A FEW INCONVENIENT TRUTHS, COMMENTS, and QUESTIONS
Every Executive-Director in the non-profit world is smart, articulate, compassionate. Each can describe ad nauseum the lamentable plight of a poster child, one whose life challenges well-told can easily cause a funder to be separated from his or her charitable money. Overall, nonetheless, success in aiding such young people is more random than systematic. In […]
Thoughts about Charter School Leadership
Perhaps it is useful to start with a series of non-negotiable beliefs pertinent to the charter schools of my experience; if an individual’s mindset does not match up, the question of leadership is moot. *all young people can learn *high academic standards are a must *a commitment to data assessment leads to on-point and timely […]
UBI Thought Process
These succinct comments were written in 2019, in part reflecting my interest in the idea of a UBI. Recently, I asked myself “how are the observations below affected by COVID-19” and put my responses in brackets. The setting is the United States. DEMOGRAPHICS: There are major differences in median ages among the four major ethnicities. […]