night shyamalan.e talked about your book "i got schooled," but your history as a film maker, you had your first maimer success while you were in your 20s. you had a string of movies. you had a love-hate relationship with critics, they love you, hate you, love you. your book received remarkable reviews. >> i should write nonfiction books from now on. >> that may be the solution. you are who you are, you are young and people want to know what is going on in your film life? >> it's been - i feel like i've been making movies forever. it's 20 years, which is a long time. even before, you know, "the sixth sense," i was 27, when i directed "the sixth sense." before that there was six years of making movies that failed. those six years did not go away. you came on the scene out of nowhere. not really, it was six years of failure. i made two movies, two two years to make them both and they fail. dark times, my friend. >> i feel like you are happiest with real horo? >> i enjoy it. >> you are doing something in

and an one-on-one with m night shyamalan, on the education gap. this is "real money with ali velshi." >> this is "real money." you are the most important part of the show. join our live conversation at twitter, after the aj real money and @ali velshi. there are more signs that the economy is on the mend. the broadest measure of the goods and services produced grew in the months of july, august and september compared to the previous three months. driving those gains, higher spending by consumers nan what was initially calculated. the growth makes its case for an economic recovery going into 2014. if we can maintain this momentum, but one cause of concern is a big share of this summer's growth came from businesses stuffing goods on their shelves. and unless americans get out and shop over the holiday season we're not going to see that for a bit. however you're going to slice it it. >> we'll get the firstes first e of gdp on january 20th. it will give businesses incentive to expand and create jobs. since this summer we've added 200,000 jobs a month i

night shyamalan. against their assimilation. >> if you go to the mixed elementaries, you'll see the roma at their desks, no one it complaining about them, but the government wants to place 500 roma students there. that would have went one nonroma to three roma. >> reporter: the elementary school is key to change. only a handful currently make it to middle school because their grades are poor and because by 12 some rom roma girls are alrey being married off. authorities and the media wrongly assumed in october that a blond child living in a roma camp must have been an abducted westerner, she turned out to be roma. all the same, the local mayor says, he can't sacrifice the nonroma half of his constituency. >> the roma's didn't begin to attend school in large numbers until the 1990s. and as soon as that happened the ghetto schools were set up. now finally, the roma realized that education is important to find work and get away this lifestyle. >> reporter: he still hopes the court decision will lead to gr

night shyamalan. >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. was -- prince william was dating kate middleton. >> ross shimabuku is here with sport. >> dennis rodman is in north korea to train basketball players for an upcoming player. he wants everyone to know he's not a joke. this is the same guy who dressed up in a wedding gown and will rite a book with his bff, kim jong un. the 52-year-old rodman, who never shies away from the spotlight arrived in north korea >> and now a techknow minute... >> welcome back, chicago's mayor, ron immanuel, says that if the city doesn't change retirement benefits and changes, chins will see a cut in vital services, and do you see a way forward here where everybody gives in a little to mitigate some of the damage. >> you have to understand, the city doesn't have the same problems that are just with the state of illinois. the state of illinois is paying 20 cents on the dollar toward their pension plans, and the city of chicago i

. >> this week on talk to al jazeera, we are talking with iran's foreign minister mohammed shyamalan. >> you said iran does not seem to be on your agenda for the time being. is this a sign that relations are still strained? >> i said that saudi arabia is an important country in our region. we believe that iran's relations with saudi arabia are important for iran, our relations with our neighbors. i played a decision to come to the region immediately after returning from general easy a it can only help the entire region and is not against any of our neighbors. that decision came very late, and we are still arranging a couple of other trips that we have to make to the region to complete my tour. so, it's too early to say whether the fact that it means our relation with saudi arabia is strained. i hope to be able to arrange a meeting in saudi aur abe i can't. >> the reason i ask you this question, i have been traveling extensively in this part of the world, which is a tree dominantly sunni world. the perception of this part of the world is is that iran is a destabilizing factor, trying t

night shyamalan. >> welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm richelle carey. rlings demanding vur demanding r yanukovych, protestors vow to stay on the street for as long as it takes. jennifer glasse joins us live from kiev with the very latest. jennifer, these protests have been going on for weeks. i understand the crowds have died down a little but still quite a few people. what's happening now? >> reporter: well, the crowds richelle are thinning out. we saw thousands of people gather on independence square, the fifth sunday in a row we've seen that. an indication that the pro testings are still going -- protests are still going on. the opposition that spoke to the crowd say they hope they will celebrate new year's here, they want to start a new people's movement across civic organizations a people's organization called the independence movement here, to try to keep the momentum going, i think that's really the problem richelle what will happen next. some of the pro testingors are very -- protestors are very tired, very haven't heard anything against the gov

and an one-on-one with m night shyamalan, on the education gap.his is "real money with ali velshi."

