Let’s start off with some evidence that high school just isn’t “high” anymore. The Labor experts in the […]
Education
I recently updated my “10 Pillars of Life” to include: “Everyone should have the opportunity to live up […]
Anyone who has been around RJsCorner for very long knows what I think about unearned income. It is […]
The graphic here came from one of my Facebook friends and I agree with her. I know I […]
Fear is what drives far too many of us in the US right now. The majority of the […]
“Intolerance is the first sign of inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound […]
“Thinking outside the box” is a new sub-category within the Crayon Marks category. The term “thinking outside the […]
I know that robots have taken over many of the repetitive tasks from us humans. Many see that […]
It surprised me to see Russia as having a higher percentage of young people with degrees than the […]
Without formal education there is no prosperity but with curiosity there is also no prosperity. It’s not an […]
As the new school year approaches, teachers have come to expect that many of their students will have […]
In the old days boys wanted an education. They even had reading, writing, and arithmetic, instead of football. […]
Legislation signed by Gov. Mike Pence makes Indiana the first state to step back from the standards that […]
“Our scores are stagnant. We’re not seeing any improvement for our 15-year-olds,” said Jack Buckley, commissioner at the […]
I think I first happened upon the words paradigm shift sometime in the 1980s. Here are some of […]
To the U.S. technology industry, there’s a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming […]
Unemployment Rate by Education Level In 1992, the BLS began tracking unemployment rates by education level. Highlighted […]
Source: The jobs are there, the education is not – USATODAY.com. This disparity has come to be known as […]
I just finished reading the September/October issue of Sojourners Magazine and in it was an article about education. One of the most remembered quotes from that article is “The achievement gap due to income inequality is nearly twice as large as the racial achievement gap”. It went on to say that most of the underperforming schools are found in low-income neighborhoods. Education is still pretty much a State controlled environment but I know this is true for Indiana where I have lived most of my life.
Schools in Indiana are pretty much funded from local property taxes. So the higher the income area the more the school system gets to educate the kids. I grew up and am still living in a small town rural area of the State. When I was in high school the only guidance counselor we had as a local farmer who also taught FFA classes. I doubt he ever had any kind of training to help kids determine what was the best career field to enter. We didn’t have any advanced math classes beyond trigonometry so when I went to college at Purdue I had to play catch-up with remedial classes in that area as well as a few others.
With my ingrained altruist and “Follower of Jesus” worldview I am naturally drawn to and inspired by Sojourners […]
I noticed in our local paper recently that there were about 30 young people from our local high […]
Source: Mooresville School District, a Laptop Success Story – NYTimes.com. The district’s graduation rate was 91 percent in 2011, […]
Most people, especially those in the U.S. like to proudly proclaim we are number one. We shout it […]
I started getting the National Geographic magazine again. I used to look at them regularly when I was […]
