Perspectives of a Lifelong Learner
Dozens of colleges are vaulting thousands of low-income students into the middle class and beyond, and yet are being starved of funding. In socio-economic terms--Where did you start? Where are you now? Where do you think you'll be 10, 20, 30 years from now? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/opinion/sunday/americas-great-working-class-colleges.html?_r=0
For those that believe that state, county and local boundaries are antiquated barriers, this may be real food for thought. It certainly would provide support to the concepts outlined in "The Metropolitan Revolution" by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/a-new-map-for-america.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
In this post, I share some data on how seniors feel about the degree to which they are achieving their American Dream. In this case, a 104 index should be read as “seniors feel 4 percentage points better than national average regarding the degree to which they are achieving this dimension of the American Dream.”... Continue Reading →
"It’s not at all clear who, in the future, will consider themselves white, or whether regional segregation by education and wealth, which has become more acute in recent years, will deepen or ease. Will the cities that have recently exploded in population, mostly in the Sun Belt, remain economically vibrant, or will new growth cities... Continue Reading →
Faith in—and basic knowledge of—America’s most essential institutions has rarely felt so tenuous. Can our educational system save us? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/schooled/2017/02/can_schools_help_americans_do_a_better_job_separating_fact_from_fake_news.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_fb_bot
This is a must read for professionals, academics, and more importantly, all Americans. http://www.pewresearch.org/2017/01/10/how-america-changed-during-barack-obamas-presidency/
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