Rev. Al Sharpton, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Former Speaker of the House, Republican Newt Gingrich
Things must really be as bad on the education front, as I’ve been saying for the last couple of years. What! You don’t think being ranked 24th globally is too bad?
Well . . .
With the current administration throwing BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars at the problem, an unlikely trio met with the Prez and his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, on Thursday at the White House.
Believe it or not, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Rev. Al Sharpton, and the Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, actually joined forces to work on solving the terrible education problems in the USA.
All three men are members of Sharpton’s nonprofit Education Equality Project and are calling the crisis in education “the nation’s #1 concern”.
The combination of politicos from both parties is astounding, but points out how serious education problems are across the entire country.
As Gingrich was quoted as saying, he’s willing to work with anyone who commits to “putting children first, putting learning first and getting the job done in the next two or three years.”
Think I’ll contact his office about the REAL answer!
Brennan
I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time… however it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many, even professionals. I thank you to help making people more aware of possible issues.Great stuff as usual
Education is really a vital field, because almost everything in the world depends upon knowledge. I saw that on a website someplace — a non-profit organization in the Philippines. Teachers work tirelessly at their craft (many of them, anyway). But there are some who appear to have a gift to inspire. My high school world history teacher was one particular. She had lived in China as a kid. When she taught in Rockville, Maryland, you could feel the wisdom of all her experience. She didn’t have us memorize dates. Which had been the first really good thing I had been told by a history tutor. What she said next took the subject several magnitudes higher in value. She wanted us to know the motivations of history — the deeply visceral, human aspects of what can somewhat be a deadly dry subject. Jaime Escalante of “Stand and Deliver” fame, dared to dream big. Calculus for the typically dropout crowd? Pushing them to go on to college? Wow. And I have this publication called, “Calculus Made Easy,” by Sylvanus P. Thompson, first published in 1910. It’s been through lots of printings all to create a straightforward subject simple. What are we able to do to create more teachers who inspire world-changing superiority? Einstein once declared that imagination is a lot more important than knowledge. Knowledge can give you the inspiration. Imagination can take you to the stars. Don’t our youngsters ought to get better?