by andflywrite | Aug 20, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
The “K-5 Plus” program is one of the results of huge new education funding in the NM state budget this past January. More where that came from is on the way. See next post on even greater Oil and Gas tax/royalty income for the next legislature to work...
by andflywrite | Aug 13, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
Governor Luhan Grisham has appointed an educator Ryan Stewart with a very strong background in working to support less successful schools and students. That work is often with students living in poverty, and groups often neglected in NM, such as the native americans....
by andflywrite | Aug 8, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
Education is hugely expensive (as is Healthcare) in the US. Each year something like three quarters of a Trillion, with a T, dollars are spent on primary and secondary education in the US. One way to think of that is as an immense pool of purchasing power, and if we...
by andflywrite | Jul 29, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality. Raj Chetty’s ideas and research are featured in the Aug. 2019 issue of the Atlantic in a lengthy article, linked below. The...
by andflywrite | Jul 29, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
Asa Stone is a Presidential Fellow on sabbatical doing research with a team on ways to better teach soft skills that industry and machines can’t perform, such as effective communication, empathy, teamwork, and leadership. She’s regularly a teacher of the...
