harlem during those years was a sort of political hothouse. ottley was quickly sucked into the rough-and-tumble of the political life better. he was an active participant in the amsterdam news strike in 1935. he became very much engaged in labor issues in the 1930s. he covered the controversies surrounding the italian invasion of ethiopia. he participated in the congress. like so many americans that were taken ottley was radicalized but not a radical. he was asked to characterize his politics recently. and he reminds me of jackie robinson. he was a republican in the 50s. he did not confide the utopianism of left-wing politics. at the same time, circumstances dictated that he would be in contact with many of the major political figures and, of course, the broader circumstances the broader circumstances going on in his community. this is when he was at his most politically engaged. his politics were shaped by the popular front. this brought coalitional politics that united civil rights activists and organized labor and social uplift groups and t

i want to stay in harlem if i'm going to do this whole harlem thing? >> absolutely. close to the apollo theater and silvia's is the incredible loft. you can stay there for $189 a night and great rooms with floor to ceiling windows and bliss amenities. just because you're staying in harlem doesn't mean you're not staying in style. >> you may think you know brooklyn, but you don't. there are hot areas, particularly williamsburg, not virginia, but new york. >> absolutely. williamsburg and brooklyn, i live in a different neighborhood, but last night, i was in williamsburg because it's a hotbed of coolness. >> take me to this boutique, this chocolate boutique. that alone will take me to brooklyn. >> so mast brothers chocolate, this is where you have to go. what is great about mast brothers, the passion project of two young brothers. they're obsessed with single origin chocolates. they go around the world looking for the best cocoa and produce these things by hand. not only do they produce them by hand but they wrap them individually in this beautiful paper. you can go to

and all the harlems of america? >> thank you. [applause] yes, sir. >> [inaudible] my name is carol. thank you. your words are important. one question is, how do we cultivate an interest in history and her story? and i ask that because i teach [inaudible] my friem if i don't stand over a student and give a lot of quizzes they won't finish reading it [inaudible] women's voices too. same thing. my question is how do we cultivate an interest in our young people reading our stories, and personally writing a series of plays on the president's who own slaves. how do i -- thank you. >> thank you. >> this is last question. so i want everybody to just answer one minute. thank you. >> you are cultivating an interest. there's no immediate results. there's no immediate payoff. erin in this -- everyone in this room is more than likely because they were here were exposed to the same literature, to the same historical figures. the same set of ideas. i was. and yet i was heading to wall street about twenty years ago. so you have to

i don't live in harlem.[cheers and applause] >> what we do all week long every week with our students and faculty and staff is working in our communities all the time. we mentor young men and build collegiate 100 on campus for the purpose of organizing parts of our efforts. all of our fraternities and sororities do this work. we have partnered with a number of schools and school systems and community agencies and feed the hungry and do all that kind of work and we are trying to build community as we go. i think how i want to end this today and i have to end this today is first to say thank you to our panelists. i am very pleased -- [applause] >> so we did gather the right scholars in this room today and let me say to you as the president's of the university, one of the great joys of the work is the opportunity to gather with scholars like these that have these conversations and cause us all to take action based on what we have come to know and do the same. i thank you for attending and hope this has been ben

i'm just sad that you guys have a harlem. we don't have a harlem. we have south central. it sucks.ou guys have apollo theater and bill clinton's office and the globe trotters. >> bill: it's not a ghetto anymore. harlem has upgraded considerably. >> i know. you should come down to it south central you get shot by south koreans. >> i have been down there. i know what the situation is. >> you would blend right in. >> bill: low rises not high rises and this and that. >> it's your core audience i don't want to offend them. >> bill: you, adam carolla you didn't say anything wrong with the stern thing. you probably would have done it yourself, right? >> sure. why not. you pick a group and have fun with them. you mock them. we have a black president, so that's why they are focusing on african-americans. >> okay. so you and jon stewart hanging out at the emmys which stewart won. did he win for best hair or what did he win for? >> well, we were just back stage in kimmel's dressing room and doing coke and swapping wives and doing the stuff we do. >> bill: didn't have to go to the emmys to do

