. >> between schoolwork, tv, video games, and movies, it's often hard to find time to read a book just for the fun of it. so, our question this week is actually two questions. "what book did you read recently outside of school? and what did you like about it?" >> i read "the witch of blackbird pond," and i enjoyed it because it keeps it interesting, but it's an 18th-century story so it's less boring than most of them are. >> i read a book called "twilight," and i enjoyed it 'cause i like reading big books, and reading is part of one of my hobbies. >> "number the stars," and why'd i enjoy it? because i like learning about history, about, like, my religion and stuff. >> i read "the fault in our stars," and i enjoyed it because i thought that it was relatable to teens, even though i personally don't have cancer, because i think everyone knows someone who does. and i thought it was just very -- like, it was an emotional book, and i enjoyed it a lot. >> the book was called "legend," and i enjoyed it because it had a lot of action, had a big variety of genres mixed into one. so, i enjoyed it

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. >> reporter: one year later, we wanted to know about the schoolwork discovered in this classroom, all of it intact. just before the storm hit, they were writing what they liked most about their teacher. there was just a couple of days left for school for the year. a year later, we went back to find this teacher, and here she is. holding a baby she had a month ago. little lily. telling us, she never made it back to her classroom. seeing the pictures now on "world news". and she remembers, and sings to her baby. she had the children singing in the hallway to keep them distracted. now, she sings to her baby. >> it's always going to be a part of me and who i am. >> so many milestones, the first day of school in the church. now stars throughout moore tonight. the message, moore strong. one with a simple heart. and the message they've carried with them this past year, have hope. the two schools will open in august, and both with shelters. both filled with teachers, who say your child is my child. all day long, all year long. >> we love these teachers and what they teach all of us. thank you

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i was naÏve about how college worked, schoolwork. but the difference is i was working-class.my dad had a job. >> host: did a live at? >> guest: et. >> host: was that rare? >> guest: i think it was pretty common in those days. in rural appalachia as opposed to urban appalachian communities, you did tend to have families where you have a dad and mom living in the house. my dad was living in the household, had a job and not was different because the girls that i taught in cincinnati, largely their dads are out of the picture. they had biological dad, but they were just not part of their everyday lives in their mom's worst dirtying to lose it because of the drug issue and so their families were beginning to be ripped apart. what i saw in this appalachian meaning in cincinnati, similar to other urban families that their grandma's kind stepped in and start taking over in taking control of the family. in fact, one of my students i write about in "the road out," blair, her grandmother was her central caretaker. >> host: how did you get out? added you to call us? >> guest: the one key

in the simple opening ceremony he seems down to schoolwork on to compete in the nineteen eighteen an editorial from the government announced the sneeze take the people's daily revealed the identity of the museum. jonathan chan hong kong residents was the university student back in nineteen eighteen the line he recalls the scene at the local hospital that night most of them all the words of the more one looks beautiful with the people and again more info. is unbearable. much too which was to accommodate the students get ready to go in beijing and hong kong the bbc's media they just weren't into adults. he's a person to get this itch to some of the exhibits from the crackdown twenty five years to get in the form of british colony of hong kong returned to chinese rule in nineteen ninety seven but remains a freewheeling kept it up is a new council did the chores aren't in the polls said to the pot from mainland china but all commemorations of times. last night and the china unveiled its bloated sense of economic and social reforms in nearly three decades relaxing its one child policy. bu

for lyle the project has taken schoolwork from pencil and paper. >> in science you just do a work sheet. >> reporter: to something tangible. >> the mathematics and science, there really needs to be hard thinking on the other side of that math. so if there's a coaster on the other side of how many track do we need, all of a sudden the word problem gets done really fast. >> reporter: for lyle the mini six flags is nearly perfect. how often is this? >> 9 -- how awesome is this? >> 9.5. >> reporter: what would make it more awesome? >> if it had a loop. >> reporter: dad said lyle has to design that himself when he completes his dream of becoming a roller coaster designer. >> that is so neat. will pemble keeps a blog about his coaster building adventures. we'll have a link on it on our website www.kpix5.com. click links and numbers. >> safety first. if you're going to build a roller coaster in your backyard, wear a helmet. >> good idea. >> roller coaster helmet, why not? >> i thought doing train tracks at home was pretty thumbs up for dad. >> it is. you should be proud. >> had to get the pipe

