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The U.S. has one of the worst high school drop-out rates in the industrialized world and many fear current education standards hurt the country's competitiveness. What the Obama administration, educators, and reform advocates think are the best ways to improve education in America.
Melody Barnes, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and special assistant to President Obama
Lily Eskelsen, vice president, National Education Association
Frederick Hess, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute
Dianne Piche, executive director, Citizen's Commission for Civil Rights
The third largest newspaper chain in the U.S. is slashing sixteen-hundred jobs, while an increasing number of newspapers are closing or moving online. The state of the news industry, whether newspapers are necessary, and how you may get your news in the future.
Leonard Downie, is Vice President at Large for The Washington Post Company.
David Folkenflik, is Media Correspondent at NPR News.
Alan Mutter, is a former newspaper editor who later ran three Silicon Valley companies. He comments on the impact of technology on the media at his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur, at newsosaur.blogspot.com.
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