Gallup-Purdue Poll
In 2014, the Gallup-Purdue Index polled 30,000 adults with Bachelor’s Degrees. They asked these graduates about what they termed “support” and “experiential” factors, each relevant to what the student experienced at college. These factors were referred to as the “Big Six,” as they connected to how graduates believed their collegiate experiences prepared them for life. […]
Why don’t Americans appear to care about Education
An interesting question! It was posed by a highly intelligent woman, married but without children, who has a good job that does not overlap with any aspect of the educational system. The query was in response to a conversational observation by myself that America ranks in the 20’s worldwide when it comes to academic excellence. […]
Is Silence Golden?
“A Public Service Video for the Techno Generation” ** Every person boarding the morning commuter bus has his or her earplugs firmly affixed, eyes intently focused on the iDevice in their hands. Arriving at their financial employer, attention immediately shifts to the multiple multi-colored computer screens surrounding the cavernous room in which millions, perhaps billions, […]
Hispanic Culture … parts six and seven
PART SIX: How Hispanics can Fail For Hispanics to not take advantage of the greater opportunities opening up for college-educated bilingual, bicultural individuals, they will have to: Shoot themselves in the foot by having limited interest in making any adjustments necessary to fit into American corporate culture. Have more-out-of-wedlock children. Not read with their children, […]
Hispanic Culture … Parts four and five
PART FOUR: Questions for the Hispanic Family There is a long list of positive Hispanic attributes which presumably find their way into the qualitative measure of family happiness. Nonetheless, if one is dispassionately examining the impact on the future college student of the prototypical Hispanic family—with the emphasis here being the family relatively new to […]
Hispanic Culture….Parts two and three
PART TWO: Qualitative Characteristics of Latino Students aided by the WKBJ Foundation Based on extensive interactions, my belief structure is that the Latino student has: A greater need for sheer information about higher education options An unclear understanding (like many of his peers for sure) of the link between individual actions and eventual consequences The […]
HISPANIC CULTURE THROUGH A WHITE LENS … in seven parts
For over two decades, I have been Executive-Director, and sole staff, of a non-profit foundation seeking to advance the educational aspirations of students in and around the 20,000 population, predominantly Hispanic town of Dover, New Jersey. Located about 40 miles due west from midtown Manhattan, Dover has an urban rhythm to it, while economically it […]
Reflection on Technology
Some time ago, I read that a significant number of Silicon Valley executives had enrolled their children in schools which were not big users of educational technology. Interesting, somewhat like the management of Coca-Cola telling their kids to lay off the soft drinks. Fast forward to a January 2, 2016 “Wall Street Journal” article by […]
Historical Cleansing: A Proposal
Because there is a growing desire to cease evaluating a person based on his or her body of work, I am suggesting a new evaluative tool, the Rules of Normative Thinking and Behavior (RNTB). A panel of college students at highly selective schools, aided by their history professors, should be charged with the responsibility of […]
Bashing the Billionaires
Let’s call him “BeeGee.” Like all capitalists, he attempted to create a monopoly for a product that everybody wanted, and he came so close that he made a major amount of money, too much in the view of his social policy critics. So what if his enterprise employed thousands of people who willingly came to […]