steve perry joining me now. sound like it was going in the direction of dr. phil.s situation between the parents. how much is that situation, the divorced parents, how much is that really having an impact on that kid's school life? >> in jacob's life, it was pretty impactful. jacob is the sensitive middle child. it had an impact on the older brother and the younger brother as well but not in the same way. jacob internalized the conflict between mom and dad in a very, very detrimental way. so his grades suffered and he suffered. he just was sullen the first time i met him. he seemed disengaged and uninterested in really having a conversation. but you get to see how this thing unfolds. it's pretty amazing. >> and you're a principal. you see students day in and day out, been doing this for years. can you pretty much trace what is happening to the kid in school, if he's not performing well, can you trace that back to something that's happening at home? >> sometimes because this is a great family. they're divorced, right? and dad is remarried. he has four children. mom

steve perry introduces us to the pioneer and enjoys behind the videos in today's perry's pri e principl principles. >> in a small office in silicon valley, they are using illustrations and lingo to explain math, science, history, and even business concepts. >> if this does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion. >> the 10 to 20-minute tutorial are free to anyone, anywhere. >> you opened up the world of learning. >> the best way to get to the core of most issues whether it's poverty, health care and whatever, it's democracy and making sure you have an educated population. >> you have 31. >> he used it as a tool to home school his children. >> what i like about it is you can work at your own pace. they can rewind it and watch them open it. >> you have to matchup all the material before moving on. with only hints to help you. >> if you are struggling and you don't get it, you take the test and you get a c on the test. >> you can't move on with a c here. >> that's right. >> he uses videos in math class. the software tracks each student's progress. >> it allows the teacher to know thei

steve perry explains in today's perry's principles. >> team band radio silence is making nows with its new singling. >>> wewere starting to write our own music. when the wheels start spinning, how do you end up with that? >> let's make three lists, things we love, things we don't really care about, and things we dislike. we all grew up with the word "haters" on the word of dislikes. >> what is a hater. >> someone who makes fun of you for the way you look, your style. that's it, we wanted to write a song about it. >> how? >> we all experienced it, but probably me the most, i have always been on the shorter side. some kids just got a hoot out of either verbally, you know, picking on me or sometimes even physically. >> when i look at a band like the ramones and other, they must have been outcasts. tell me about that experience of being on some level by design, out casts. >> i guess guess you have to tr learn it's okay and be your own person. >> to spread that mesening, the band teamed up with a group for social change. together, they spoke out and rocked out at several high schools in the

education contributor steve perry met with a family that is going through that nightmare.ke-over." >> what goes on in a child's home is critical. >> steve perry. >> jacob. >> yes. >> do you have homework? >> i'll ask you again, how do you know she didn't give you a test today? >> i don't. >> you didn't do any homework from the time who got out of cool. guess who doesn't get any down time. >> how can a vegan flunk health? >> three brothers involved in a lot of activities, but one is struggling. >> i'm looking at three fs, a c-minus. is he in danger of failing ninth grade? >> it's up in the air. >> had you been able to be there in the beginning more often -- >>> when you keep saying that it's like you're punishing me today about that. >> what can we do to cut down on the communication breakdowns? challenge is power. that seems to be the issue. >> he wiwe'll have more of stev interaction with this afternoon's "education make-over" at 2:30 eastern time. >>> to our viewers i want to let you know, steve perry was scheduled to be a guest with us. there's a technical issue, we wer

cnn education contributor steve perry shows us how it works in this week's "perry's principles." >> reporterll sin con valley office, kahn is using simple illustrations and lynn goe to explain math, science, history and even business concepts. >> if this does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion. >> reporter: the 10 to 20 minute tutorials on kahn e cadmy.com are free to anyone anywhere. you've opened up the world of learning to the world. >> the best way to get the core of most issues whether it's poverty, health care or whatever, even democracy, is making sure you have an educated population. >> you got 31. >> reporter: dean bradley uses kahn academy as a tool for home schooling his own children. >> what i like about it and i think the kids like about it is that you can work at your own pace. if you don't understand the video you can pause it, rewind it, watch it multiple times. >> reporter: with kahn you have to master all the material before moving on with only hints to help you. >> if you're struggling with something in a regular school and you don't get it but you take the test

