. >> ifill: in your own experience as a teacher,ul wdo y that the level of community support and involvementin yourchoo ,lis high, medium or low? 21% of you said high. 24% said medium. 55% said low. ouch. was that your sense that there is not enough community engagement in our schools? >> well i think there isn't. and certainly we can influence both the kids and the community if we're given that opportunity. and in this country today, what we're focusing on instead is, can you answer a multiple choice test instead of how do we make you love education? how do we get you to feel that this is something that is meaningful to you? if we don't do that, the rest of this is a waste of time. >> ifill: throughout our hour- long conversation >> ifill: throughout our hour long conversation, those st. louis teachers repeatedly touched on concerns that resonate nationally. john bridgeland has written widely about it, and his organization, civic enterprises, is a partner in the american graduate project. he joins us now. a sense of the scope, the magnitude of this problem. >> gwen, more than a million youn