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the kohlberg foundation. independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful wor. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. there's hardly a sentient grown-up in this country who isn't aware that o economy is no longer working for vast numbers of everyday people. the rich and powerful have more wealth and power than ever, ever

military units, who protected them as the agents literally ran down the road from culvert to kohlberg inspecting and autographing to see if there was a coal verge protection device there and whether it was adequate. i am happy to announce that while i was in afghanistan, those agents were able to arrest with afghan participation, and the afghan government is charging the contractor involved in this with crimes related to the fraud committed upon the government and negligent homicide of two u.s. personnel. we are developing alternative ways to conduct oversight in afghanistan, involving the security environment. for example, we of local nationals on our staff and not subject to the same security restrictions that american employees are. in some cases, we may have to rely on them. we're also exploring the use of geo-space imaging. these efforts are helpful, but not preferred. the gold and standard on u.s. oversight is an employee trained to do u.s. oversight going out there inspected the site, inspect and the records, kickingunfortunately, we may not be able to do that for very much lon

and empowerment, i worked with larry kohlberg way back then, a radical experiment in schools. the kind of flattening of government, empowerment and democracy. from my vantage point is pretty trivial. to them, it's a huge sea change your but when schools are hierarchical, go look at self-determination theory in d.c., and lots of other things. we are to rethink government structures and classes and schools. so, i'm not going to go through most of the. i just wanted to show you some evidence. karen smith was a principal, it goes from right to left. she said in 2003-five is when she started this journey. here's where she is now the the white one is bullying. you can see bullying dropping but you can do all these behaviors drop as she did character education. still a blue ribbon school. i'm not giving you the academic data. every one of these schools has these ridiculous increases in academic discourse. france's middle school, one of my favorites the these are detention. went any johnson, the principal start in 2003 at 1153 detentions. in 2008 it was down to 143. in-school suspensi

military units, who protected them as the agents literally ran down the road from culvert to kohlberg inspecting and autographing to see if there was a coal verge protection device there and whether it was adequate. i am happy to announce steps -- to announce that while i was in afghanistan, those agents were able to arrest with afghan participation, and the afghan government is charging the contractor involved in this with crimes related to the fraud committed upon the government and negligent homicide of two u.s. personnel. we are developing alternative ways to conduct oversight in afghanistan, involving the security environment. for example, we of local nationals on our staff and not subject to the same security restrictions that american employees are. in some cases, we may have to rely on them. we're also exploring the abuse of g.rawl imaging. -- g.imaging. . geo-spac imaging. these efforts are helpful, but not preferred. the gold and standard on u.s. oversight is an employee trained to do u.s. oversight going out there inspected the site, inspect and the records, kicking the tir