Hillary Clinton’s statement today about jobs and the economy, which she made during her first stop as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, inadvertently gave millions of unemployed and underemployed American workers another reason to keep the race against Republican lunatic Donald Trump closer than it should be. I winced...
Earlier this week, California Governor Jerry Brown did something that will put thousands of dollars into the pockets of California community college students. The cash will arrive in the form of direct out-of-pocket savings as California joins Virginia and 38 community colleges in other states that are rolling out Zero...
At last, we have evidence of a skills gap (shoemaking)! I had to clip this ad that ran today in our local daily newspaper, the Palo Alto Post, for the edification of the D.C. and corporate policy elite who stubbornly maintain that the so-called "skills gap" is a major problem...
We should modernize how we approach testing in our public schools and colleges. Think about flight simulators. When U.S. Navy instructors train a new pilot they would never dream of giving her the keys to a $300 million fighter jet if she gets a passing score on a bubble (multiple choice)...
Few things upset me more than the free pass many media outlets give to people who say things that are just not true. In many cases, these untruths often serve some larger purpose for their purveyors. Savvy CEO's, for example, have often stampeded public agencies into decisions that fatten corporate...
Excerpted from New Job-Training and Education Grants Program Launched. "Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ushered in a new era of hope and opportunity for millions of Americans today when they revealed the innovative application criteria for the first $500 million in grants under the four-year,...
At the precise moment when government agencies should be using available technologies to lower costs and increase access to high quality educational opportunities -- at the very moment when that may well be our most pressing public need -- California is about to take a giant leap backward by ditching...
February 26, 2009 My previous posts on the credit crisis have been getting so many hits I'll weigh in on that topic again with a brief observation and a very simple proposal. First, the observation: Most of the talking heads attribute the current credit crisis to the housing bubble, the sub-prime loan...
The scariest thing about the current global economic crisis is the look of uncertainty and sometimes even panic in the eyes of many of those who are supposed to fix the problem. They clearly don't have much of a clue. So, how could we solve the credit crunch? Really, what...
August 18, 2004 What do Winston Churchill, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, Upton Sinclair, Alan Cranston, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Al Gore have in common? All of them were journalists before, and in some cases also after, they became political figures. They are among the hundreds, perhaps thousands of other important leaders who...