USA voters cast their ballots for 435 House seats, 35 Senate spots, Governors along with a whole lot of state, local offices and issues. While folks are focused only with the US House and The Senate, the big story may be #USA Governors. @TheDemocrats may take a bunch of states, with serious implications for 2020 and the all-important issue of redistricting.
The US' top official overseeing student loans has now resigned, citing #WhiteHouse hostility to protecting borrowers. The US report cards for schools and school districts have been a sore source of controversy, which will only grow when the nation starts receiving overall grades this fall.
As the new school year approaches, voters should keep in mind that education funding remains on life support, while many schools are crumbling, but corporations received a huge #GOP tax cut, which was primarily pocketed by executives and shareholders, with little trickle down to workers.
NO Not BS, but PS as in Public Service. There are activists and organizers who have been extremely effective. One individual comes to mind, but there are others and many more are urgently needed.
Some public servants perfected the craft on the streets, responding to injustices by helping people to reach their goals.
Let's create an opportunity with an eye toward training folks to solve real-world problems in hopes to spread these ideas.
Who despite evidence to the contrary has tweeted confirmation that he is, in fact, a stable genius and is now proposing to merge US Department of Labor and Education? Is this a sinister plan to destroy both agencies?
According to Chronicle conducted research, Donald J. Trump has discussed higher-education policy sparingly. That tendency has largely continued since his inauguration as President Trump and appears to be shared by Betsy DeVos, his Cabinet member and Secretary of Education. http://www.chronicle.com
October 13, 2016: Mr. Trump gives his most substantive speech on higher education, at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, where he suggests his own income-based repayment plan, and says he will “reconsider” tax-exempt endowments.
Always Listen, Open Up, Offer Affection, Focus Outward, Withhold Judgement, Offer Help.
Become Interested, Volunteer and Help, Challenge Prejudices, Use Imagination, and Respect.
Do not get discouraged, showing empathy takes repetition to make it a habit.
Avoid "why" questions because this comes across as accusatory.
Others can see through insincerity and your relationship could end.
How to Close the Empathy Gap | For Parents | US News http://health.usnews.com/wellness/for-parents/articles/2017-02-22/how-t…
There are angry complaints about the state of our current system of education and they not only come from parents and students, but now employers lament their recent hires with their newly minted, or indebted degrees were under-prepared, but these complaints that are nothing new, but seem to have grown louder over the years. Why is that?
Never hire someone without asking this via @FortuneMagazine http://for.tn/1X3Rgol?xid=for_tw_sh
7 ways body language can help you get your next job http://ti.me/1TWYPhZ
Rebuilding the Bachelor's Degree https://shar.es/1jwoOh
Do you want to economize your six figure college education? You may first wish to consider enrolling into a junior, otherwise known as a community college.
Many people who are planning to go to a university or four year college in the fall are worried about the high cost of tuition and the staggering student loan debt. Fortunately, if you're smart about it, a good education can be achieved without these pitfalls.
As we celebrate the 16th Annual International Education Week, a joint initiative of the US Department of State and Department of Education. As noted on the Department of State website, International Education Week is "an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide" and helps us to prepare for "a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States."
Given the recent and tragic events in Paris, the importance of initiatives such as International Education Week is underscored. At its core, International Education is about the building of bridges between people and cultures for mutual understanding, discussion, and dialogue.
CITY IMAGES hopes that all of you will be able to encourage each and every student to participate, and look forward to growing our International Education Week in the coming years and appreciate your continued support.
It has been a good couple of weeks for parents of young children worrying about expensive college educations looming in their future. Unfortunately it’s too late for those already accruing hundreds of thousands of dollars in college costs but parents of younger children can rest easy. Recent events have exposed the collapsing value of today’s college education. Parents like me see that our high school friends who got civil service jobs rather than college degrees are now retired and supplementing their guaranteed pensions with new careers or spending more time at their vacation homes in Florida. Our degrees offer little opportunity if we haven’t made it into the senior ranks of banking or some other industry sloshing around in government support. Now that middle management is gone do consultants really need expensive degrees?
Parents who have already sacrificed their credit and assets so their kids can get nice white collar jobs like they had are increasingly supporting their adult children whose Starbucks wages are insufficient to support an independent life. They may have vibrant intellectual capabilities and know all about Shakespeare, Galileo and Plato but as Macro Rubio said, welders make more than philosophers.
Does anyone really know why the president and chancellor of the University of Missouri were forced to resign? Black students felt “stranded, forced to face an increase in tension and inequality with no systemic support” after the administration’s weak response to the troubles in Ferguson more than 100 miles away 14 months ago. The disgruntled students rallied around their colleague Jonathan Butler who went on a hunger strike until his group’s demands were met; one being that the president of the university apologize for his white privilege. Mr. Butler is the son of a Union Pacific Railroad executive who earned at least $8.4 million last year so what additional systemic support he needed is unclear. Nobody took the demands seriously until a group of the school’s football players refused to play, putting at least $1 million in weekly TV revenue at risk, their 1-5 conference record notwithstanding. It’s all an example of the lunatics running the asylum that would make Randle McMurphy blush.
You might say it’s just a state school in the middle of nowhere but take a look at Yale University, matriculator of presidents and others among our nation’s elite. Attempting to ensure a safe campus for students whose worst fear is of being offended, Yale officials issued a memo discouraging Halloween costumes that could be seen as offensive. After one official suggested students look away from that which offends them he was accosted on campus by a mob led by a female student screaming obscenities at him, you can watch it here. What most would see as an expellable offense was instead met with calm consideration by the official who probably feared for his physical safety more than his emotional safety. The campus has seemingly rallied around the aggrieved student with mass protests on the streets of New Haven.
Similar protests against free speech are springing up at other colleges too. Institutions of higher education that still allow students to question authority commonly relegate it to some far off corner designated as a free speech zone. Interaction among the student body must be in full observance of up-to-the-minute political correctness. Professors teaching about those heretofore unobjectionable subjects like Shakespeare, Galileo and Plato must issue trigger warnings that students might find certain material objectionable. With all the triggers lying around it was only a matter of time before students started pulling them and the barrels are pointed at the administrators who enable them to live out their suspended adolescence as long as the tuition checks clear.
So if you want your kids to learn how America’s founders were all racists or western intellectual thought is oppressive, or all the companies you hope might employ your child are really just ravaging the earth and their employees, then go ahead and take out that second mortgage but make sure you have enough left over to support your adult children after they graduate and can’t find jobs. Otherwise, encourage them to develop their intellect through work. Ideally in a field where the supply of labor is insufficient to meet demand, like welders and plumbers. Then you can use the money to buy them a home so they can move out of yours.