. >> for pam mantle her granddaughter's schoolwork provides memories but little comfort as she seeksresolutions that could be years away. >> they need to come down on the damn defense and say enough is enough. we have waited long enough for the trial, we should have it and let's get the show on the road. >> end of june, june 26th, we don't have a firm timetable at this point on when we might have a decision. jonathan. >> allen schauffler. tennessee is bringing back the electric chair as a method of executions. if lethal drugs are not available. the lethal cocktail is less and less available. prosecutors might be challenging tennessee's rule calling it cruel and unusual punishment. >>> a man spent 19 years in jailed until he was recently pardoned by president obama. leading some to wonder how fair the justice system is. natasha guinane has the story. >> ricky was sentenced with no violence and no victim. >> people did worse crimes this me got lesser crimes that me. it was hurtful. >> his crime, possession of seven ounces of crack found in a car during a traffic stop. that and two earl

are frustrated about a lot of things, when i tell my kids to turn off their ipods and focus on schoolworkthey get upset at me as well. that doesn't mean that i just say okay i don't want you to get upset so you should be able to do whatever you want to do. we have to be as the adults know what our kids need, and, you know, i think i would -- i would encourage plxt seekay to read a blog written by a new york city teacher, that outlines why kids need to be held to these high standards and why teachers are actually supporting it. >> let me take a twitter question here. she writes i would like to know how you could take successes of charter schools to reform public schools? are the districts too large. you are obviously a support of of charter schools. >> i'm a supporter of effective charter schools and we have some incredibly charter schools in our country and also some not so effective. the ones that are doing really well, they implement a lot of practices that can be replicated by public school districts. they are extending school days, and school years. there are a lot of things that i th

on top of eight hours of schoolwork, it makes for a long day.d is here from 7:00 in the morning till 6:00 in the evening? >> 12 hours, almost. >> every day. >> every day, from monday to saturday. they only have sunday. >> only sunday to get into trouble. >> to practice at home. [laughs] >> home, for most of the kids in raphael's program, is called sarria, one of the poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods in caracas. >> these people, they don't have, almost, anything. so they decide to build a house here, and it's, like, five people per room. >> the worst section of sarria is a labyrinth of illegal shacks and alleyways built into the side of a ravine. >> and 80%, 90% of our kids come from here. so if you can see the kind of construction--it's really bad. it's really poor. >> how dangerous is it here? >> pretty dangerous. so you cannot be walking around here by yourself. >> not even you. >> not even me. no one. no one. even the people from the neighborhood can get robbed here. hola. so--well, it's part of the poverty. [playing melody on violi

reporter: she noticed that you were a bit of a perfectionist, had to do everything perfectly with schoolwork- surprisingly, we're able to stand right next to bridget as we talked to her. why us and not her own family? her doctor says this proves just how irrational the ocd can be. bridget's mind is fixated on her own family, and the ocd won't let go. >> eighth grade, miraculously, it was pretty much better. so i stopped taking my medicine, i stopped going to the therapist. and then that's when this came up. >> reporter: her ocd would come back with a vengeance.÷ú and this time, her fear had morphed into contamination. >> the contamination, and think about it as being something that's dirty, radiation or something like that. it spreads. >> reporter: bridget's doctor, allen weg. in bridget's case, how do you go from being a perfectionist to someone who can't touch her parents? can't even be in the same home with them? it seems so extreme. >> you have to think about ocd ú as sort of entering, entering a person's mind and looking around and saying, where can i cause trouble? and so, what better

institute for the blind, the bread institute, had them read on audio books so i could listen to my schoolwork otherwise i probably would not have made. comic books were very important for me. i got to learn. just get into the discipline every because reading is a discipline. it's like playing a sport. you've got to do it every day. you got to get used to otherwise it becomes intimidating. form a comic book for great about just sort of sitting down and reading. another reason, a third reason i did it was i never wanted the reader to forget what color these guys are. because i think when you write a book sometimes you can lose yourself in it. and i wanted that to be on every page. because these guys never forgot what color they were. for a moment i forgot when i first got to france, they were treated as equals, this is great. the hell fighters did so well in combat that the american army eventually had to write to the french government, a special modem to say listen, stop praising them. because you don't want to vote up with his ideas and have them come home. and literally, do not praise them e

