on pisa test scores. in tampa florida, the hillsborough county school district is taking a different approach. it was selected as one of four districts to receive a grant from the bill and melinda gates the invasion of $100 million over seven years. bill gates spoke about the changes needed to the egypt -- educational system at the 2009 ncsl conference in philadelphia. >> you'd think we should identify the top teachers. we should award them. we should retain them. we should make sure other teachers learn from them. >> regarding the grades of the hillsborough county school district, becky phillips the education director said it is all about the importance of teaching. it is the seven-year experiment to get the best teachers possible in the classroom. our ultimate goal is to dramatically increase student achievement, raise graduation rates, and to insure college and career readiness. the way to do this is to ensure our teachers are inspired and have the support they need. local administrators i spoke with f

. >> this brings me to pisa. what is the pisa? it is a global assessment looking at the performance of what we believe for the most essential subject areas but we don't just look at people's confidence. we are also interested in people's attitudes, their positions. we test the highest competence we also want to know whether young people see signs that will open a life opportunities for them but they understand what they learn in school relates to their life and reconnect data to the parents, schools and systems that help us understand where the education systems actually deferred. >> of the pisa surveys are given every three years beginning in the year 2000. the results of the tests may be surprising. united states has consistently performed no higher than average. these average results for the united states for in all subject testing. math, science and breeding as well as an all of the years tested, 2000, to cause the tree and in 2006. what does this say about americans and our education system? in 2004 "the wall street journal"

-- on the pisa test. >> what do these rankings mean? >> we need to work harder on our scores or we will continue to fall behind. >> speaking about your own education experience and community, what are some areas that are working? >> at my school, the teachers focus on cooperative learning and creating a positive learning environment. >> what are some areas that you think need to be improved? >> i think teachers salary is an area not working well. currently teachers are paid based on longevity instead of performance. >> with what have you learned from the people that you interviewed? >> i learned a lot. the headmaster at my school taught me a lot about different cooperative learning strategies, such as getting students to focus more by bringing different activities into the classroom. >> in your documentary you mentioned what a county in florida is doing to increase student performance. what are they doing? >> we are one of four counties to receive a grant from the bill and melinda gates foundation. this money will go to teachers in the

. >> host: with reagan you always felt there was a slight shield or pisa plexiglas, what he would last into a jack warner movie studio, a story for you, but he wouldn't really engage. whereas george h. w. bush was always eager to engage. >> guest: there is always a distance. ronald reagan i can't do all the time because i asked him about things that he had a tremendous interest in education. and he did use a story that you love to use the story. that was the way he communicated. but president bush had this one is robert louis stevenson a natural geniality of the world's greatest men. and easy familiarity. president reagan was very friendly and accessible. but there was always a distance. bush always broke down, everybody sitting in the room, off the oval office, got another name during the clinton administration. we will go through that. ross perot was on and ross perot was writing about president bush, president bush, you not disrupting his daughter's wedding and the secret service. kind of crazy things. and president bush turned to me and said, was to get the stuff? you know, it was

. >> what is pisa? >> there is program for international student assessment. it is meant to provide countries with an accurate data about their education systems. >> how have the americans have ranked in pisa testing? >> american students have ranked average on the testing. every year it has been given, including 2003 and 2006. >> what does this mean? >> it means you need to work harder on improving our scores. >> thinking about your own educational experience and the community, what are some areas that are working? >> teachers at my school focus on creating a positive learning environment. >> what are some areas that need to be improved in the education system? >> teacher salaries. currently, teacher paper work -- the date instead of performance. >> what did you learn from the people that you've interviewed? >> the headmaster at my school taught me a lot about different cooperative learning strategies. you can get the students to learn more by focusing on different activities. >> you also mentioned what hillsboro county in florida is doing to help increase to

. >> pisa surveys are given every three years, beginning in the year 2000. the results may surprise you. the united states has consistently performed no higher than average. these average results for the united states are in all subjects, math, science and reading. what does this say about americans and our education system? in 2004, "the wall street journal" headline read "economic time bomb, u.s. students are the worst at math." if education is the most powerful weapon we can use it to change the world, do these test results indicate that we will not be able to lead in the near future because we are failing our younger generation? president obama said -- >> americans education system must once again be the envy of the world, and that is what we intend to do. that is what the budget i am is submitting intend to do. >> president barack obama is committed to improving the educational system. in 1966, a famous sociological researchers conducted an extensive study on the effectiveness of our educational system. according to his research, the amount of money spe

>> homeowners had a lot of pisa to. >> please identify yourself for the record the. >> jack schakett with bank of america home loans. the hope ownership program, the theoretical point of you looks nice because the idea of share appreciation feature, giving oklahoma a chance for appreciation and invest a chance to share and that is appealing. but every program has operational concerns. what probably hurt hope for homeowners the most was because of a significant deviation from the standard fha program, the operational hurdle was the place has been very difficult to we've been working on rolling out hope for homeowners quite some time. we are still not there yet. you look at the new program for fha which on some is simpler will be much operational easier to roll out a much more effective from that point of view. >> thank you. >> i would say that while hope for homeowners was a competent program in terms of how it could be executed, i generally tend to be a little bit more in favor of shared appreciation because i believe that unless there is some sharing of the outside, but the whole no

the and i did know them as well as you but with reagan he always felt there was a slight shield lord pisa plexiglas where he would lapse into a jack warner movie studio story for you but you wouldn't really engage. whereas george h. w. bush was always eager to engage in. >> guest: there was always a distance. ronald reagan i talked to all the time because i asked him about things. he had a tremendous interest in education. and he did use the story, he loved to use the store, that's the way he communicated. but president bush had this, what is robert louis stevenson say, a national genie out of the world great man and an easy familiarity. president reagan was very friendly and accessible. but there was always a distance. bush always broke down the distance. i was sitting in the room, refer to it as the oval office, got another name during the clinton administration. we won't go into that, but we were watching the today show and ross perot was on. ross perot was writing about president bush. president bush disrupting his daughter's wedding and the secret service. these kind of crazy things.