was other. alum baker thought the movement should be national. she didn't think the problem, although she recognizes segregation was a southern institution commissioners of the races with a national problem and she thought should be addressed nationally. >> christian. À la baker was a devoted churchgoer but she thought the question of segregation was in that organization should should be thinking in terms of politics. leadership she dreamed of a mass mo

what had happened in central harlem was failure became the norm. the schools were lousy...he healthcare was lousy... gangs we u prevalent. violence was all over. families were falling apart. you can't raise children in a community like that. people had been talking about things, but not doing anything. hi, mr. canada... how are you? i'm doing great, how 'bout you? right here on 119th street. if we could fix this block, then we could fix the next block, then we could fix the next block... we promised parents, if your child stays with us, i guarantee you that child is going to graduate from college. failure is simply not an option. the sixty...the seventy... the eighty... the ninety-seven blocks which ends up being 10,000 children. we start with children from birth, and stay with those children until they graduate. if you really want to have an impact that is large, you will get there going one step at a time. there is no act that is too small to make a difference. no matter what you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, vol

. ♪ what had happened in central harlem was failure became the norm. the schools were lousy...ealthcare was lousy... gangs were prevalent. violence was all over. families were falling apart. you can't raise children in a community like that. people had been talking about things, but not doing anything. hi, mr. canada... how are you? i'm doing great, how 'bout you? right here on 119th street. if we could fix this block, then we could fix the next block, then we could fix the next block... we promised parents, if your child stays with us, i guarantee you that child is going to graduate from college. failure is simply not an option. the sixty...the seventy... the eighty... the ninety-seven blocks which ends up being 10,000 children. we start with children from birth, and stay with those children until they graduate. if you really want to have an impact that is large, you will get there going one step at a time. there is no act that is too small to make a difference. no matter what you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunte

that's one of the things that's been so appeal to go me about the harlem children's zone. those aren't someone else's children. every child there is our child. and everybody is working behind. so what we want to get out of is the finger-pointing and blame game and get entire communities rallying behind children. and obviously, middle schools are a huge piece of that pipeline. >> my second question to you is the esaea blueprint calls for identifying and developing for effective teachers and leaders. how will you encourage and support states and districts in recruiting bilingual teachers and principals to better meet the needs of english language learners? >> we want to put unprecedented resources behind better teacher recruitment, including bilingual teachers and principals. i said repeatedly, i think our department has underinvested in principal leadership, and that's huge and we're asking for a five-fold increase there. of and as we have an increasingly student diverse population, i want the adults in front of those students to reflect the diversity of our country. and i

host: mario from harlem in new york. independent line with governor dean. good morning.aller: good morning. governors, you're a good guy. i'm an independent. i used to be a democrat but they broke my heart too many times so i had to move on. recently, with the i'm a moderate and i'm an arch conservative. so i know - i'm used to people like if they disagree with you, you gets strogh sized. my question to you is like this cultural war. what's going to happen like in next 3-5 years if we get past this point in the culture, is it going to take some very bad violence like assassinations or people that go to a picnic table and say hey let's put an end to this? it's like what's going to happen? how do you see change? guest: i see it change. young people under 35 are totally different than air generation. they really do want to work together. we did a lot of work among evangelical christians and found none evangelical issues are top priorities for poverty, darfur and so on. they believe gay rights are an automatic civil rights issue for everybody but the under 35 which is essent

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is for all of the boys and girls at home, charlie rangel, an enormously popular congressman from harlem he in charge of the committee that writes the tax codes. and guess what? you pay your taxes, but charlie rangel doesn't pay the same chair of taxes th share of taxes that you pay. the problem for nancy pelosi is that everyone knows this. people instinctively know this. that whatever is put on the table, nothing gets done at the end of the day. >> why is she defending charlie rangel? a guy that doesn't pay the taxes the way he should, a guy that not only violates ethical standards in the house of representatives, but also doesn't report hundreds of thousands of dollars in income? >> taking care of their own. the old boy/old girl network. it's hard to turn out someone that you have worked with for decades. the threat to the country. i don't buy that. so he didn't get drunk when he had his finger on the nuclear button. that's fine. you can still go out and rob a bank, that's not a threat to the country, and you still shouldn't have your job. i say throw him out. >> charlie rangel, chair

. >> and he started at the harlem voice choir. >> how much does he make a year?i don't talk about that. i wouldn't ask you how much you make. >> i know, but he deserves -- >> he is a real well paid ringmaster. >> thank you. i wish we had more time, but we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >>> coming up, more of this morning's top stories. plus, he ran goldman sachs, served as a u.s. senator and then took the helm of the state of new jersey. so what is next for jon corzine? two new jobs, chairman and ceo of mf global holding. he's going to join us on "squawk" right after this. >>> the markets' next move. >> flip. can you dig it? >> government data and ongoing talks to help greece will keep traders busy this morning. guest host david bianco will tell us why financials may be the group that will keep the market rally going. >>> from the public eye to the private sector, an exclusive interview with former new jersey governor jon corzine who is back in financial circles with a brand-new job. >>> the new frontier of business. how management shou

this is a huge investment, $200 million to replicate the harlem children's zone to create not just schoolsire communities around schools to make sure students have a chance to be successful. so we want to put unprecedented resources behind the effort to give students a chance to think about algebra, to think about reality and going to college. if you're not hitting those emotional and physical needs first, we're kidding ourselves. and so guess, to answer question question were going to put a huge amount of resources, not thereatest thing to giveehind them a chance to be successful academically. >> okay, thank you. >> gentlewomen yield back her time. ms. biggert. >> thank you, mr. chairman. it's so great to see you back so soon, mr. secretary. on page 16, you've got a teacher and leader innovation fund and i'm not sure how that all said and tiered as this mean that the blueprint requires a statewide definition of effective teachers and principals that space didn't quite a large part on student academic growth and i know that we both agree that the student achievement measure must be approve

what had happened in central harlem was failure became the norm. the schools were lousy... violence was all over. families were falling apart. you can't raise children in a community like that. people had been talking about things, but not doing anything. hi, mr. canada... how are you? i'm doing great, how 'bout you? right here on 119th street. if we could fix this block, then we could fix the next block, then we could fix the next block... we promised parents, if your child stays with us, i guarantee you that child is going to graduate from college. failure is simply not an option. the sixty...the seventy... the eighty... the ninety-seven blocks which ends up being 10,000 children. we start with children from birth, and stay with those children until they graduate. if you really want to have an impact that is large, you will get there going one step at a time. there is no act that is too small to make a difference. no matter what you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, volunteer or donate at takepart.com. so, at nationa

what had happened in central harlem was failure became the norm. the schools were lousy...he healthcare was lousy... gangs we u prevalent. violence was all over. families were falling apart. you can't raise children in a community like that. people had been talking about things, but not doing anything. hi, mr. canada... how are you? i'm doing great, how 'bout you? right here on 119th street. if we could fix this block, then we could fix the next block, then we could fix the next block... we promised parents, if your child stays with us, i guarantee you that child is going to graduate from college. failure is simply not an option. the sixty...the seventy... the eighty... the ninety-seven blocks which ends up being 10,000 children. we start with children from birth, and stay with those children until they graduate. if you really want to have an impact that is large, you will get there going one step at a time. there is no act that is too small to make a difference. no matter what you want to do, members project from american express can help you take the first step. vote, vol