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The Proactive Student
(I am not sure where the thoughts below came from exactly – and they are not in any particular order: probably the answer is that there were multiple sources, including the writer thankfully.) The high school student who is on a path to success is one who is proactive. The people with whom they interact […]
Long-term Money Transfers
Follow the trail: taxpayers, through the Federal Direct Loan program, lend money to higher education students, who then turn it over to colleges, who pay their professors and staff. Upon graduation, students repay the taxpayers. Through the multiple years involved in this process, the only category stressed by the financial schematic is that of students. […]
Concerning College Students
The young people who are the main characters in this modest essay are verbal, articulate in a somewhat narrowly defined way, with energy and positive personalities. Within their cohort, they are seen as high-achieving, blessed with attractive combinations of talent and grit. With the help of non-profit organizations and EOP or similar programs, each committed […]
Trump
Deep breath – an attempt, before tonight’s speech, at a dispassionate appraisal of President Trump’s actions regarding immigration. GOOD: he has kept DACA in place so far. Of course, if you are one of the “deplorables” who believed he should follow through religiously on every campaign vow, you are disappointed. GOOD: his priority will be […]
A STUNNING RESEARCH DISCOVERY
You will not have read this expose in the “New York Times,” as neither their controlling shareholders nor their staffers have their children in the affected schools, but – FOR MANY DECADES, financially challenged urban African-American and Hispanic kids have had virtually no choice but to attend local schools noted for low academic standards and […]
Pure Political Fantasy
Welcome! Take your seat and put your emotions on hold. You are about to hear things you never expected, not in a dream, nor in a nightmare. It is January 21. President Trump has been widely praised, except by the bicoastal media elites of course, for yesterday’s inaugural address, in which he promised both to […]
Higher Education
The alert consumer discovers that she is not getting the same number of chips or ounces of edible stuff in the packages she routinely buys at the supermarket. The cost of the box is the same as before. The quantity is not. The company does not announce that it has raised prices. Colleges do the […]
College Fees
As the Executive-Director of a foundation which for many years has assisted young people to attend college, I have developed a distaste for the manner in which the purveyors of “higher education” conduct themselves when it comes to … money! And there is no question that the vast percentage of “our” students regard colleges with […]
PLEASE LIST ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE SWEETER
When there are nine crazies at our Senior Center basketball outings, we have one team with five players, rotating them in order to play four-on-four. This is interesting, but irrelevant. Equally unimportant is that when we have a substitute because of the above situation, we play to 11 baskets instead of 8. What is crucial […]
Capitalism
Many critics of the American economic system have an inch-deep understanding of its history. At the same time, they always have a long list of political “devils,” those individuals with whom they are in disagreement and who, by definition, are behind all negative policy decisions. In the 20th century, the average standard-of-living increased many-fold and […]