it's been changed from the sunni to the zaidi one. inside the mosque, gunmen were guarding the new houthi imam but he was preaching tolerance. >> al ahmad: some local residents told me the new imam wasn't as popular. (voice on telephone) okay, yeah. we went in search of the ousted sunni imam, nabil iskandar. he says the houthis told him to leave the mosque and his home of 14 years. >> al ahmad: i also wanted to talk to the caretaker of the mosque to see how he felt about the change of imam. but the houthi gunmen didn't want us to film. >> al ahmad: we tried to interview the caretaker outside the mosque instead. >> al ahmad: but the houthi gunmen followed us and tried to take our footage. >> al ahmad: we were detained by the houthis for four hours. they erased some of our footage. local human rights groups say they are becoming more oppressive. they accuse them of assassinating and torturing opponents. (car horns honking) i went to look for the family of wathah al hitari, a pharmacist who was shot and killed by a man with known links t

and a ph.d in economics from berkeley, farhan zaidi's resume reads like a better fit for the world bank than major league baseball. but after ten years with the oakland athletics, zaidi is now the new general manager of the los angeles dodgers, and the first muslim general manager of any major american sports franchise. >> it's not something i wake up every morning and you know think about. you know, like i'm going into work today as the you know first muslim-american general manager in professional sports. i think that's probably the first time i've said it out loud. >> reporter: it's a big deal. >> yeah, i'm proud of it but i know i'm such a small part of what, you know i hope happens in our sport and sports in general. which is, you know i don't think baseball or any sport belongs to anyone or any one group of people. >> reporter: while many will see zaidi's achievement as a breakthrough, for him it is the fruition of an impossible dream for a boy born to pakistani parents in canada, and raised in the philippines. >> if you ask me what my dream job was i would have said, "working for

and fighting with the houthis, who are zaidies. there's a difference between how extreme or fundamental they are, but now the situation is such that sectarianism is playing a big role in what is happening in yemen. salah is relying on what was called the yemeni army almost in its entirety they belong to him, are loyal, they maintain the bases and the levy weapons. >> from what you are saying it sounds like it will take foom for this saudi coalition to have any effect -- it will take some time for this saudi coalition to have an effect in yemen. it's been going for a couple of weeks. what sort of effect will it have in dismantling these forces. >> it will take time. air campaigns do not usually decide what is happening on the ground. they can weaken the defenses and air bases and dominate the air, but you need an organised ground army to do the job on the ground. that is the question. we don't see centralized leadership for the other camp for the hardy camp. we don't see it happening. there are tribes and each is leading its own cam

test and zaidi affects 25 to 40% of test takers. that's strong enough to affect the results. what you're really looking at is the performance of people who aren't affected by anxiety and those who are affected by anxiety but are no way worse achievers. achievers. were missing out on a ton of talent and were telling successful people wrong messages about who they are what they're good at. >> i have one kid whose quiet and is very comfortable testing and a superhigh tester but all three of my kids are in relatively similar grades but for different reasons didn't test the same. >> i talk about negative test talking and how the brain gets stronger like a muscle. both of those things are tips that people can take. those techniques make you better at other things too, not just taking tests. >> don't you almost have to start with the sat and the act? when i think of all this testing i think gosh i hate they're taking all this test, on the other hand they're gonna need a lot of practice once they get up to those big tests and it's so essential to them moving on. >> that's a really in

there are some zaidis or pro pro-houthis there. >> but the ufghtsz houthis the houthis are being pushed out by these coalition air strikes. how long do you think they can hold before they have to retreat back to sanaa and their stronghold to the north? >> i'll be honest adrian, the houthis are not coming back from aden. they cannot attack aden to retreat a couple of weeks later. hundreds of thousands of i could say tens of thousands of fighters, to ensure that they have have aden. they will thought complete go of aden this will be a long term war, and when it comes to aden, according to one of the top officials i met yesterday quowlt they have no possible way of retreat whit comes to aden. >> akim.a. bate, thank you. having taken aden he says the houthis are not going to do it. >> they are besieged they will not turn back. they are just trapped like a mouse. that's the truth. they did not come from the north to invade aden. they were in aden for a long time ago because of that being games ever ali abdullah sally r of ali abdullah saleh. they were there. they are on the run being hit and

five question a day for a year knowing zaidi, this is a low steak game and the importance of the question could change from student to student to get a more adoptive model. you can you can cover many topics in many ways to learn more about what they know, and they're also looking at as a next level to this, could a teacher create an activity that would satisfy that question or that construct such that you wouldn't have to ask these given questions but you can have a teacher created assessment. it takes a really, some of the software doesn't necessarily make for better teaching and learning but when you get these mines on a problem, as long as you have unified mines i think there's interesting potential there. >> i didn't realize that a lot of this is about how much can i know but it's not how much are you teaching me to think or to see that and think about it this way, and this way way, and this way and bring this in. is there anything that's developing that part? >> test creators have been in credibly creative and coming up with rubrics to define what that means. and what i mean by that

, it is sunni against shia, they may forget that back in the 1960's the saudis were supporting the zaidihiite royalists against the nasserists. there are other interests at play. be wary of those who try to boil it down to one issue -- sectarian, persian, this or that. there are a lot of factors in play and it is what makes diplomacy so interesting and difficult at the same time. barbara: in yemen it is a former -- in yemen it is an effort by the former president to return to power and get revenge on the saudis who have tried 4 times to eliminate him and failed. iran plays a role but probably ali abdullah saleh and the yemeni military plays a bigger role. this is a quote from a former secretary of state, "diplomacy is the art of getting the other guy to have your way." it is best practiced with adversaries, indeed. and the french, i'm not sure which they are. >> my name is jim. barbara: welcome. i was not -- >> i was not physically present because i was sitting in my car listening on c-span radio. the world affairs council deserves a major shout out for an extraordinarily timely and subs

one of our greatest sources foreign zaidi for for anxiety is worrying about weathering their kids are in a high-quality learning program. the ability to ensure that they can go to work and do the things they need to do, it is not just a whole child -- it is whole family that benefits from high-quality early learning. >> national center for learning disabilities here. you spoke a little bit about inclusion can you speak about screening for students who might not have a parent with learning disabilities. and the effects of poverty as a neurological cause. >> one of the things we are doing again with our federal preschool development grant is systemizing formative assessments for the kids in this program. our teachers will be able to go in and take a look and see how these kids are performing on a whole host of issues including social emotional, math literacy. we are hoping to learn from that some of the things you just talked about -- what our true learning disabilities? how are they improving over the course of the year as they enter kindergarten? >> more questions for the panel? >> hi