steve perry introduces us to the pioneer in today's "perry's principles ". >>> in a small silicon valleyle illustrations and lingo. >> if this does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion. >> the 10 to 20-minute tutorials are free to anyone anywhere. >> you've opened up the world of learning to the world. >> the best way to get at the core of most issues, whether it's poverty, health care, whatever is -- even democracy is making sure you have an educated population. >> you got 31, negative 31? >> dean uses khan academy as a tool for home schooling his two children. >> what i like about it and the kids like about it is you can work at your own pace. they can pause it, rewind it, watch it multiple times. >> with khan you have to master all the material before moving on with only hint to help you. >> if you're struggling with something in a regular school and you don't get it but you take the test and you get -- >> a c. >> a c on the test. >> can't move on with a c here. >> that's right. >> this fifth grade teacher uses khan video in math class. the software tracks each student's progr

steve perry went to camden, new jersey, to find out what's going on. >>> it's saturday morning in camdenthese teens gathered as a drug addiction facility but it's not what it sounds like. they're here to help, here to make this a better place. what makes you want to give back because you're a young kid. >> i'd rather not be in the streets all day. i'd rather do something productive. >> this is a rough neighborhood for sure. why here? >> it's not about where. it's who needs the help and when they need it. >> they're here as part of the action team. it's a program that was created eight years ago by the major league baseball players trust and volunteers of america. major leaguers and high schoolers come together so they can encourage young people to make a difference in their communities across the country. >> do you feel like what you're doing here is going to make an impact. >> yeah. everything you do makes an impact. it helps one person or helps a thousand. >> it isn't always, you know, giving money. sometimes it's giving time. >> what do you want the kids to get out today? >> you know

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cnn's education contributor steve perry sat down with michelle rhee to discuss her time in d.c. what's in her future. [ bell ] ♪ >> reporter: you were chancellor of d.c.'s public schools for three tumultuous years. what do you think the root of the problems that you had was? >> we wanted to put a system in place where the most outstanding teachers would be paid double what they were in the old system, and on the other side, if you were an ineffective teacher or principal, you were immediately terminated. i had the full backing of my boss, the mayor, adrian fenty, who said i'm going to put my entire political career on the line. >> reporter: what happened? >> he lost the election. >> reporter: recently test scores at some schools that were under rhee's leadership have been questioned. >> we hired an external investigator to investigate this. what they said was in the vast majority of cases they found actually, you know, no impropriety. in the small number of cases that they did see that something was wrong, we took the necessary actions against those people. >> reporter: do you f

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cnn education contributor steve perry reports a teen rock band is encouraging more kids to stand up andthing. >> reporter: teen band is making some noise about bullying with its first single "renegade". ♪ get out, get out, hatred is the enemy ♪ >> reporter: when the wheels stop spinning, how do you end up on bullying? >> we had this idea let's make three lists, things we love, things that we kind of don't really care about and things we really don't like, and we all wrote the word haters on the list of dislikes. >> reporter: what's that? what's a hater? >> someone who makes fun of you for what you like, your style, and we're like, that's it. that's the song we want to write about and something that's affected us in our lives. >> reporter: how? >> we've all experienced it, but probably me the most because i've always been on the shorter side, so kids just like got a hoot out of either verbally picking on me or some times even physically. >> reporter: when i look at bands like the ramons and others, they must have been outcasts. tell me about that experience of being on some level by desi

and i'd like to turn the rest of the time over to steve perry, who's the project architect, to go through a little bit more about the -- president chiu: tucked use the mike to your right. >> i'm going to use the computer, if possible. president chiu: you're on now. actually, that mike is working. >> good evening. my name is steve peppery. and i'd like to address some of the base data for the e.i.r. and talk about the neighborhood and some of the buildings around the neighborhood and then some of the acoustic issues that have been brought up. so these are photographs of the neighborhood, and you see we have booker t. washington here on the left and these are photographs of presidio av. to the north we have a larger building with larger units. a four-story building here and then a four-story building down at the other end of the block. then on our block, next to the project, we have smaller two-story buildings and then at the end of the second block you'll see here -- we have another four-story building. so these are looking down sutter. and directly across from our project, right here. if

steve perry, high school principal and the founder of one of the most successful middle and high schools. >> that's the fastest you can move, son? >> what i love is working with families and more specifically working with families to help them improve the way they educate their children. it's not what you do. it's how i don't do it. >> today we're visiting one of those families to make a house call. >> my name is la tanya, i have three sons, dexter is 16 and he's in the tenth grade. jacob is 14 and he's in ninth grade and joshua is 13 in seventh grade. i share custody with my sons with my ex-husband. >> without fail i usually get a call from mom -- >> he's remarried and has four additional children, two dogs and a whole lot of stuff going on. >> when she's running late, with have these -- depending on how late she is, we have these rendezvous points. there's a late scenario a and there's a late scenario b. i go ahead and drop the three i have from my second marriage, then i race to get the oldest two at either a or b. >> i'm remarried. i have my husband and i also have two additional chi

