http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com Education's Broken Promise - Where did we go so wrong? Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:29:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Full disclosure here... Yes, I now earn my MONEY as a real estate professional.  In contrast to science - it is a field where you can make a great deal of money with relatively little formal training.  Not unlike science, finding your way to the bank  is not so easy.  ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/08/18/blog-about-real-estate-agents/ They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.... The first is a  chart of the trajectory of income inequality over the past 30 years.  As can be clearly seen -the post-inflation income of  the middle 60% and the bottom 20% has  remained static or has lost ground over ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/08/13/one-picture-or-two-charts-are-worth-a-thousand-words/ Just ask Jon Stewart of TheDailyShow. The reason I'm such a fan of the The Daily Show is that Jon Stewart has a knack for getting at the issues using his innate sense of timing and humor to soften the blow.  Let's face it:  We are  a total and complete ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/08/09/where-did-all-the-intellectuals-go-jon-stewart-has-the-answer/ A friend of mine sent me this link - and I was having a great time playing with it. I can't embed this deficit calculator on this blog, but here is a link to the Center for Economic and Policy Research's Deficit Calculator. With the 2010 House of Representatives elections as ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/07/23/pretend-you-are-potus-solve-our-deficit-problems-using-the-cepr-deficit-calculator/ In my previous blog on the "blame game." I used a clip from Jon Stewart to illustrate how the republicans have managed to blame Bill Clinton for just about everything. Jon Stewart played the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game with great style - illustrating this point.  With the 2010 ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/07/20/from-the-blame-game-to-evasion-tactics-the-republicans-have-their-feet-mired-in-fly-paper/ Every two years we have an  election cycle in Washington - and every two years its the same-old, same-old. The constitution dictates that members of the house must stand for re-election every two years. So the 2010 house races involve all 435 seats.  Even In the United States ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/07/17/the-blame-game-in-the-2010-congressional-races-a-pox-on-all-your-houses/ One of the biggest fallacies of our time is the notion that jobs in the public sector have no impact on private sector employment.   The public sector is grossly underestimated in its ability to promote R&D and profits down the line for the private sector. The trouble is obvious. That ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/07/07/the-public-sector-never-created-a-private-sector-job-oh-really/ A few days ago, I had the opportunity to to read a small publication that I had been carrying around with me for weeks - perhaps even months. It was a small paper published by Harvard Business Review, by Paul Krugman with the compelling title "A Country Is ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/03/22/how-academe-failed-science/ The protests from college students across the country hit a very personal chord with me. Having been through the "academic mill" I sympathize deeply with these student's who are attempting to do. They see education as their ticket to a middle class - or even upper class life. ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/03/06/essential-education-but-will-there-be-jobs/ I haven't done much teaching lately. Budget cuts have pretty much killed off adjunct positions and I have not sought a full-time position. So my exposure to undergraduates over the last two years has been limited. When I held such positions, students would often ask my advice ... http://www.americasbrokenbraintrust.com/2010/01/29/what-do-i-tell-my-science-students-about-a-career-in-research/