i got harlem. i took care of harlem.care of me. >> bill: he made millions and evaded authorities by hiding the drugs in what? stuffed animals, vcr's, car tire s, coffins. cards up. coffins. now, do you know the catches of whom? >> the catches of whom -- coffins of whom? men and women? >> american soldiers. >> that's right. >> bill: that's right. killed american military people in vietnam. that's how heinous this guy was. >> he was heinous. do i get half credit for that? >> bill: no. question number 5, uma pemmaraju breaks on top. mob boss james whitey bulger terrorized boston for years. >> he shot people, strangled people, run them over with cars. >> you said also he liked killing. >> yeah. >> explain that to me. >> after he would kill somebody, he'd like a stress relief. he'd be nice and calm for a couple of weeks afterward. >> bill: bulger was arrested in june of last year after 16 years on the run. where was the 81-year-old mob boss finally captured? miami, colorado, california, austin, texas? where was he captured? c

a kid is sitting in an auditorium in central harlem. half of the girls get a ticket to go to a high-quality school. the other half go to whatever school they are going to go to. seven years later, the ones who did not go to that school are five times more likely to be pregnant. for the boy, those who did not go to that school are four times more likely to be incarcerated. so this is not just about test scores. i totally agree with the folks who say high test scores for kids who are in danger or likely to be imprisoned, bunch of kids who know -- but what i'm interested in are these types of long-term outcomes. so in the end, these three pieces of evidence give me incredible optimism and a concrete proposal for how i think we can move forward. it's not perfect. we need a lot of work on reading and karen will tell you we think we are in the 40-yard line with 50 yards ago but we have these three pieces of evidence. one, we have a sense of what makes some schools affected than others not. second, we know if you take these things, there is no

the founder of harlem academy, harlem village academy.blic schools leer in new york city. >> kenny told a story for passion and better education and she joins us this morning. her book called "born to rise." you say education starts with teacher, rock star good teachers in chicago you know they're having a huge problem wib a teachers' strike. can we get your thoughts on that before we talk about your book? >> sure. i think everybody understands that the strike over there is bad for children. what i don't hear anybody talking about is it's actually bad for teachers. the teachers union there, they are not serving the interests of the majority of good teachers. they're trying to protect the bottom, whether it's 10% or 20%, and what they're doing is really hurting the majority of teachers who want to be treated as professionals. and the essence of being treated as a professional is being given freedom and held accountable, and so they're undermining, i think, the best interests of teachers as well as children. having said that, the idea of ev

. >> not about young kids but basics for them at one of the schools from harlem. who do we have, marquis and jalen. come over and show them what we're going to do. >> keep those feet moving. they are just going to toss the ball. as long as they keep their feet moving. >> double ball. >> dodgeball. >> it's soft. >> bob, a lot of people have the misconception, they think tennis is an elite support, something expensive, unaffordable. how do you allow kids to get out there and avoid the cost and be able to do something after school like this? >> what's really great about this whole tennis system now, you can buy a tennis racket for less than $25. it is a lot more affordable. and also there's these free tennis for play around the country, tennis-free play. you don't have to pay for anything. >> all across the country you can look up places to get free tennis days to just try it, see if you even enjoy it. >> bottom line making it affordable and having an outlet for families to get together on the weekends and play around and get exercise. >> this is how they get started

in harlem park, residents have become accostumed to the frequent sounds of sirens.s afternoon, the neighborhood's one ladder truck had little time to waste. (18:52) "and you've already seen they've been out at least twice and they'll probably be out in a few minutes." but in three weeks, truck ten....will be gone for good...... its one of three fire units the city will close because of cuts to the city's budget. (6:03) "somebody's safety is going to be a big issue...." but saving the firrhouses is back on the table....because revenue from the city's speed cameras has far exceeded the city's projections. those cameras produced more than 19-million dolllrs for the city last year. thats more than four-million more than the mayor ad expected. p now, there's a four million dollar winddall and a tug of war over how to spend it.... (25:53) (motorist) "fixing the roads, if you're going to give us speeding tickets while driving on them why not fix em...." (22:58) "well it came from the traffic so they should invest in traffic. but not in more cameras....." the mayor wants to