joining us from hartford, connecticut, steve perry, founder of the capital preparatory magnet schoolmorning. i don't find it that odd. sometimes for certain kids, you are doing what you have to do to make it through the subjects that you are not that strong in. you head to college and your not really prepared. >> the problem, kiran, here is that these students were given the promise when they were given a diploma that said they were, in fact, prepared fort next level for whatever the rights and privileges are that come with receiving a high school diploma. it is a pretty big problem, a multi-billion dollar program. children and families are having to pay more money to send their child to college than they should have to. that's not cool. >> what is the solution here? in some ways is recommend medial a dirty word. do you need to brush up on mat, ree math, reading and some of the basics. >> you shouldn't have to. a 12th grade education should prepare you for the next level, college. you can play a role in preparing your child in the basics. as early as possible, get them involved in re

education contributor and high school principal steve perry explains in tonight's "perry's principlesllying with its first single "renegade." ♪ >> you're starting to write your own music, when the wheels stop spinning, how do you end up on bullying? >> we had an idea, make a list of things we love, things we don't care about and things we really don't like. we all wrote the word "haters" on the list of dislikes. >> what's a hater? >> someone who makes fun of you for your style. it's like, that's it, something that has affected us. >> how? >> we've all experienced it, but probably me the most, because i've always been on the shorter side. >> tell me about it. >> so kids just like either verbally picking on me or sometimes even physically. i didn't really do anything about it and i should have, but i didn't. >> when i look at the ramones and others, they must have been outcasts. tell me about that experience of being on some level, by design, outcasts. >> you have to know it's okay. it's really all right and you have to be your own person and not care what other people think. >> the ban

steve perry is a cofounder of a magnet school and joins us live from hartford, connecticut.w to read and write and i got no input from the parents. the last thing i need it them memorizing a mickepicture of ab lincoln. >> why not teach them to read history? we often blame no child left behind for everything that goes wrong in education. listen. i know that george bush is not a popular figure among many people. he wasn't my favorite either. however, even a stopped clock is right twice and in case of education, he and many of the republicans were dead right. what they said is there needs to be standard. all no child left behind said there need to be standards and each state got to set their own standards and you get to decide in those standards how you want your children measured. this is another example of how we, as americans, have our heads in the sand. because this is not a test of just test poor minority students in urban centers. this is 30,000 of america's students. 30,000 of american students so poorly on this examination the best of them only got 20%. >> let's talk ab

steve perry, good to see you, as always. looking forward to the special. thanks so much. it is coming up a, 2:30 eastern time right here on cnn. right now, it's time for me to hand it over to ron kuby in for fredricka. this is where i hand these your way. >> you want me to throw those away for you? you're out of here. >>> we're going to begin with the trial that has captivated the nation, casey anthony. the young mother in floor accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee back in 2008. court is in session again today. much of the testimony is focused on microscopic evidence found in the trunk of casey anthony's car. let's bring in sean laven who's outside the court for us in orlando. get us up to speed on what happened in court because saturday court is so unusual, generally speaking. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. today was an intense day for forensic testing. the defense brought in this whole new theory of the car trunk and the possible dead body in the trunk. today they brought in a forensic expert from the fbi. she told the jurors why she thinks that caylee's

cnn education contribute for steve perry sat down with him. >> in a small office, he's using simple lingoconcepts. >> if this does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion. >> the tutorials are free to anyone, anywhere. sal, you have sound the answer man. >> hopefully. we've got a lot of work to do. >> you've opened up the world of learning to the world. >> the best way to get to the core of most issues, whether it's poverty, health care, whatever, is just -- even democracy, is making sure you have an educated population. so the technology is making it so that the delivery cost of that education is going pretty close to zero. >> dean uses khan academy as a tool for homeschooling his two children. >> what i like about it is you can work at your own pace. then pause it, rewind it, watch it multiple times. >> and with khan, you have to master all the material before moving on, with only hints to help you. >> if you're struggling with something in a regular school and you don't get it, but you take the test, and you get a c on the test. >> can't move on with a c here. >> that's right. >>

we are going to watch the cnn educator contributor principal steve perry attempts to help one teen who mentioned the special we're going to mention it again "education make-over" airs tomorrow at 2:30 eastern. >>> computers are hard to come by in many poor communities and that's creating a so-called digital divide. it's leaving many people without the skills to survive in the it 21st century job market. there is a new program that may help close that gap. randi kaye has the story in today's "what matters." >> reporter: christopher bradley is an eighth grader with a vision. >> i want to become an architect. >> reporter: not every student at this atlanta school has the resources they need to succeed. >> many of our students do not have access to computers. if they do have computers they may not have access to the internet at home. >> reporter: this year, however, students got some much-needed help. their own personal computer. thanks to a new program called learning without walls. >> the learning without walls program was really developed as a pilot project to ensure equal and affordable

