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The Teaser for Monday, September 27, 2010
"The Teaser” is a preview of the guests we have lined up for the next day – so you know when to tune in (and when to set your alarm!). Guests and times are always subject to change.
6:20AM Max Kellerman, CNN Contributor, on rising ticket prices in the NFL. The average ticket price for professional football games increased 4.5 percent this year to $76.47, even as some teams struggled to fill every seat.
6:40AM Chase Benzenberg and Alessandro Albero, Passengers on Delta Flight 4951, on what happened when the flight they were on made an emergency landing Saturday night at JFK airport. The men will share video they shot during the event.
7:10AM Jim Rutenberg and Jeff Zeleny, National Political Correspondents, The New York Times, on Sunday’s front page piece in the Times on the "shadow" Karl Rove and other Republican heavy-hitters are building to raise money and beat the Democrats in the 2010 mid-terms – and beyond.
7:40AM Rick Scott, (R) Florida Gubernatorial Candidate, on his plan to attract moderate Republicans and Independents to beat his Democratic opponent Alex Sink.
8:10AM Lisa Miller, Senior Editor at Newsweek, on her cover story on the “Mama Grizzlies” Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Nikki Haley and Michele Bachmann. What defines a “Mama Grizzly” and where do they stand on the issues? How will they define the upcoming election?
8:40AM Davis Guggenheim, Director "Waiting for 'Superman'", on the state of the public education system and its failings. Find out why he took on this latest project and what surprised him the most.
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$100 million: Will it make a difference in Newark?
If you had a spare $100 million, what is the one thing you would do? Well, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and TV queen Oprah Winfrey are getting together today to hand over that amount to help to give a fighting chance to inner city kids in Newark, New Jersey, which has a troubled public schools system.
Newark is a city where 46% of students fail to graduate and only 20% go on to attend a four-year college. So is giving this school system $100 million really going to make a difference? Steve Perry, CNN education contributor and principal and founder of Capital Preparatory magnet school, and David Kirkpatrick, author of "The Facebook Effect", weigh in:
John Roberts: The premiere of "The Social Network" [a movie about Zuckerberg and the birth of Facebook] is out tonight. Is he trying to fight back against that image?
David Kirkpatrick: This can't be a complete coincidence. Clearly the movie that premieres tonight and opens nationwide next week, which really does portray him unflatteringly is something he's not happy about. It cannot be a complete coincidence that the first time he's ever come out of the gate and basically done anything related to anything other than Facebook is exactly when the movie's coming out. On the other hand, I do believe he really does believe in education and I think probably what happened was, you know, this is something he's been talking about for a long time with a sort of vague aim to counter the image problem with the movie. The fact it ends up coming on the exact same day that the movie premieres has got to have been an uncomfortable coincidence that even he didn't want.
Steve Perry: This is not about the founder of Facebook. For me, it's about academics and about what happens in the schools, and we've been throwing money at the problem for a long time. I'm going to applaud the fact he's giving the money but in terms of performance, creating a better academic experience, if money were the issue, then prisons would be the most effective place to send children because that's where we spend the most money. It's about transforming the way in which we operate public education.
Communal homeschooling on the rise
By Carol Costello and Bob Ruff, CNN
“Isabelle, you're next. What card do you need to add to 10 to get what?"
Grade schooler Isabelle Hannon is learning how to add and subtract, but not in a classroom. She’s outdoors, at a beautiful Stillwater, Oklahoma park. She and her sister, Alyssa, are being taught not by a professional teacher but by their mom. And they’re not alone. The Franklin kids are there, too, along with their mom and dad who are also acting as teachers.
Welcome to homeschooling 2010. It’s no longer a solitary exercise for many parents: it’s communal. Many families are now sharing ideas about teaching and taking turns as teachers. In effect, they’re creating their own “shadow schools.”
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First class of Urban Prep's seniors all college-bound
(CNN) – Chicago's Urban Prep charter school launched with a mission: to get more African-American teens back in school and send them on to college. The school's founder says over half of the black males in the city's public schools drop out before finishing high school, and only one in 40 will get a college degree. But now, every single member of Urban Prep's first-ever graduating class has been admitted to a four-year college or university. The school's founder and CEO, Tim King, joined us on Tuesday's American Morning to tell us how they did it, along with one member of this year's graduating class, Cameron Barnes.
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