here to look at what this could mean for schools are rick hess director of education policy studies for the american enterprise institute. and bob wise, former governor of west virginia and president of the alliance for excellent education. rick, i want to start with you first. all schools were supposed to be at this place where kids were learning at grade level by last year. we didn't get there. how does this piece of legislation think it can fix that? >> understandturns out when you passed a law in 2001 that says 100% of children will be proficient in reading and math by 2014, the fact that congress would like it to be so doesn't make it. so i think that's the big lesson. no child left behind did two things around accountability. one, it created enormous contribution because for the first time we had real data on every child in every state on how they did on reading and math through their school years. what no child left behind got wrong was in their desire to make a difference, congress wrote this convoluted, problematic, overreaching accountability system which tried to tell states

so before we get too far, i just want to give a special thanks to rick hess, mike, the whole aei education policy studies team for hosting today's event. it's a great opportunity to share some of these results and findings and what we've been learning. today we're releasing the latest installment of the schooling in america survey. we've been doing this for a few years now, reporting on various topics in k-12. before we get into the slideses because polls and surveys can just throw at you a sea of data, lots of charts and it can be overwhelming. i thought we should step back and try to get a better understanding of what some of the social, maybe political developments have been around the country over the past school year and that could possibly signal some of the underlying context for the survey results and some of the findings we have. i don't know if any of you are fans or watch cbs this morning with charlie rose or gayle king. a big fan. they have this really great segment called "your world in 90 seconds." so i think in that spirit, let's call k-12 america in about 90 seconds. why do

so before we get too far i just want to give a special thanks to rick hess mike the whole aei education policy studies team for hosting today's event. it's a great opportunity to share some of these results and findings and what we've been learning. today we're releasing the latest installment of the schooling in america survey. we've been doing this for a few years now, reporting on various topics in k-12. before we get into the slideses because polls and surveys can just throw at you a sea of data lots of charts and it can be overwhelming. i thought we should step back and try to get a better understanding of what some of the social, maybe political developments have been around the country over the past school year and that could possibly signal some of the underlying context for the survey results and some of the findings we have. i don't know if any of you are fans or watch cbs this morning with charlie rose or gayle king. a big fan. they have this really great segment called "your world in 90 seconds." so i think in that spirit, let's call k-12 america in about 90 seconds. why don

we also learned that rick perry is keeping up hess sustaining of trying to be relevant by trying to continuingto pick fights with donald trump. governor perry's latest gam butt is a contest of pullups. apparently don't trump keeps calling him a weak ling. >> he said you don't belong on the debate stage on august 6th. he questioned your energy and quote/unquote brainpower. what would you say to mr. trump. >> let's get a pull-up bar out there and see who can do pull-ups. >> nothing measures brainpower like -- texas governor rick perry and south carolina senator lindsey graham are the two bottom tier candidates who have tried to use fighting with donald trump as their strategy, and the beltway press totally cheered them on in choosing this as a campaign strategy. that will work. it has not worked. both lindsey graham and rick perry look increasingly out of running when it comes to trying to get on to the stage next week. there were new details published today, include that fox news said the candidates already organized according to polls numbers, not only do of to make the top ten to get on stage