Re-evaluating LA Schools Using the 'Value-Added' Method

Last week, the LA Times revealed that the nation's second largest school district had information that could help evaluate teachers, but never used it.  This week, it applied the same information to find that some supposedly good schools aren't so hot after all, and that some "failing" schools are doing better than anyone realized.  We hear from the Times, the teachers' union and an activist parent. Also, Eli Broad, the decider.  On our rebroadcast of To the Point, a disaster in Pakistan that's "changing everything."

Award-winning moderator Warren Olney leads lively, thoughtful and provocative discussion on the issues Southern Californians care about.