oficiales, mÁs del 85 de los detenidos proceden de barrios que son minorÍas en el bronx o'hare l harlemculas se han multiplicado. >>> habÍr han intentado alredede 35% en comparaciÓn con meses anteriores. >>> un millÓn 700 mil jovenes califican para el programa de acciÓn diferida tienen que presentar documentos validos que prueben que han vid en estados unidos entre las edad kz especÍfica esa medida. y mucho se habla de la cifra de muertos que cobra la lucha del narcotrÁfico en mÉxico. edgar muÑoz hablÓ con un que militar sobre la cuento grerr y& nos dice lo que piensa. >>> las bajas en el gobierno de felipe calderÓn son las mÁs grandes que se tiene re jis otro en varias dÉcadas. 187 soldado han muerto de des que se declaÓo la guerra al narcotrÁfico 31 militares fueron secuestrados y aparecieron muertos. hay otros vivos retirados por inutilidad. y el ejÉrcito no se acuerda de ellos. >>> fulanito no sabemos nada de Él. y pues, me tocÓ ver, que las pfamilias llegaban a la guardiaa preguntar por ellos. pero nadie sabÍa decirles que pasÓ con ellos. >>> jorge es militar retirado luego de 4 in

he got to pay whatever he did. >> reporter: police say the video was taken from an elevator in a harlemlding but that freeman actually lives here in the bronx on east 188th street. >> nice. be nice. >> reporter: neighbors didn't know or recognize him but almost all were visibly moved by the video. many couldn't understand how one person could be so cruel to another living being. >> that was uncalled for right there. that's really -- something needs to be done about it. >> reporter: police say one day after they released this video, a relative of freeman's took hazel and dropped her off at animal care and control where she was examined and taken care of. some who have seen the video have harsh words for freeman. >> if you could do this to an animal, you could do it to a human being and worse out there. >> today the judge set bail at $3,500 for the suspect. >>> right now at 6:00, we've learned that a teenager murdered on his way to school had a history of being bullied. >>> rage erupts in cairo. protesters scale the walls of the embassy. >>> also ahead at 6:00, a d.c. council member says

justifican mÁs del 85% de los detenidos proceden de barrios en donde viven las minorÍas como el bronx y harlem la violencia y lo que decimos que hay que reformar esta practica y pedimos al comisionado y alcalde que escuchen. que no podemos ver tantos jÓvenes que estÁn siendo con este estigma de estar parados y que sean revisados y registrados. >>> la policÍa defiende el... o parar y revisar. porque dice que la ayuda a combatir la delincuencia algunos vecinos dicen beneficiarse de ella porque les damas tranquilidad en sus barrios. el proyecto de ley llamado seguridad en nuestras comunidades. sostendra audiencias pÚblicas para escuchar a favor y en contra las voces de los residentes. >>> filadelfia tuvo una situaciÓn muy similar a new york hasta que una orden judicial permitiÓ que estas medidas cambien dramÁticamente. algo que mayor tambiÉn quiere hacer. en la ciudad de new york univisiÓn. >>> hablamos de la operaciÓn rÁpido y furioso. cuando la agencia para el control de armas permitiÓ el envÍo ilegal de armas hacia mÉxico,s teÓricamente era armar a los carteles de la droga. pero jamÁs imaginÓ

i work at a nonprofit charter school network in harlem in new york. >> and i'm a stay at home dad. i stay home with the kids. send them off to school in the morning, pick them up from school, hang out with the moms, play dates. >> do the laundry. cooking. >> laundry, cooking. >> cleaning. >> yeah. it's all -- you know, the gender roles, like the historical gender roles are obviously kind of reversed here. it also suits me because i'm a writer and, you know, i can be home and i can work when the kids are off to school for a little while here and there and work when they go to bed and i don't need to be somewhere. it's a small house to begin with. and my office is now the new baby's room. the desk was moved out and the crib moved in, very symbolic shift, which is a little tough because i like to kind of spread my work out a bit in the office, sort of put up cards and inspirational things and, you know, new baby comes, i'm just not going to have a whole lot of time for my writing but, you know, that's part of the gig. it's not all a sob story. i mean, i'm incredibly lucky to be able t

jeffrey has been combating the effects of poverty and students in harlem for years. >> we have younge growing up in places in this country where everything is against them. they have terrible health care, violence, drugs and gangs in their community. we have got to get those kids and education. we also have to make those communities healthier for kids to grow up. >> it requires a system that focuses on the whole child, not focuses on the whole child, not just test scores. [ male announcer ] with ultra-filtered water from the first hands-free system, and micro-climate controls powered by twinchill technology, the new ge french door refrigerator puts fresh in a whole new light. come see the new ge french door refrigerator for yourself at bray & scarff. buy now and save up to $500. but hurry this incredible offer ends october 10th. come in today or visit online at brayandscarff.com. >> time now for your maryland lottery pick 3 and pick 4 numbers. >> good afternoon, md.. time for your pick 3 numbers. let's kick off with a 9. we have a one. here is a zero. 9-1-0. the maryland lottery is i