steve perry shows us how it works in this week's "perry's principles." >> in a small silicone valley is using simt illustrations and lingo to explain math, science, history and even business concepts. >> if this does not blow your mind, then you have emotion. >> reporter: the 10 to 20-ming ut tutorials are free to anyone anywhere. >> the best way to get to the core of most issues, whether poverty, health care, whatever, is just making -- even democracy, making sure you have an educated population. >> dean uses it as a tool for home schooling his two children. >> what i like about it and what i think the kids like about it is you can work at your own pace, if they don't understand it, they can pause and rewind: if you're struggling with something in a you're strugglin something in a regular school, you don't get it, you take the test and get a c. you move on. >> richard is a fifth grade teacher in california. he uses courses to track their skunt. >> it allows them to know their students well, their strengths and weaknesses. >> it's backed by bill gates and google. >> you know, if they

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education contributor and high school principal steve perry explains. >> he had no idea a paint brushlife. he moved from guinea in west africa to new york city when he was ten. >> what is the reason you came to the u.s.? >> a better education, my mother thought that i would have better opportunity to just succeed in life. >> he had a hard time fitting in at school. he didn't speak english, kept to himself, and eventually started hanging with the wrong crowd. then he found public color. >> i basically came every day. >> the nonprofit puts paint brushes in the hand of students to brighten up schools, neighborhoods and low-income areas across new york city. >> color has huge power. >> ruth shueman founded public color 15 years ago with the idea that color can positively affect attitudes and behaviors. >> so in these places where you change the color, what impact do you think that has on people? >> the colors that we choose, they're very bright. and like they brighten up a person's mood. >> just a change of color? that does that? >> just a change of color. everything like your whole perce

steve perry is here to weigh in on these disturbing statistics in today's perry's principles.i don't think anyone will be surprised by these numbers. you are particularly saddened by them. why? >> i'm saddened because they persist. no matter how many times we hear it, we act as if it's just part of the way it's supposed to be. it's not. we can save our kids. parents, for instance, one of the things that you can do is spend more on education and less on sports. one season of aau basketball and one pair of jordans could have been enough money to spend on some program to help your child move forward academically. >> are you saying this is more of a cultural problem? >> no. i'm saying that it's the fact that our children, especially students of color, males in particular, attend some of the worst schools in america. i bloev that there's an over feminization. we often punish boys by acting like boys in early education. by the time they're in third or fourth grade, they say i'm not good at school. they go from a krnd garneter who is excited and stoked about school to a kid in the si

summer brain drain and to keep your kids' minds from turning to mush is contributor steve perry.behind. meaning they lose two months of learning during summer break. how do you prevent that? >> quite a few ways. the traditional, which first you can start with your kids' school. ask them for summer reading or summer activities that they think the children should do. summer learning loss is a real issue. you cut two months off because of review. put the exams on there at the end of the year and the middle of the year and you find yourself with a five-month school year that teachers find themselves teaching. it's a chopped-up school year. you want to make sure that the kids have meanings. some traditional ones are going to museums and libraries. go off the beaten path. you can take them to a potential place where they may want to work. if they want to go work in media, they may want to go over to a newspaper and see how that works. >> part of it is making these little assignments, which is a really good idea for parents. have the kids -- you don't want to sit there and make them do

on the team today is jennifer hutt and steve perry. i'll ask both of you.unt, do you think? >> i think 10% is fair. any more than that is too much. the kids have so much homework, it's impossible to get it all done. we need to limit how much homework is given. >> steve, what do you say to that? >> i think that's a joke. i think when you have a teacher who has an expertise in which they understand what the children didn't accomplish for today and what they need to accomplish for tomorrow and the teachers are being held accountable for what the people know, we need to begin to let the teachers lead. we say we want the most from our children yet our country's schools are in the bottom. >> hold on a minute, you're saying the teachers are worrying that they're going to be held accountable for what the kids are learning or not learning and therefore the children should do more homework? i've got to disagree with you there, steve, respectfully, because i think the important learning should go on during the day in the classroom. and if a little homework can reinfor

