Guests:
Arne Duncan: Sec. of Education
Randi Weingarten: President AFT
Michelle Rhee
Jamie Oliver
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Amanpour: Good morning - American kids perform worse than kids from Azerbijian but we’re still kicking Somalia’s ass - I think
Audience: yay
Amanpour: don’t worry America a former pro-basketball player is on the case
Amanpour: Arne what’s your plan to put U.S.
kids ahead of Estonia?
Duncan: we need to pay teachers based on how
well kids do
Amanpour: do you hate teachers?
Duncan: no I love teachers in general just not specifically
Weingarten: you have to look at teacher performance data in context
Duncan: it empowers teachers by publishing data
on how well their kids do
Amanpour: Michelle are you getting rid of
deadwood teachers
Rhee: we now evaluate teachers based on their kids scores and if they can recite the pledge of allegiance and how much chalk they use
Amanpour: the teachers contract is very thick and it makes it difficult to fire bad teachers
Weingarten: hey states with teachers unions do really well
Amanpour: yeah but we need to get rid of the bad teachers - that will save America
Weingarten: well fine - let’s improve teacher evaluation but let’s also admit teachers want to do well and teachers are not the real problem
Duncan: we have get kids ready for a college education they can’t possibly afford
Rhee: the best teachers will get a bonus and they really stupid ones will have to go into investment banking or on Fox news
Duncan: teachers need to know science like how early man celebrated Christmas by riding
to the edge of the earth on dinosaurs
Weingarten: we could base Arne Duncan’s pay
on his performance
Duncan: um now hold on a minute
Weingarten: Finland teaches kids better than we do
Amanpour: well sure it’s dark 10 months a year
Rhee: we need aggressive principals who are will kick some teacher ass
Duncan: we’ve dumbed down education standards for years and the result is Dancing with the Stars
and the Glen Beck rally
Amanpour: good point
[ break ]
Amanpour: we have an obesity problem in America because public school food makes kids fat
Kessler: the brains of millions of Americans are being hijacked by fat and ignorance
Amanpour: enough about Rush Limbaugh
Amanpour: 1 in 3 American kids are fat and the British kids are weighed in stones
Oliver: the solution is not rocket science -
just eat healthier
Amanpour: but people love junk food
Oliver: sure - fries are delicious
Amanpour: so can you succeed?
Oliver: yes and healthy food raises test scores
Amanpour: what can Congress do?
Oliver: they can pass a bill to spend $4 billion and save $100 billion; save millions of lives and make
the nation more competitve
Amanpour: so your saying it’s far-sighted and a no-brainer
Oliver: right
Amanpour: and you expect it to get through Congress?
Oliver: I educated people in West Virginia and if I can do it there I can do it on Capitol Hill
Amanpour: David Letterman says crappy food is Big Business so you can’t succeed
Oliver: He may be right but McDonald’s changed in Europe due to public pressure - in England they make healthy food and in France they have the ‘Royale with cheese’
Amanpour: awesome
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