Mona Anis was working for a government mouthpiece paper by day, and protesting the government by night.

A conversation with three education reformers who are making changes from the ground up. Alison Stewart talks with Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at NYU, Zakiyah Ansari at the Coalition for Educational Justice, and Susan Szachowicz, the principal of Brockton high school. who helped spearhead the initiative that turned it from a failing school into a national model.

At Naperville Central High, a suburban school outside of Chicago, educators are committed to combining movement with learning. In many classrooms here, teachers are getting their kids up using "brain breaks." The idea is that splitting up a lesson with exercises will help kids stay more focused and attentive. And educators here say it doesn't cost a penny.

Under the leadership of Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County is transforming the way science is taught, emphasizing lab settings and small group problem solving. The University has also been a leader in minority achievement in science, engineering, and math fields. Alison Stewart sits down with Dr. Hrabowski.

Jon Meacham discusses the similarities between the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's and the movement to improve our public education system today.

New York Times correspondent Neil MacFarquhar discusses the political and military situation in Egypt and what a post-Mubarak Egypt might look like.

In the Chicago suburbs, Neperville Central High School has embraced a culture of fitness: PE is a daily, graded requirement. And for some students, there's an innovative program to schedule PE right before their most challenging classes. In the six years since that program started, students who signed up for PE directly before English and math have performed better.

Medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay explains the importance of a new brain scan that can help doctors diagnose Alzheimer's Disease earlier than ever.

As the Health Care Reform Act is attacked in courts and Congress, Need to Know discusses the quiet removal of one controversial provision, funding for End-of-Life Counseling (so-called "Death Panels") with Dr. Atul Gawande, author and medical writer for The New Yorker.

As the Health Care Reform Act is attacked in courts and Congress, Need to Know discusses the quiet removal of one controversial provision, funding for End-of-Life Counseling (so-called "Death Panels").

Jon Meacham speaks to award-winning documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki about his latest film "Reagan."

The bipartisan federal commission created by Congress to get to the roots of the 2008 financial crisis issues its final report this week. Stacy-Marie Ishmael, an editor with the Financial Times, talks with Alison Stewart about why it was so hard for the commission to determine who was to blame.

Host Jon Meacham assesses the president's State of the Union address, and discusses the difficulties Obama will have in turning big ideas into big accomplishments in our current political environment.

For Blueprint America correspondent Maria Hinojosa reports on the huge number of older Americans living in car dependent suburbs and asks what happens when its time to take their collective car keys away.

Jon Meacham talks with historian Alan Brinkley about President Obamas ambitious government programs and whether a second New Deal is possible or practical in todays world of political partisanship.

Editorial cartoonist Steve Brodner looks at Afghanistan's future through the eyes of all the power players envisioning a favorable outcome - for themselves.

The firestorm ignited by author Amy Chua's book on parenting the Chinese way is evidence of a larger, looming fear American's have of Chinese dominance. With Chinese President Hu Jintao in town for an official state visit, hosts Jon Meacham and Alison Stewart and their guests discuss China's geopolitical importance and U.S.-China relations.

Alison Stewart talks with CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen about his latest book which charts America's prosecution of the war on terror and al Qaeda's continued strength as a movement.

Author Amy Chua talks to Alison Stewart about her new memoir, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother," and discusses the uproar over her "extreme" approach to parenting.

Jon Meacham, a gun owner, takes both parties to task over their reluctance to ban assault weapons.