New Calif. Education Bill Won’t Compensate for Overpopulation, Over-Immigration
Sacramento is embroiled in a nasty feud over a familiar subject – school accountability. The 2013 Local Control Funding Formula hopes to... Read More
Costly College Degree … Today’s Labor Market Generating Jobs that Don’t Need It
Parents of college-bound graduating high school seniors got a rude jolt recently about the value of a college diploma in the moribund... Read More
Where is our Civilization Headed?
Historian Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall, and that, “An autopsy of history would show that all great... Read More
Refugee Relocation Reality Comes to KS
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” In August, I wrote about the Wichita K-12 school system and its enrollment... Read More
Obama Plots Backdoor H-1B Increases
Callously insensitive to the displaced American workers at Disney, Southern California Edison and at many other large American corporations, such as Qualcomm... Read More
Immigrants Still Generally Lag in Education
Immigration advocates recently trumpeted a report from the Pew Hispanic Center that the educational attainments of legal immigrants, at all levels of... Read More
Stopping Brain Drain Is a No-Brainer
Ethiopia’s state minister of health observed several years ago that there were more Ethiopian doctors practicing medicine in Chicago than in Ethiopia.... Read More
Bureau of Labor Statistics May Report Step in Right Direction, but Dark Clouds Loom
The May Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report was more encouraging than anticipated. About 280,000 jobs were added, and some of the... Read More
Nevada Eager to Fill its Classrooms with Illegal Immigrant Teachers
Nevada’s AB27, a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to qualify for teaching credentials, is under consideration in the state assembly. The... Read More
Census Bureau: Fewer Immigrants Speaking English at Home
Are They Missing Out on American Dream? As a retired ESL instructor who spent 25 years teaching California’s immigrants how to speak... Read More