Trapped in Houston Flooding, Skip a Grade, VidAngel Relaunch

Trapped in Houston’s Historic Flooding Guest: Amy Bice Larson, Houston-area resident Across the Houston region, more than two feet of rain fell in the span of Saturday and Sunday. By the end of this week, some parts of the Gulf Coast could get 50 inches of rain. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the rising flood waters, but many, many more remain stuck in their homes and neighborhoods, waiting for the rain to stop and hoping the water doesn’t get any higher. One resident's perspective on the current situation. Officer-in-Residence: More than Just Community Policing Guest: Eric Echevarria, Sergeant, Director of the Resident Officer Program of Elgin (ROPE) In high-crime, high-poverty neighborhoods around the country, police have a trust problem. Officers are often seen as racially biased and uninterested in focusing on the problems the community is most concerned about.  It doesn’t help that most of the time, the police officers typically don’t live in the neighborhoods they patrol. What might change if they did? Police in the city of Elgin, Illinois have found out with their long-running “Resident Officer Program of Elgin” or ROPE. What Good are Standardized Tests? Guest: Christopher Tienken, EdD, Associate Professor of Education Leadership, Management and Policy, Seton Hall University Standardized tests in US schools are not popular. They take up class time and put immense pressure on students and their teachers. But if we want to know how well teachers are teaching and students are learning in school, we have to test them somehow, don’t we? Standardized tests are not the best option, though. Researchers can generally predict how well students will do on standardized tests based entirely on their lives outside of the classroom.   Should My Child Skip a Grade? Guest: Russell Warne, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Utah Valley University Parents of academically gifted children have to wrestle with some of these questions: Should they enroll them in AP and honors classes, have them tak