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Chancellor again became sole anchor of Nightly News on October 10, 1979, with Brinkley once again providing commentaries until he left nbc news breaking news for ABC News in 1981, where he became host of that network's new Sunday morning interview show This Week. And in our schools, too often kids are given these kind of cardboard passages that are meant to show them what a noun is. Any teacher watching this knows what I’m talking about, that you, in elementary school, in many schools, especially the schools where that gun to the head is already cocked-in the poorest schools, in the schools that teach the most disadvantaged students, students of color, in schools in Harlem-you have to teach students how to take a test. There’s nothing about-you know, I heard Jonathan Kozol speak at the Save Our Schools march, and he said something that really stayed with me. And the thing that gets me is that the, you know, wealthy individuals who promote these policies send their own kids to schools that look nothing like that, where inquiry is promoted, where they don’t spend all day obsessing about how they’re going to do on someone else’s test.

What Secretary Duncan is doing is saying, if you want to get the federal funding, you have to evaluate teachers by test scores, you have to be prepared to close schools. It teaches teachers to jump through these hoops, to not encourage critical thinking. If you're online a lot, you yourself may send a dozen or more emails each day without even thinking about it. The program typically follows an influential business person, including outside of their office, in order to better understand their ways of thinking. Many buildings were designed by Wright and his apprentice draftsman at Taliesin, including Fallingwater, the first Usonian houses and the Johnson Wax building. BRIAN JONES: Well, it depends on the school, but I’ve seen schools that begin right away, that begin the first week of school, where they begin with pretests to try to, you know, tell the kids-if you ask a kid in Harlem-go to any school in Harlem and ask a young elementary school student, "What’s the point of school? BROOKE BALDWIN: What will these schools have to prove, have to offer, to get a waiver? Well, now what more and more schools are doing is teaching the test itself as a genre-that is, studying the features of a test, as you would a novel, or as you would historical fiction or mysteries.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, Diane Ravitch, I want to ask you about the business side of all of this education reform, not only in terms of the testing companies, but increasingly the new wave of reform now is the question of online learning. Can you talk about the pressures on teachers these days with this emphasis on standardized testing and what it means actually to the kind of work that you do? When he talks about improving teacher evaluation, what he really means is Race to the Top things like judging teachers by test scores. Where they’re being very thoughtful and creative around teacher and principal evaluation, we want to work with them. I want to turn to a clip of the interview he recently did on CNN. Where they’re dumbing down standards, reducing them, that’s not a state we want to partner with. Where districts and states are focusing on growth and gain rather than absolute test scores, how much are folks improving, we want to work with them.

BRIAN JONES: Well, to me, the students are cheated even before the test is taken. It teaches all of us that knowledge is somewhere produced by Pearson or by one of these test companies, and you can’t create it, you can’t investigate it, you can’t do any of that. Of course, if you break it, you're buying them a new one. BRIAN JONES: Of course, right. And an administrator came in and said, "You have to stop what you’re doing right now," handed-put down a pile of workbooks and said, "You have to begin doing this right now." I begged her, in front of the students, "Please, let us just finish this experiment right now, in the next few minutes, and then we’ll do that." She said, "No, you have to put all this away right now and get working on the workbooks." So, the kids are cheated ahead of time. We welcome you both back to Democracy Now! They finished with a 13-3 record, beating Carolina 45-17 and also giving running back Darren Sproles the record for most all-purpose yards in a single season. AMY GOODMAN: We have to break, and we’ll come right back. The conclusion I’ve come to is that this kind of approach is absolutely great for entertainment-style products, but actually very dangerous for news-based or informational products.