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principal steve perry is a cnn educator.ll and founder of capital pep magnet school. he joins our panel from hartford. usually we're talking about education policy. i have to imagine though when you see that unfolding you have to think about your school. >> rocks me to my core to think about one of my kids who i welcome every day coming in and hurting some of my other kids, to the point where it kills them. it's a frightening thing that, honestly, can't be stopped, but can be -- the folks in chardon did an amazing job of making sure the rest of the children were safe. >> there was a young man i was talking to, nick mueller, one of the things he was telling me was sort of the description of the shooter. it's honestly, almost like a cliche, you know, expressionless, didn't really say anything. here's what he said. >> tell me a little bit about him. >> he was a quiet kid in the past three years. but back in middle school he was always really nice and funny. and he was like one of us, one of the guys. and he was a normal kid, an

steve perry is a cnn contributor. magnet school and the focus of a documentary that we did "black in america 2." now many, many years ago. steve, nice to see i. they were ranked number 11 among liberal arts colleges, and the inflating, you know, brought them to number nine. 11 to nine. you know, what does a college get out of a two-point leap like that? >> a lot. to go -- to become top 10 in the country, they get a lot. as a matter of fact, these colleges are competing for their share of the billions of dollars in tuition and state grants and private contributions. they want to make sure they get your money, so they need to prove that they're the best. and in many of the private small colleges, they cannot go and create a compelling athletics program that is going to draw attention to their school, so they have to do something. so they cheated. >> so how widespread is it? i know a lot of this sort of relies on self reporting, which means it could be rife with cheating. is it rife with cheating? >> i don't know, and i

steve perry is live with us. no music today, steve? what's with that, in be one?eepily. >> i'm going to be nicer to you today. some people think that when we fight we are arguing. good idea or bad idea? >> it's a bad idea. number one, because it's not sustainable and two because it doesn't work. one of the biggest study done by roland frey is inconclusive. what he found in a later paper is that there are five characteristics that do make for successful schools, and none of them are paying kids. >> you know, sometimes when they do a spin on that, when they pay kids to read books, right, a certain numbers of dollars per book, or there's a study in chicago where they paid kids -- it improved tapdance. attendance. maybe not test scores. but what is wrong with that? i think middle class kids get paid sometimes in cash and sometimes in you get to go to ballet class or drive mom's car. why is this bad morally? >> that's not payment. and you can say whether it's moral -- i don't know if it's a moral issue as much as the fact is here is a school that is purported to have a

here to give the final grade is cnn's education contributor, steve perry.rom fourth to eighth grade math and english. why do you think it was a good idea? >> i think it's a good idea because parents need to understand who it is that's educating their children. very often one of the things that parents are looking for are who are the best teachers are in the school. and the best teachers provide the grades that are the most accurate. more specifically, when you spend your kids to a low performing school, and they have an a average, most schools don't see that as an a average. so parents need to know who is adding the most value to your child's academic life. >> but there are so many problems with this test. first of all, about a quarter of the teachers aren't even teaching anymore. also the people who created the very test they are grading on say there's a 35% to 53% margin of error. 53% margin of error. i mean, that's just the start. they say that, you know, there are errors, emissions. they didn't even calculate and count in charter schools. to me, it seem

that's steve perry's tunes.ighted in yellow. president obama talked about changing that when he delivered his state of the union address. here's what he said. >> when students are not allowed to drop out, they do better. so tonight i am proposing that every state, every state requires that all students stay in high school until they graduate or turn 18. >> so the debate's picked up some steam again this week. an editorial in "usa today", i think it was, backs what the president calls for. some people say it is not far enough. steve perry is the cnn education contributor. we did a documentary, back in america 2 was done on his school. nice to see you. good morning to you. so if you change the dropout age as the president's suggesting to 18 or just never, you're not allowed to drop out, do you think that would make a real difference? >> i don't know that it will make a lot of difference. you can't force a kid to stay in school. we have a kid right now who's a senior who's doing all he can to drop out. we're sendin

