for more insight on that, i'm joined by kate zernike of the new york times. >> so this is a pretty big statement from the president on this very contentious issue, why is he coming out now? >> well, i think they wanted to get past the spring testing the push last year, or this year, but i think also there was a report coming out from council of grade city schools which is a coalition of 20 urban school district and they generally have been protesting but the superintendent set out to find out how many tests the kids are taking and the report came out saturday with the they are justs you said, you know, eight test as year, there are just so many, so many different tests, a lot of these tests are not only onerous but kind of point less and purposeless and not tied to what we want them to be tied to, learning in the classroom. >> brangham: so the president acknowledges maybe we are testing kids too much, even aj knowledge aj knowledge his administration may be part of the problem. what is he proposing as a possible solution to that a?. i think what will jump out to people is he wants a ca