playing the harlem globe trotters. because all anybody wants to talk about is peyton manning. it's what we'll talk about right now. everybody wants to see him in a different uniform. how effective will he be? the town will be going crazy. what a night that's going to be sunday. >> yeah. and i got a chance to watch the game tapes, obviously, of him going along. and the first two preseason games, eh, you know, it didn't look like him. and then in the third one he took a big-time shot. just as he was releasing the ball, completed the ball down the field about 40 yards. and from that moment on it was just the peyton manning show. here he goes. the nfl, they don't give you any easy spots out there. so you're going to come back, you're going to get traded to denver. okay. we're going to give you the number one defense in all of football. here come the pittsburgh steelers. we understand james harrison even practiced a bit today too. >> right. and they're of course in a very, very tough decision where you've got the cincinnati bengals, who went to the playoffs last yeah, obviously. we

in this case, lickety split. >> i love you, harlem. thank you. god bless you. i feel at home.> in december of 2001 he breaks ground on his presidential library, little rock, arkansas. it's a low key affair. bill clinton needs to focus on the short term as well. he needs a significant income for new family homes in new york and washington to cover millions in legal fees from the fruitless whitewater investigation as well as to raise funds for the library. he writes a successful memoir and gives hundreds of speeches earning tens of millions in speaking fees. he is even then feeling his way to a higher purpose. >> he realized that his next big mission would be to do what he had done as president, to do this now as a private citizen. >> in 2002, clinton joins nelson mandela at the international aids conference in barcelona. >> we must find ways and means to make life saving treatment available to all who need it. clinton is inspired to launch the clinton hiv/aids initiative to negotiate affordable rates for medications in developing countries. >> the first thing we had to do is ge

janet, you're in harlem. what's worked in addressing the situation of poverty at your school?gly believe that a student's zip code should not determine the trajectory of their life. strongly. [ applause ] so i've been doing this for 11 years now. and what i have found that worked. i was at nine years at a public school, now two years at a charter, is i -- my job is harder. let's face it. my kids don't learn as much vocabulary at home. their parents can't necessarily help them with their homework. their parents can't necessarily talk to them about college. so i take that on. someone needs to do that for them. they're minors. they deserve that. right? so what do i do in i get on donors choose. i've had 54 projects funded. over $70,000. it can be done. it doesn't take a lot of my effort. and i just do it. i take the initiative. so i get the resources. i help them with the college stuff. i get more books for the kids because they don't have books at home. and i spend more time with the kids. so in my public school yeah the union told me not to work past a certain time. i didn't ca

jeffery canada has been combating students in harlem for more than 20 years. >> we have young people some places in the country that everything is really against them. they have terrible health care, violence, drugs and gangs in their communities. we have to give those kids an education, but we have to make those communities a healthy place. >> reporter: the solution, educators say, requires a system that focuses on the whole child and not just test scores. in new york city, i'm danielle lee, nbc news. >>> to decision 2012. the election is just 43 days away. early voting by mail is under way in two dozen states. president obama meets with the united nations while mitt romney's camp is hoping for a fresh start. romney kicked off a tour of ohio this morning. romney wants to shift the conversation back to jobs and economy and leadership after last week's release of the secret videotape. he wants to focus on more tax information. he gave his taxes out. he is hoping to get back on the attack against president obama. >> you know, you can't change washington from the inside. you can only ch

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more news today in harlem says once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are today . welcome back to spotlight i'm al we're now having just a reminder that my guest on the show today is italian a filmmaker powell attorney any. sea of tell he had he would have made a statement about how art can transform anyone's life even those imprisoned for life what was the effect of the play of the film the con convicts was their life really transformed after they worked with you and. i think they were deeply moved by the film one of them said that he could hardly recognize himself so. we think it was a very positive and in lightning experience for the prisoners to take part in this play to see the public welcome them or. people have no see in the film and will not forget about these prisoners. they will come away with the thought that inmates are human beings too just as anybody else even though they've been convicted of horrible crimes. the prisoners are aware of the