but as education contributor steve perry explains the challenge comes down to spending the money. >>he rest of the world is going to school longer than the american children. one of the reasons why is we made it too expensive to spend the children to school year round. the buildings run whether we are in them or not. is it the administrators and the teachers they get paid more if they work a longer year. to pay them more would mean we would not be able to run a longer jeer year. we need our teachers to understand that our schools need to go longer not just longer for longer's sake but longer to give children to have a deeper dive in academics. the question becomes when will we decide we will run those schools in this country? you know what's exciting, graduation. when i look up into my student's faces, i see pride. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor, i am committed to making a difference in peoples lives and i am a phoenix. i refer to her as "that woman with the gre

all of that in this "perry's principles" and cnn's contributor and school principal steve perry has somehat are we doing today to prepare the children in schools, understanding the markets and economy better to prepare the children of tomorrow? >> there's a lot that's expected of us as educators. in preparation for the standardized tests there is nothing to teach children about the markets and as a result we don't. there are some teachers who take it upon themselves in certain schools to do something with it. there are opportunities there, but there's very little that we're doing. this is where parents come in. you guys can talk about what you think is important. not just to your own child, but you can come to the school and offer after-school activities, come volunteer and tell us what you think we need to know about the markets. at the end of the day, we're educators. we're not professionals in the markets. so we could use your help. either as a parent or a member of that profession who can come in and help our school out. you know what's exciting, graduation. when i look up into my st

steve perry shares his thoughts. >> i don't know that there's any particular way to stop people froming on examinations. the fact that the department of education would request our input on what should be done in our schools i think is the best way to do it. i applaud the secretary for reaching out to both experts, quote, unquote, and parents and other people in the community to ask them for their opinion on a way in which to solve a problem. i don't think that this represents that the government is out of options. we are the government. it's we, the people. ultimately, education is a local issue. so local as best served to the parents, students and faculty at that stul. so the government, as it were, the federal government, should ask for the opinion of community when it comes to the decisions that will impact their children. >> okay. i have some information for you so i hope you're able to write this down. if have you suggestions to help cheating in our schools, visit regulations.gov and search for ed-2012-oese. the education department will be accepting your comments and suggestio

cnn's education contributor steve perry weighs in on the government's campaign. >> reporter: i don'tw that there is any particular way to stop people from cheating on examinations. the fact that the department of education would request our input on what should be done in our schools i think is the best way to do it. i applaud the secretary for reaching out to both experts, quote/unquote, and parents and other people in the community to ask them for their opinion on a way in which to solve a problem. i don't think that this represents that the government is out of options. we are the government. it is we the people. ultimately education is a local issue. so local as best served to the parents, students, and faculty at that school. so the government, as it were, the federal government should ask for the opinion of the community when it comes to the decisions that will impact their children. >> music industry types and millions of fans took time this weekend to remember don cornelius. and he would have loved this. a soul train line up and down broadway. dons tos an artist who says she

steve perry is a cnn contributor and a founder and principal of the magnet school in hartford connecticutd the teachers regular new friend and follow their students. he says this is something that parents should be doing as well. >> parents need to take the time to another student password. they need to know all their passwords on all their accounts and they need to take great liberty to go in and look at them. if you want privacy, get a diploma, get a degree and move out. >>reporter: a study has found that it is common for young people to post on facebook about being depressed. so when should a comment be taken seriously? i asked a psychologist? >> if you just discount this, been tragedy could occur. to me, it is always better if you overreact and you are wrong, isn't that a better situation than to not react in half some tragedy occurred? >>james: prosecutors said they he will likely be tried as an adult. >>justine: let us take a live look outside right now. we can see rain on the road. when will this stop? we will take a break and be right back. >>james: based on chaser capt. this vide