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steve perry is one of the critics of the naacp's action.rd, connecticut. he joins us now. capital prep is not a charter school? >> no, i run a public school. i have never worked in a charter school. i'm an advocate of school choice. i'm an advocate of children having access to quality education, the education that makes the most amount of sense to them. and the naacp has become a jobs program. what they're doing is they've come into bed with the teachers union for one purpose. that's to protect teachers' that's to protect teachers' jobs, not the children, but some companies are worried. some, not so much. thanks to a network that secures it all and knows what to keep in, and what to keep out. outsmart the threats. see how at cisco.com cisco. . . >>> the u.s. military did not say how they died. iraqi security officials saying there was a rocket attack on a u.s. military base in baghdad. yemen teetering on the brink of civil war. thousands taking to the streets to celebrate the departure of president ali abdullah saleh. he fled to saudi arabi

next call on rick perry. steve from indiana. caller: rick perry, that is ridiculous. he wants to succeed from the union and all this stuff, but if the people want to elect a republican, go ahead, and you will lose your medicare, social security, you will lose everything because they do not care anything about the normal people. all they care about are the rich, and if you vote in the rich, and if you vote in the republican, then we will be like mexico one of these days. host: body on the line for republicans. -- bobby on the line for republicans. caller: i heard several people from texas call in, which much beat the handful of people that voted for obama that live in texas. most people supported a republican president, and most people voted for rick perry. as far as whether he would do a good job, he would. he has the credentials. the state has run well. we have added jobs. we are not in the hole from a housing standpoint. all those things that have happened have happened while he was in office. the rules that we passed here were loss were that you could not borrow mo

today's republican leadership conference in new orleans been speakers will include rick perry, rains. thus, steve russell, following highlights from the conference, former national-security advisor brent scowcroft on u.s. foreign policy. >> c-span has launched a new easy-to-navigate web site for politics in the 2012 presidential race with the list c-span events from the campaign trail. visit us at c-span daughter are/campaign 2012 -- at c- span.org/campaign 2012. saturday was the final day of the 2011 leadership conference. coming up, we will show you a number of speeches from this conference. beginning now with the governor. . he is reported considering a run for president. the recovery comes as a result of individuals doing the hard work and making things happen. [applause] unfortunately, this administration in washington that is in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need but is the most qualified to make essential decisions for every american in every area. that that mix of arrogance and audacity that guides the obama administration is an affront to ever

obama impersonator, reggie brown, retired lieutenant colonel steve russell, and texas governor and potential presidential candidate rick perry. at 7:00 a.m. eastern, "washington journal," with today's calls and see spends " newsmakers" to that. -- after that. on "washington journal," presidential politics in reaction to presidential politics at the republican leadership conference. then a former cia analyst at 20 years talks about the al-qaeda operation since the death of osama bin laden and the airport economist chief economist looks at the breakdown of airline fees. the airlines made $5.7 billion in revenues from those fees. >> the c-span coverage of the national cable telecommunications cable show continues today at 5:15 p.m. eastern. julius genachowski is interviewed by the former fcc chairman michael palle who held -- who heads the ncta. then they look ahead to next year's presidential election with david axelrod and former national committee chairman for the republicans, ed gillespie. >> the time ordered the world when i was growing up. >> page one producer andrew rossi looks at the newspaper industry. >> came into it

speakers include potential presidential candidate rick perry, mike mcalister, and retired colonel steve russell who commanded the u.s. unit that captured set down hussein. another look at national security adviser brent scowcroft on u.s. foreign policy in north africana and the middle east appeared later, a house hearing on the radicalization of the american muslim community in u.s. prisons. >> this week on "the communicators," we talked to michael powell about telecommunications issues and his transition from the sec chairman to his current leadership role as head of the cable industry association. it airs every monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> mr. president, thank you very much. i feel deeply honored to be nominated to become the 20 director of the central intelligence agency. >> with the senate confirmation hearing scheduled for this thursday, learn more about general david petreaus during is more than 50 appearances on line at the c-span video library with more than 15,000 people and every c-span program since 1987, for all searchable and free. it is washington your way. >

perry. u.s. senate candidate in fatah mike mcalester, and former retired lieutenant colonel steve russell who commanded the u.s. army unit that captured some hussain. -- some who same -- saddam hussain. >> andrew rossi looks at the changing newspaper industry and takes an inside look at the "new york times" from the eyes of the staff. >> i came into it with a grand sort of sense of what the solutions are for traditional media. i came in with a desire, really, just to observe. >> you will talk about his new documentary sunday night on c- span a "q&a. well -- "q&a." >> brent scowcroft gave a speech john u.s. foreign policy of the national press club here in his remarks followed a presentation of the 24th journalism awards. this is an hour. >> it just so happens that our club has enjoyed a close association with the 34th president of united states and his legacy print general ford spoke at this podium a record 18 times. he appeared before, during, and after his presidency. this is one example of how he enjoyed cordial but a corporate relationship with the press. it is a tribute to president ford that many