here to discuss are david banks, kelly goff and dr.a rulawitz from the city college of new york. thank you all so much for joining me. you all have seen the numbers, graduation rates are low. literacy rates are low. what can you see as the roof of this issue, why are we falling on the education side? >> like most problems it's not just one issue at fault, i think there's no question that every study has shown that the teacher that the child has particularly when they're young can make the difference whether they fail or succe succeed. i think the new york times magazine examined a dozen studies that showed when you focus on a dozen things the school can control, the one thing that made the biggest difference in the long term was a teacher that the child had. i think we have to focus on better training for teachers. i was reading about doug lamotte's book which is teach like a champion. there are a lot of teachers who aren't succeeding in the classroom. we also have to get rid of tenure, it's harder to get rid of a bad teacher than it i

kelly goff, gobz said he was disappointed with the national media saying they gone along without doingrting of the only organization that contacted him for a statement was cbs news but it's hard to duplicate the reporting of isabel macdonald. she spent a lot of time talking to the workers, not using their names because they're in the country illegally. >> i've been on this program to defend my team of new media if you will, howard. this is definitely an example of a feather in the cap of old media. this was some very well done investigative reporting. so i'm not really sure where lou's coming from to say that this was a hit job, this was a smear job. i mean a reporter can have a set out agenda or intent, but if they actually do the investigative work and get evidence, then i'm not really sure where he has a leg to stand on. >> the fact that it's a left wing magazine, that is true but doesn't mean what she reported is not true and he kept coming back to that. let me turn to rick sanchez. one week after he was fired by cnn he finally broke his silence, put out a ten id statement and talk

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