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, for example, yesterday we were talking about innovating solutions in education yesterday with steve perry certainly cover that. i do think you're not talking about $230,000, which is a drop in the bucket in terms of education. you're talking $9 million in 2009. you're talking $6 million, this year. >> deserves attention but does it deserve five minutes on cnn. >> now we're taking it seven by the conversation. >> people's airwaves. there are so many other stories that deserve more attention. and i do think that this is part of the sort of pneumatic government bashing in a way. this is a serious problem. should be exposed. >> debate. i disagree with you. i've had many of these conversations because when we do documentaries, what do you spend your time on? you have an hour. my theory was you owe it to do all. expand the number of stories, especially a lot of stuff that i focused on was race. people say, do you do positive stories about latinos or crime and poverty and what do you do? >> exposing. you need exposing of abuse. but there are such abuses in this country and in the world. >> i'm g

it is perry 8. i am steve chenevey. >> i am cynne simpson. fauquier county schools are closed. there's a snowstorm working its way towards the nation's capital. we could get a taste of winter by lunchtime. adam caskey is watching that. first, lisa baden is watching the boats. >> first, new york avenue. an accident since the 1:00 hour. between florida avenue and penn street, new york avenue is closed in both directions. now live picture from northbound 95 -- let's go to the beltway first because of an accident in montgomery county. outer loop at colesville road. one lane into the left and one lane to the right. those are getting through and around the accident. traffic getting away from us in this picture is northbound 7100. >> later this evening we will have some slick spots. wet roads for the drive home and some sidestreets could get a coating of snow. 34 degrees in clarksburg, la plata at the freezing mark, 28 in berkeley springs. upper 30's for midday high temperatures. wintry mix expected around lunchtime locally. changing to snow through the drive home. locally we will see

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perry 13. i am cynne simpson. >> i am steve chenevey. glad to be with you. it still feels like winter. there was snow and high winds. the question is, will it stick around? we will find out in a few minutes. first, lisa baden has a check on the roads. >> newschopper 7 is going to annapolis with a collision on 97 north of 50. we will put it that in our next report. 50 right now, no problems between annapolis and cheverly. normal stuff in virginia on 95 and 66. that means an increase in volume, which is what we see in this picture. headlights are northbound out of newington, marching up to the beltway with more of your neighbors. adam caskey now. >> alisa clark on this monday morning. we are tracking cold temperatures outside. in the teens and 20's. a cool start day the workweek. this will be the coldest morning all week. 17 in huntingtown, manassas aldie. 23 and chevy chase and arlington. 21 in la plata. 45 this afternoon. increasing clouds close to sunset. pleasant today. upper level energy tomorrow causes may be a dusting of snow west of the blue ridge. otherwise no accumulations loca

perry." and she's also a professor at -- of political science at tulane. and steve kornacki, political columnist for the salon.com. thank you both for joining me. can republicans win with the message built solely on attacking president obama? >> maybe. you know, and that's part of why they are tactically making this choice. one of my dear colleagues, john aldridge, his theory about why political parties exist is a pretty straightforward theory. and it goes like this. political parties exist in order to elect candidates to office. full stop. and so the republican party at this point when it says our number one goal is to get this president out and to elect a republican is not doing something inherently bad. in other words, it's doing what a party does. i think the problem is exactly as you pointed to in the introduction. if they are willing in the work of, you know, saying we have better ideas. we think we have better candidates, what you can't do is, one, actually work against economic recovery which we've seen this republican party do by cutting public sector jobs

perry 28. i am cynne simpson. -- february 28. >> i am steve chenevey. we start with adam caskey. >> this afternoon temperatures will be similar to yesterday. 39 right now no twisty see. 38 in herndon. 43 and triangle. mainly 30's northwest of town. low 30's in western maryland and west virginia. berkeley springs, 33. frostburg, 26. low to mid-40s to the south and east. king george checking in at 45. here is the forecast, bright sunshine, 52. light northwesterly winds, not as dusty as yesterday. increasing clouds tonight in advance of the next storm system that will affect us tomorrow if with areas of rain. near 50 degrees wednesday. >> looks pretty good on 95 between rich madera and baltimore. all clear right now as far as travel times. still working in our favor. looks good in springfield and onto the beltway to tysons or over to the alexandria wilson bridge and on to 395. a live picture is northbound traffic headlights. red in the next camera is southbound on 270 approaching the beltway. uneventful over to the mormon temple and across the american leg