night shyamalan. >> tonight we return to a dark time in american history and deeply painful wounds that may never be healed. vicious crimes - murders, lynchings, horrors that took place in hidden corners of the deem south in the civil rights area. to this day many crimes are unsolved, no one held to justice. a few years ago those cases were brought to life, if not to closure. we look at some of those shocking cases, with a report from al jazeera's andy gallagher. >> the archives of ferriday's newspaper is a mirror into the past. there are stories here some would prefer to forget. >> this is september. three nights before frank died. this is his advertisement. he ran it every week. >> the man that died was frank morris, a successful businessman who owned a shoe repair shop. he was well liked by the entire community. his white customers would oven let their children play in his chop. that, say investigators was reason enough for the ku klux klan to target him. in 1964 frank's business was set on fire. he was forced to stay inside at gunpoint. he was last seen running with his clothes on f

night shyamalan's book "i got schooled" focus on inner city schools. he sat down with ali velshi for tonight's edition of "talk to al jazeera." >> the tenant, the thing we are saying is no roadblock teachers. what i mean is the research supports that the bottom percentage of teachers, the 1%, 2%, 3%, the bottom are pulling a drag on the system that it's hard for the other teachers to compensate. there was a bottom 1-2-3%. you can't make up the lose with 4 above average teachers. there's four in a row. slightly above average. they can't make up for the one teacher. >> you talk about leadership or principles. explain this. >> in the schools that close the gap and are closing the gap, it's a consistent architecture to what the leadership looks lick. by leadership, there's a principle or another group taking care of paperwork, fundraising, facilities. they bifewer kate the responsibility and have principles. >> that's the chief academic officer. >> yes, and they spend 80%. time teaching teachers. if you are the coach, you can't be in the office room while

night shyamalan's book, "i got schooled" focuses on a gap between inner schools. he sat and talked to ali velshi. >> you know how people say america is design compared to countries. we are a little behind poland and a little ahead of lip ten design. that's where we land in the list. that's not the truth. the truth is actually bizarrely black and white literally, which is if you pull out the inner city low-income schools, pull it out of the united states, put them to the side and took every other public school in the united states, we lead the world in public school education by a lot. and what is interesting is we think about finland. that is obviously mainly white kids, right, and they teach kids well. against that we teach the kids better. we beat everyone. our white kids are taught the best public school education on the planet. those are the facts. >> you can watch the entire interview coming up at the top of the hour at "talk to al jazeera". 7 o'clock eastern, 4:00 pm pacific. it's not the grinch that stole christmas but the mould killing christmas trees that

night shyamalan. >>> on the newshour here, the former vice president of south sudan says he wants to be the next leader of the country. he denies he was behind an attempted coup but said the blood shed must end. >> in central africans rep public politics, three men said to have been loyal to the selica alliance which toppled the government this year died in that confrontation. >>> al secular activist group in egypt has condemned jail sentences handed down to three prominent campaigners. they were convicted of organizing protests in defiance after controversial law which restricts demonstrations. >> whether it's food or fuel, the cost of basic items in pakistan is skyrocketing. the inflation rate for november was 10.9%, the highest in nearly two years. the leader of the opposition party has addressed large ralli rallies. many angry at rising prices. the former cricket player is blaming the government. >> talking to some of the people affected by the rapid price hike, from northern pakistan >> reporter: the weekly shopping here isn't what it used to be. he has had to cut back on basic

joining us now film maker shyamalan. he's the author of the book "i got schooled."en you talk about it. i can't say it. i can't say, i see dead people. >> you just did. >> i'm not going to say it. everyone always says it and thinks it's funny and they're not. in a nutshell, in making movie and scouting the set, you were intrigued by the the difference in two different public schools in term of whether students even knew who you were. >> we went to one amazing public high school. we went in the van and went to a second one that was so opposite. guards, metal detectors, kids had faces down. bars on every classroom door they had to unlock. it was a dark situation. it was upsetting and it got me wondering what the differences are between the two public high schools in philadelphia. >> you did an analytical data driven study to try and figure out how to close the the gap. >> i wanted more than anybody not to have an opinion because of the heated subject as you know. i basically spent two years accumulating all the research about every subject you've ever heard of. classr

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night shyamalan to start a foundation to give scholarships for college to inner-city students visited successful schools around the country to find out what could be learned from them. he identifies five key factors that they all share. this is about one hour. de >> well, this is fun. i'm a fan and i don't see anyle dead people here today. a little joke.is [laughter] wh actually, one of the memorable lines of your films is i see to dead people which is really fun. i like it.en pe w i anwant to start off withnt something from your writing because i think hiwhen people w to read this book they want to read something you wrote.yo it's a personalu blog. the it wasn't assigned to you.ssio you pick the topic.wonderf depict the passion, education. so this wonderful line is ere we, black, and very tough, and it's a tough rundown neighborhood, the whole place, and you were talking to the kids, african-american kids there, wondering why you are the highest paid writer in the world, you tried to get their interest, right way to do it, i think. i'm more me than they are them. explain that about y

knight shyamalan offers a solution to current education problems in his book, "i got schooled."tomorrow at 8:45 a.m. eastern, newt gingrich talks about his most recent book, "breakout: pioneers of the future, prison guards of the past be and the epic battle that will decide america's fate." then at 6 p.m. eastern in light of the ongoing battles over the federal budget in congress, we take a look at several books that have recently aired on booktv about the u.s. economy. and visit booktv.org for this weekend's television schedule. >> while visiting idaho, booktv took a trip over to kellogg located about 36 miles away. the town was founded in the late 19th century by prospector noah kellogg. we sat down with julie whitesel weston who recalls the history of the town. >> kellogg, i remember playing in the park. i remember skiing in the mountains. i remember going to school, which i loved. and i remember all the people who were around, the miners went by our house in the morning. they came by our house in the amp. we could hear the -- in the afternoon. we could hear the mine whistles

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