Oprah For President? Americans look at outsiders simply because the pros are inept
WASHINGTON – Oprah for President? Yes, after her recent Hollywood speech this is now a distinctly possible scenario for...
Category: Education
The Real Benefits of Healthy Motherhood Science indicates that babies need to be close to their mothers until age three. How can women be good mothers without losing career opportunities?
WASHINGTON – Mothers should spend a great of time with their new-born babies in the first 3 years of...
Only Skilled Workers Will Make It In The Global Economy Those who cannot master complex processes will be pushed down into the vast pool of manual labor
WASHINGTON – We can argue that in America may be about half the work force is doing alright because...
America’s Delicate Democracy How deep ideological divisions breed dysfunction
WASHINGTON – Democracy, anyone? But, yes, of course. We all want democracy. In principle we all agree as to...
Wanted: Credible Centrist Political Leaders There are non partisan elected officials who can propose an agenda of growth and opportunity for America
WASHINGTON – Recently, a Democratic party elected leader of national renown argued in a public forum that in order...
Wellness Programs Will Transform US Health care Doctors should be rewarded for teaching people how to stay healthy
WASHINGTON – Undoing Obamacare is proving to be a lot more complicated than what confident President Trump (and the...
No Real Development Without Economic Growth – Part 2 No progress without focus on what it takes to foster enterprise and growth
WASHINGTON – International development practitioners focus on policies through which they can eliminate or alleviate poverty, the visible manifestation of...
No Real Development Without Economic Growth – Part 1 Development practitioners wrongly believe that poverty can be eliminated without building robust enterprises
WASHINGTON – International development is generally defined by practitioners of this craft as “the fight against poverty“. I totally disagree...
US Public Education In Crisis Latest PISA scores underline the failures of U.S. public education
WASHINGTON – The international student proficiency scores gathered under the auspices of the Program for International Student Assessment, (also...
The Tragedy Of The Uneducated Poor in America The poor cannot get a good education. And so, they stay poor
WASHINGTON – Much has been said about the “crisis” of American public education. Indeed, if we look at the...