steve: gotta love prudd. >> jimmy: she's a terrific actress. we're happy to have her visiting the show. from tyler perry's," gabrielle union is dropping by. [ cheers and applause ] the dudes love her. she's good. >> steve: in deed. and of course, a performance by the cast of "sister act!" [ cheers and applause ] it's gonna be crazy. broadway week all week. >> steve: broadway week! >> jimmy: then we'll go over to sardi's, grab a drink. >> steve: grab a little drink -- >> jimmy: everyone gets a drink over at sardi's. hey, guys, today's friday. it's usually when i catch up on some personal stuff. i check my inbox. i return some e-mails. and of course, i send out "thank you notes." [ cheers and applause ] i was running a little bit behind today so i thought, if you guys wouldn't mind, i'd just like to write out my weekly "thank you notes" right now. is that cool? thank you so much. [ cheers and applause ] hey roots, can i get some "thank you note" writing music, please? ♪ [ laughter ] >> steve: what? what?! >> jimmy: james, you just got a colonoscopy, right? how'd that go? [ laughter ] he's lost his mind. >>

celebrities expected to be there, fred, the list of people we've con fermd includes tyler perry, aretha franklin, clive davis, stevewonder, alicia keys and dionne warwick all expected to be there in newark, new jersey, at the new hope baptist church tomorrow. >> among those actually performing. aretha franklin for one. are there others? >> there are, yes. some of the names i just mentioned, alicia keys is expected to perform. steve have i wonder is expected to perform. the winans family involved. they were like family to whitney houston and the whole houston family. marvin is giving the eulogy as we know. last night on "showbiz tonight" i spoke to his brother, the grade bebe winans. he told me he and his sister cece will be singing. i asked him what he chose to sing. watch what he told me? >> i'm going to sing a song that i actually wrote for my brother that simply says i'll miss you. i'll miss your smile. i'll miss your whit, your charm, you know? and most of all, most importantly, i'll miss that time that we shared together when there was nothing else to do and there was nowhere else to go. >> yeah. bebe told me

here are some of the names of people we know who will be attending, tyler perry, kevin costner, alicia keys, stevehouston's final hours. some people are saying she was drinking pretty heavily, that she had some erratic behavior. she had well-known battles with addiction. that had to be a real burden for some of her friends and family members, and her daughter, too, who has been talking about it for the past couple of days. rain prior is richard prior's daughter. >> thank you for having me. >> it must be so hard to have a parent who has struggled with an addiction and then on top of it struggled so publicly with an addiction like your father. was that chaos for you? >> it's not that it's chaos. it's in the open. you kind of can learn from it, at least we have. i think us as children have. we decided we'll go a different route, a different path. >> so you wanted to learn from what your dad was dealing with. >> it's not that i wanted to learn, i think i just happened to learn. that's the way it was. it was right in front of us. you have a choice to make. you either follow that path and choose that di

perry and his forgetting of that third reason, the third agency he wanted to get rid of. read between the lines. legislation from mississippi sparked outrage early this week. the bill from democrat stevefor all official purposes within the state of mississippi, the body of water that is located directly south of hancock, harrison, and jackson counties shall be known as the gulf of america." no more gulf of mexico? really? holland's office is faced with a barrage of callers asking just that question. holland is now telling the host of angry critics it was just a joke. apparently holland came up with the ruts to draw attention to a number of republican-backed state bills he feels are too harsh on illegal immigrants. holland says he's tickled that his satire was lost on so many people. some of his republican colleagues were less than amused by the trick if it was a trick. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. up next, "your business" with j.j. ramberg. online datrvices can get kind of expensive. so to save-money, i found a new way to get my profile out there. check me out. everybody says i've got a friendly disposition and they love my spinach dip. 5 foot ten. still doing

