Forum Post: heard on national news today
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 8, 2011, 7:50 p.m. EST by gestopomilly
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interview with 8 of the brightest and most successfull people in america today.." its the parents fault." "the new generations will fix the mess we left for them" '"if we dont invest in education the nation will fail"
the nation has failed.
Who were the eight interviewees just out of curiosity?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57321031/rhee-todays-kids-must-learn-to-work-hard/?tag=contentBody;cbsCarousel
Included on the panel were Mary Frances Berry, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and former Chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Mick Cornett, Mayor of Oklahoma City and President of the Republican Mayors Association; Michelle Rhee, CEO of StudentsFirst and former Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system; John Bogle, founder of the world's largest mutual fund company, the Vanguard Group; Arturo Vargas, the Executive Director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials; Matthew Segal, co-founder of OurTime.org, an organization focused on empowering youth; Eileen McDonnell, President and CEO of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company; and Dr. Pedro Jose "Joe" Greer, Jr., Assistant Dean of Medicine at Florida International University.