. >> i started off with the world renowned boys choir of harlem when i was about 11 years old.l over the place. i mean, paris. you name it. we'd be on the greatest stages with the greatest artists in the world from stevie wonder to placido domingo. >> with the world as his stage, there was an important lesson to be learned at a very early age. >> my possibilities were just endless. so i never, never once did not believe that i couldn't do anything and impossible was never an option for me. >> that confidence came in handy when jonathan got his chance to be part of history with the greatest show on earth. >> my grandfather reminded me, you know, he said, there was a time when i can sit anywhere and i'm seeing my grandson running this whole thing. that's cool. and i thought, man, that's when it really hit me and i really understood the magnitude of it all. you consider what the ringmaster is. i mean, as great as all of this talent is, i mean, we have people breaking wood over their bodies. bending metal rods with their throats, dancing on the backs of horses, hanging by their hai

in harlem and black harlem, african-americans and italian-americans are fighting in the street becauseewsily any has innovated and conquered africa. you have demonstration in china town against the japanese innovation of china and so on. it keeps the pot stirring. some new yorkers as well as other americans take this outside the country. they take it to spain in particular in 1936 '. 37. these are abraham lincoln brigade who went to fight against the rebellion against the spanish republican. he is joined by hitler and new lynn any and the republican was supported by stalin and the soviet union. you have have sort of a dress rehearsal for a world war ii being fought in spain. about 3000 americans go to fight as many as a foist a third of them from new york city. and so new yorkers are putting themselves again on the front line of international conflict. from 1934, the mayor of new york is a vocal one of the most vocal antinazi. he gets in to a transatlantic shouting match with berlin that goes on for several years. he declares hitler to be a man begannic and endangers the world and make

why i was at jeffrey canada's preschool program in harlem to understand what's happening there and the impact of poverty. and you've seen the film waiting for super manhat he figures in quite prominently, he goes back to talking not oy t olte e chdrenre coming from and how -- he has a program for parents that are getting ready to have a child to prepare the rent to help the child be able as to learn. we have to start very early. so i do in fact embrace the approacht mdok take that to a great greel myself. did when i was governor and will continue doing that if and when i'm president. >> governor, thank you. we'll go to questions with the explanation that this audience is diverse, there are teachers, there arstudent, pocymars, even people who god forbid might be pushing a certain agenda. so we'll see what we get. yes, sir, go ahead. >> governor, first of all, thanks for being here. brian williams asked who i responsibleor the kids at am.y hh scol tr i'm state superintendent of schools in michigan and i need to tell you that my personal shame frankly is that we have not been able to make

fifth grader from the city's tenderloin whose per for mans took her to a national competition at harlem apollo theater. it's thanks to a non-profit called america scores. it provides a program that combines poetry with soccer. that's kind of interesting. today that group set out to break the guinness world record for most soccer ballses at one time. they achieved that. what they really achieved is integrating sports with learning. we will have more on the story and hear from that fifth grader to won that trip to new york tonight at 11:00. it's quite a story. >>> first, we want to check. it is really cool. we want to check on the weather because we do have issues coming up. >> air quality and the heat, two things will make it tough. respiratory issues, outdoor plans may be effected some tomorrow as we start to see 90s on the board tomorrow. we do have that excessive heat watch tomorrow. especially come monday as it gets hotter. as that fog gets squished down to the ocean. tomorrow we will start to see more 90s pop up at the inland. tomorrow morning not so bad. watch what happens here as

with a fifth grader from the city's tenderloin, whose skills sent her to a national competition at harlem'spollo theater. nbc bay area's kimberly tere explains, this girl calls herself a poet athlete. >> reporter: 5th grader nazrene was able to find her voice thanks to a nonprofit called america scores bay area that combines soccer with poetry in urban schools. >> my poem. >> reporter: the 10-year-old poet/athlete from morocco is being raised by a single mother. >> my mom held me tightly. she held me tightly like saturn holding its rings. we were in morocco on a camel's back. the camel smelledly bitter chocolate, but i wasn't scared because my mom held me tightly. >> reporter: she says she draws inspiration from her own life. >> i heard thunder, loud as a howling wolf. i saw a flash of lightning outside my bedroom window in san francisco. i was six when my mom told me it would be okay. my mom spoke louder than thunder. my mom is strong. she is shaped like a mountain just for me. every week she climbs the hills of castro to raise money to support me. >> reporter: she had a chance to perform

