But the sixth graders demand it.

Fourth graders love their dinosaurs, they memorize them.

I know, you're as bad as the sixth graders.

The sixth graders look at it and they say, No.

But I don't think that'll satisfy the sixth graders either.

And I do put power tools into the hands of second graders.

Now as you can imagine, this is not very popular with fourth graders.

Regarding academic standards in the Territory's public schools, the testing scores for fourth graders and eighth graders in reading comprehension are lower than the national average, according to nationwide tests conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Just the wording of the badging or how many points you get for doing something, we see on a system wide basis, like tens of thousands of fifth graders or sixth graders going one direction or another, depending what badge you give them.

Well, I did this at a school in Boston with about 70 seventh graders, 12 year olds.

We were off by 25 percent. How many eighth graders do you know of who have measured the speed of light?

And I said, Well, if you can find those, I can just reverse them and make what I need to make for the sixth graders.

In fact, two years ago, only 27 percent of all the third through eighth graders were passing the state standard in both English and math.

If Al Gore is here, I'm going to send my fourth graders from Agnor Hurt and Venable schools to you because they solved global warming in a week.

Virgin Island scores were either at or near the bottom of the national scale, with eighth grade students scoring only better than eighth graders from American Samoa.49

AmIhotornot.com everyday 250,000 people go to this site, run by two volunteers, and I can tell you they are hard graders, and they didn't get this way by advertising a lot.

Fourth graders understand it nine years old and they handle that and use that to understand how to, not follow at first they do the paths to power and destruction, the path to war.

The problem then becomes how do you take seventh and eighth graders to a talk about genocide and deal with the subject in a way that is responsible and respectful, and they know what to do with it.

John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4'x5' plywood board and lets his 4th graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches spontaneous, and always surprising go further than classroom lectures can.

Today, some community college students have to quit school because their textbooks cost more than their tuition and today, some third graders have to share math texts because there aren t enough to go around. But imagine a world where textbooks and other learning materials are available to everyone for free over the Web and at low cost in print.

Yet the US still refuses to act, even after this year s string of shocking incidents the massacre in a movie theatre in Colorado, an attack on a Sikh community in Milwaukee, another on a shopping mall in Oregon, and many more before the ruthless slaughter of first graders and school staff in Newtown. The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.