thank them and their teachers allowing me to do so with the understanding they will be making up schoolwork. i also have behind me my mother who is a retired public school teacher from right here in themh public school system and also my siblings. ster valer my sister and my brother. my father is with me in spiritho as he always has been and i havr with me a person that served ase a father figure for my entire life and i also have with me in my beautiful teenage nieces. i would also like to acknowledge myic school te mother-in-law wha retired public school teacher and principal couldn't make the trip today that she supports me from her homets me from in colud finally i would like to acknowledge my colleagues and staff.ey're keepin they are keeping things smooth through in washington. washington. >> thank you all of you for your opening statements and most important, for your records in public service and i want to san again how important the hearing im if i want to welcome the chief justice thompson, chief i want to judge yoweu honor us by your presence here today and i'm sorry you had a bi

in the ashes, all that's left is their schoolwork. it's clear that the united states and the u.k. are intensifying their efforts to help find these missing girls. but as they say, the trail is four weeks old. they're not holding out a lot of hope. >> time is of the essence to say the least. >>> let's go down to amy who has the other top stories for us this morning. >> good morning, everyone. we begin with an emergency inside a coal mine in west virginia. and reports of miners trapped overnight. rescue crews have responded to an accident inside the brody mine in boone county, after indications of a possible roof collapse. two miners are now confirmed dead. as news of the accident spread, families rushed to the mine to check on loved ones. local media reports the mine has been cited recently for dozens of safety violations. we'll have more details as we get them. >>> and nasa is sounding the alarm about the warming planet. scientists are warning that the ice sheet at the bottom of the earth in western antarctica, is melting so quickly, it is unstoppable. by the end of this century,

but the lawsuit claims tanya mastoloni injected sorcery into schoolwork and tog her students to believe. they only found out about the alleged brainwashing when they say tanya mastoloni began targeting their youngest daughter now 16. the suit says that girl quote, broke free, now joining her parents in the claim. wellesley tells abc news overnight the college has not been served with a complaint in this matter and has no comment. in a statement, avon public school says "we will continue to review the content of the complaint. "at least one of kessler's former students is standing by her. >> nothing strange at all. she was a great teacher. i really enjoyed her class. >> reporter: amid claims of a classroom cult. in the lawsuit the parents say they've had virtually no communication with their two older girls since last summer. the suit seeks unspecified monetary damages. >> all right, mara thanks. great to have you with us on a holiday morning. lara. >> more on that rescue on mt. hood caught on camera. a mountain climber saved after a terrifying fall. he plummeted hundreds of feet down th

they are doing schoolwork for 10 or 12 hours a day. it is not right.ost: thank you for phoning in. guest: in 2006 we did a report called the silent epidemic. it put the graduation rate on the map. part of what students who were interviewed in the report said was they dropped out because they felt disconnected from school. they did not think a were learning in school what was going to help them succeed in life. that is a significant problem. we give examples of programs that are trying to make sure that students are not disconnected. that they are getting the support that they need and get personalized learning. they have options besides sitting in a classroom for 10 or 11 hours a day. i can't speak to the homework issue. i know a lot of schools of cut back on the amount of homework. we don't address that. we need to keep kids engaged in school and keep them on the tractor graduation. host: if you are just fitting in, our focus is on high school graduation right. it reached 80%. our guest is with civic enterprises. you can read the entire report online.

it's translating in their schoolwork and in their careers and everything. >> stay tuned to see if we'remmon core and the questions surrounding the implementations of the standards. we have an expert coming on the show that's going to answer your common core questions. he's answering e-mails. give us the questions you want answered. go to twitter right now, join us on facebook or send them via e-mail. >> is a con serve tif in favor of common core? not a lot of those. this is worth watching. >>> we have other stories making headlines that we want to get to. at least one person now facing arson charges in the deadly wildfires in california. the 57 yeerl is accused of adding brush to the fires near ocean side. he pled not guilty. so far 22,000 acres have burned causing $20 million in damage. one fire coming just feet away from christian singer's home. when she evacuated the flames for nearly three stories home and when she came home she found out how her house was spared. he said apparently a few of our neighbors stayed to help fight the fire which is a big reason why most of the reasons on