i mean, here we are in harlem is an audience full of new yorkers. share what that's why chicago was such an important -- >> a man who has no bias about chicago. >> why chicago is such an important place in our story. >> chicago was where it was all happening. and really was one of those big cities where people were charred to go to. one of the most fascinating record sources i found were these letters of migraines that one of the journals collected as people and the 1900s who are looking for places. in the chicago defender, the black newspaper der played a role in encouraging the migration and people wrote things like looking for a place, you know, this kind of work for that kind of work that one of the letters that struck me, which i think i quote i was looking for a place where i can be a man or a black man can be treated like a man. people thought that in this place it was a segregated, not like he was in the south. you can go to integrated schools, vote there. and you could make a real living wage. it was a huge vibrant social or religious life

playing the harlem globe trotters. because all anybody wants to talk about is peyton manning. it's what we'll talk about right now. everybody wants to see him in a different uniform. how effective will he be? the town will be going crazy. what a night that's going to be sunday. >> yeah. and i got a chance to watch the game tapes, obviously, of him going along. and the first two preseason games, eh, you know, it didn't look like him. and then in the third one he took a big-time shot. just as he was releasing the ball, completed the ball down the field about 40 yards. and from that moment on it was just the peyton manning show. here he goes. the nfl, they don't give you any easy spots out there. so you're going to come back, you're going to get traded to denver. okay. we're going to give you the number one defense in all of football. here come the pittsburgh steelers. we understand james harrison even practiced a bit today too. >> right. and they're of course in a very, very tough decision where you've got the cincinnati bengals, who went to the playoffs last yeah, obviously. we

anything imaginable you might see the harlem globetrotters do, we do it on unicycles. >> never been onips? >> lock your legs and move your hips. >> i get more advice from two riders a little closer from my skill level. what do you think i should do to learn? >> sit up straight and your hands all the way up to the sky. >> so you can balance on your unicycle and you don't fall off. >> anything else? >> no. >> then it's time for my lesson. >> we invented unicycle training wheel to give people the ability to find out what it's like to ride a unicycle without having the balance. this seat needs to turn, wind up in one direction, twist your shoulder, and follow up with the core to twist that seat. that's it, she just got her license, everybody. one foot. way to go. >> feeling confident, i decide to take off the training wheel. oh, my god, i'm doing it. >> looking straight ahead, we never look down. >> never. >> all our weight on the seat, hands on the rail, pull yourself forward. good. immediately, get out of that position. >> whoa! >> yeah! >> after a few stumbles -- >> left foot comes up.

haven't been dependent on government in the way i used to be but i started out in public housing in harlem. i was a head start kid. i had -- my family had supports from government. and it enabled me to get to a point where the i.r.s. will confirm this, i have paid back the government many, many, many times over what was invested in me some decades ago. this is not a static, sort of population. this is not your destiny. this is not necessarily your political identity. and for him to have concluded that or to sound as if he concluded that, he's just off. it is wrong. >> eliot: other rolle --erol, that is so well said. it is so resident in terms of the notion of the american success story, you begin with a little bit, work hard, get a helping hand. nobody's dependent -- you get a helping hand. the stories we heard at the republican convention of immigrants who came here, benefited from a schooling and from programs that mitt romney's deriding when he talks about dependency. that's why the story doesn't make sense to me. >> it also doesn't make sense because there are a lot of social conservat

kids sit in an auditorium in central harlem. half of the girls get a ticket to go to a high quality school. the other half the to whatever school they are going to go to. four years -- seven years later the ones who didn't go are five times more likely to be pregnant. to the boys says that -- those that did not go are four times likely to be incarcerated. this is not just about test scores. i totally agree with folks who say high test scores for kids who are endangered or likely to be in prison not so interesting. kids who know the high factory in fear of are locked up and not interested in that. i am interested in these long-term outcome is. in the end these three pieces of evidence give me incredible optimism and concrete proposal for how i think we can move forward. is not perfect. we need a lot of work on reading. we think we are on the 40 yard line with 60 yards to go. we have three pieces of evidence. we have a sense what makes some schools effective and others not. we haven't figured out. 50%. second we know that if you t