so with that, let me introduce roland fryer. he is going to summarize his paper. he is going to do 34 slides in one hour. >> thank you very much. it is great to be here again and to see so many familiar faces. >> let's start with this first. good morning. we all know that education in america, visited the show that our performance has grown over the last 30 to 40 years. if you look at the latest statistics as to how many schools didn't make it in 2011. if you look at the project, it shows that roughly 40% of our eighth graders are proficient in math or in reading. one of the things that is most disturbing to me, of all the school district, there was not one of them in more than 25% in math or reading. in places like detroit, more than only 3% are proficient. roughly two years ago i stumbled on the work of jeffrey. i was blown away to see that after, those who are lottery then, after four years, there was an achievement gap in math to apply for the lottery and the average licensing and all of your city. i have to say this on c-span just in case she is watching. one

roland fryer from harvard. when you look at where kids drop out of school, you do find that you have middle schools and high schools and yes islam elementary schools where you have a higher percentage of kids reading in those schools then he do another schools and a lot of that comes back to having a quality teacher in every classroom and that is a huge huge goal of our board of education. our board is so serious about this issue that i can tell you how proud i am of them for their willingness to let us engage. >> thank you. it sounds like you guys have a lot of innovative ideas there. so our next is elena silva the senior associate at the carnegie association for the fans when of teaching and one we talked this morning i was reminded, i asem this is a trip to every single american present at the one i've heard said about it is andrew jackson when told the supreme court that issued some law or rule said well why don't you tell the supreme court and enforce it? i believe your interview might have something to do

panel entitled "learning from the successes and failures of charter schools" discusses a paper by roland fryer, robert m. baird professor of economics at harvard university. the moderator will be roger altman, chairman of new visions for public schools and founder and chairman of evercore partners. the third panel entitled "harnessing technology to improve k-12 education" discusses a paper by aaron chatterji. associate professor at duke university. the moderator again will be michael greenstone. finally we are deeply honored to conclude our program with remarks like the honorable arne duncan, secretary of the u.s. department of education. he will make his remarks, and then he will entertain questions from the floor. this is a truly remarkable program that will give all of us the opportunity to listen to and engage with important thought leaders in this absolutely critical area. for development elect rule concept for this area come and then to bring the program together, let me thank three people. michael greenstone, threats of the hamilton project, karen anderson, managing director of the hami