you know melissa harris-perry, who will be starting a new weekend show next weekend. we are excited about that. also, stevearia. we are expecting results from maine to be announced in about 45 minutes. it was also a big day at conservative political action conference in washington where mitt romney won the cpac straw poll and sarah palin gave the convention's keynote address. we'll get to all that in a moment. let's begin in portland, maine, and nbc's ron allen. what do we expect to see tonight? >> reporter: well, we're at ron paul's headquarters, and they're very optimistic and very enthusiastic here. they've been that way all day. we've been to a number of caucus sites. because the numbers are so small here, remember, we're talking about at the end of the day about 5,000 republicans will participate in this process. so you don't need to mobilize millions or tens of thousands of votes. you need to mobilize a small number of people. ron paul, more than any other candidate, has worked this state from the bottom to the top for many weeks now. they think this is really their best chance to pull out a win. cer

perry, and finally read between the lines. legislation from mississippi sparked outrage early this week. the bill from democrat stevehin the state of mississippi, the body of water that is located directly south of hancock, harrison, and jackson counties shall be known as the gulf of america." >> no more gulf of mexico? his office was faced with a barrage of calls. he was saying it was just a joke. he came up with the ruse to draw attention to state bills he feels are too harsh on illegal immigrants. hollins says he's tickled that his satire was lost on so many people. some colleagues were less than amused. >>> up next, how much did the fight between the obama administration and the catholic church hurt president obama with catholic voters? we'll ask our strategists when we come back. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. early stages of cancer and it's something that we're extremely proud of. you see someone who is saved because of this technology, you know that the things that you do in your life, matter. if i did have an opportunity to meet a cancer survivor, i'm sure i could take something positive away from

perry. her new show starts next weekend. we could not be more excited up on the eighth floor. salon's steveca, and maria melissa kumar. coming up next, lock-up.

steve. what do you think? >> it's interesting because there's a basic difference between santorum and, say, newt gingrich or rick perry or any of the others who have been the main challenger for romney. santorum actually knows what he's doing. newt gingrich got hit over and over with ads like that in florida. did you ever see a response ad from newt gingrich like this? when mitt romney came after newt gingrich in the debates, did gingrich ever turn to him and fire back with anything that meant anything to anybody? rick santorum has basic competency in terms of responding in debates and in responding to attack ads. is competence all it takes in the republican primary to beat mitt romney? >> i want to bring in the man behind that ad. john is a top strategist for rick santorum's campaign. good morning. >> good morning. thank you for having me this morning. >> fess up. who got the idea for mitt romney with the machine gun? >> i'll tell you exactly where the idea came from. last week on tuesday, romney put out a press release when things were going bad for him in colorado, minnesota and missouri. the press release basicall

perry and his forgetting of that third reason, the agency he wanted to get rid of. legislation from mississippi sparked outrage early this week. the bill from democrat steveissippi, the body of water that is located directly south of hancock, harrison, and jackson counties shall be known as the gulf of america." no more gulf of mexico? really? his office was faced with a barrage of calls. holland is now telling the host of angry critics it was just a joke. apparently he came up with the ruse to draw attention to a number of republican-backed state bills he feels are too harsh on illegal immigrants. holland says he's tickled that his satire was lost on so many people. some of his republican colleagues were less than amused by the trick if it was a trick. >>> up next, how much did the fight between the obama administration and the catholic church hurt obama with catholic voters? we'll have the "hardball" strategists when we come back. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. ♪ it's nice to be here ♪ it's nice to see you in my bed ♪ ♪ ♪ there are diamonds... [ male announcer ] this is your moment. ♪ ♪ and they sparkle in the night ♪ [ male announcer ] this