UPDATED 8:00 PM

Noel King here on the night shift.

The Gates Foundation has just released a survey of 40,000 public school teachers who shared their thoughts on how to improve our nation's schools. We'll be speaking Jane Hannaway from the Urban Institute who says that right now, it's just impossible to determine what makes a good teacher. Producer Marine Olivesi spent the afternoon trying to track down teachers to join us for their thoughts on improving education - and ended up with dozens of interested folks from across the country. We've narrowed it down to a public high school teacher from Fresno, California and a young man who works at a charter school in Brooklyn, New York.

 
A striking new government statistic crossed our radar earlier in the day: 1 in 5 people in the U.S. over the age of 65 live in poverty. New York Times reporter Sam Roberts explains why. And of course, we'll go right to the source with 74-year-old Delores Miller who is about to be evicted from her apartment in New York.

And producer Chang Lin has used old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting to track down Bill Bunten, the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas. Bunten is changing the name of the city, at least for a little while, to Google, Kansas. Google's "Fiber for Communities" program is going to give some U.S. cities free broadband internet and Bunten wants Topeka, um, Google, to be in the running.

POSTED 12:45 p.m. Alex Goldmark here on the day shift, and an especially boisterous editorial meeting has left us with (probably) too many ideas to follow up on for interviews tomorrow. Here's what we know we're going to cover...

President Obama will be speaking in about an hour to announce some changes to his health care reform proposals. He will include four Republican ideas. We'll examine what they are and find out just how bipartisan the new plan really is. One of the changes would allow investigators to pose undercover as patients to investigate — kind of like air marshals for Medicaid fraud, no? 

We'll also hear from some savvy administrators at Historically Black Colleges who have figured out a few ways to increase students retention — a requirement under new federal aid policies. Their methods might become a model for other schools.

A Congressional committee is set to vote on a controversial proposal to label the Turkish massacre of Armenians as genocide. We'll find out from a BBC correspondent in Turkey how this might hurt U.S.-Turkish relations. And also, why is Congress thinking of doing this now, when the U.S. needs all the good relations it can get with Muslim nations? 

Finally, 30 years ago tomorrow Robert Mugabe won power in Zimbabwe. Has it been all bad? Has it always been heavy handed rule? We'll find out.