What are soft skills? The front of the Albany (Georgia) Herald today has a story about state official Melvin Everson coming to Albany to emphasis soft skills in K-12 education. http://www.albanyherald.com/home/headlines/Officials_Soft_skills_important_in_the_workplace_127499653.html Soft skills include punctuality, ability to learn, appropriate business attire and teamwork. Really? Reading that article was a long blink second for me. My [...]
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Our Youth, Soft Skills and the Chameleon Project
Posted in politics, tagged Conservatives, education, Georgia, jobs, youth on August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Education and School: Unlikely Allies Project
Posted in politics, tagged education, school, youth on August 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What should children learn as they head back to school? The start of the school year is filled with promise but I have serious concerns about the American education system. First, kids have much better resources than we had but we had home training, which was actually home, church, and community training. It was important [...]
Jobs and Economic Recovery Topic: Unlikely Allies Project
Posted in politics, tagged education, jobs, Obama, Unemployment, youth on April 4, 2011 | 8 Comments »
What should the average American know about the job market and the government’s role in job creation? Ted Sadler: Employment/recovery was the obvious first monthly topic for our new discussion series because so much pivots off jobs. We should admit a painful fact: many of the jobs that America lost during the economic downturn won’t be [...]
Recruiting Options for Black Male Teachers
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Arne Duncan, Blacks, crime, education, Georgia, spike lee, youth on February 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In Georgia, we spend too much money on criminal justice after spending cash for 12 years to education whose who would become criminals. New Governor and former congressman Nathan Deal was alarmed by the crime-related items in the state budget. To me, it’s like that old Fram oil filter commercial: “You can pay me now [...]
Henrietta Lacks: Unwitting Medical Pioneer
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, black history, Blacks, cancer, education, healthcare, Henrietta Lacks on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Henrietta Lacks’ contributions to medical research are amazing but were unknown to her when she died in Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. Taken without her permission, her cancer cells or HeLa cells have growth in lab settings better than any cell lines and are central to many medical breakthroughs while her family is uninsured. “The [...]
Teachers and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
Posted in politics, tagged Christie, Congress, education, mccain, Obama, spending, teachers on July 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We have all seen the Geico commercial where Charlie Daniels takes the violin from a strolling player in a fancy restaurant, rips some righteous fiddle licks and gives it back to the guy before saying, “That’s how you do it, son.” I enjoy everyone on the violin from Daniels to the brother in Dave Matthews Band [...]
Good T.V and The Home School Network
Posted in politics, tagged cable, education, Georgia, homeschooling, Obama, TV, vouchers on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you know me, you don’t call me during Jeopardy, Lost, 24, and Grey’s Anatomy. The same is true with CBS’s Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes. Wynton Maralis’s trumpet fanfare that starts Sunday Morning is the ringtone on my cellphone. My friends (part Nerds, part roughnecks) say that if you ask a sister what channel [...]
Charter Schools in Georgia
Posted in Conservative, Georgia, politics, tagged charter schools, education, Georgia, Schools, vouchers on December 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Would someone explain the charter school concept to me? Are these schools publicly funded private schools? I am one moderate who would support a school voucher program with certain provisions so I am not hating on charter schools. My concerns have always been with cherry-picking the best students and families out of the failing school [...]
Loyalty, Teachers And Our Failing Education System
Posted in African Americans, Georgia, politics, tagged education, palin, teachers on November 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Loyalty is a word with many different dimensions. On Capitol Hill, a former supervisor gave our staff the following poem during an uncertain period. Pledge of Loyalty By: Sir Elbert Kim Hubbard If you work for a man, in heaven’s name, work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution that he [...]
Outstanding Georgia Triplets heading for UGA
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, Blacks, education, Georgia, pharmacy, savannah, UGA on August 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We read so many negative things about our youth in the newspapers these days. Below is a positive story about triplets from the Savannah, Georgia area heading to the University of Georgia…top three in their class…. public school products…. single parent household with working mom. When I read “top three in their class,” I made [...]
Saving Our Troubled Boys
Posted in politics, tagged augusta, crime, education, Ga., gangs, juveniles, youth on July 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The headline in last Thursday’s Augusta Chronicle ‘Juvenile Crime up 23% in Richmond in the last year’ was troubling. So much so that I teamed up with a friend who manages three Waffle House restaurants and three local organizations that work directly with at-risk and disenfranchised boys to do something about it. A press conference [...]
Real Obama Change and Black Professionals
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, education, healthcare, Obama, teachers on June 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Be careful what you wish for because real problems and real solutions might cause a dramatic change in your professional and financial life. But, good Americans want what is best for the nation—right. President Obama is a great guy but you know he really is balancing hard solutions with the grim reality that some core [...]
Come On People: the Cosby Book
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, education, jobs on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As we consider the next steps in improving the community, the book Come On People by Dr. Bill Cosby and Dr. Alvin Poussaint is a must read. Here are my highlights from this firm and real book. Come On People: Notes p. 36 Although few acknowledge it-who would?- the doctrine of white supremacy has sunk [...]
Common English Errors
Posted in politics, tagged education, grammar, job skills, kids, school, youth on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
While teaching an academic refresher class in a welfare to work program, a student asked me to make a list of the common English errors she should avoid. The list because the first day icebreaker for new groups and the standard for speaking at the facility—in and out of class. Former students still thank me [...]
Education of Our Youth
Posted in politics, tagged African Americans, education, family, Obama on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Kids who think that they are not suppose to learn in the summer are simply wrong. School is formal education and everything else is informal education or other components in the learning process. What about the family that plans summer vacation trips to hit historical sites and science centers or the families who would send [...]
Albany Georgia School with One Male Teacher
Posted in Georgia, tagged education, albany, teachers, dougherty, single parent on May 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
While reading the Albany Herald today, I recognize the picture of Teacher of the Year candidate Jordan Cambron of Alice Coachman Elementary in Albany as a young man with in-laws in my neighborhood in Sylvester, Georgia. It might be a stretch but we are claiming him just like the assorted PHDs, grad degrees, military honors [...]
The Next Obama: Tim Tebow, Maya Moore and Myron Rolle
Posted in Georgia, politics, tagged crime, education, FSU, homeschooling, Maya Moore, myron rolle, newt, Obama, tebow, wedlock on January 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Florida Gators won the national college football championship—again. Go Gainesville Gators, Go. That Tim Tebow is one outstanding young man; his parents did a fine job raising him but some of that is genetics – which they provided also. Congrats to Myron Rolle from the FSU Football Team on his Rhodes Scholarship; putting Cecil’s [...]
Eric Johnson and school vouchers
Posted in politics, tagged education, Georgia, homeschooling, politics, vouchers on September 18, 2008 | 24 Comments »
State Senator Eric Johnson gets the backbone award from me because you pretty much know where he stands—whether you like his views or not. From my brief blogging, it is clearly I like bridgebuilding and looking for common ground and I think Lt. Governor candidate Johnson will find a sizable number of African American [...]
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