Posted in Health & Mental Health, tagged Health, Pathways to Health, Tulsa on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Tulsa Health Department has released its first draft of the Community Health Improvement Plan for public review and comment. The document, which culminates the Department’s Pathways to Health community planning initiative, identifies six strategic objectives to improve the health of Tulsa County citizens:
Decrease the prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity
Improve affordability and availability of [...]
Posted in Early Childhood Education, tagged Early Childhood Education, home visitation, school choice on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heritage is shocked, SHOCKED, that someone would want parents to have the option to bring trained professionals into the home to help their children develop. Isn’t there a T.V. show with this theme?
Section 440 of the House bill – Home Visitation Programs for Families with Young Children and Families Expecting Children – would provide grants [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dr. Daniel P. King, superintendent of the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo school district in South Texas, was recently interviewed by Public School Insights about efforts to reduce the dropout rate in his district. Arriving at the district in 2007, the dropout rate was twice the Texas state average. Within two years, that rate has decreased 75% to half the [...]
Posted in Early Childhood Education, Research & Data, education on July 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Gaps in educational achievement between the U.S. and other countries, between black and Hispanic students and white students, between low-income students and middle and upper-income students, and between low-performing states and the rest essentially amount to a permanent national recession, according to a recent report by McKinsey & Company. The economic cost of these gaps [...]
Posted in Jobs/Workforce, tagged Jobs/Workforce on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to the National Council of La Raza, “Latinos have the highest labor force participation rate in the United States (68.7%), yet they earn the lowest median weekly wages at only $545 per week.”
I also didn’t know that NCLR has a workforce division with a Health Care Career Pathways Initiative:
The NCLR Health Care Career Pathways [...]
Posted in education, tagged community colleges, higher education, Tulsa Community College on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The President recently released a proposal to expand federal funding for community colleges by 60 percent over the next 10 years:
And on July 14, Obama unveiled the American Graduation Initiative, a 10-year, $12 billion plan that mirrors much of the Brookings report in calling for a significant increase in investment in community colleges. [...]
Of [...]
Posted in Community Partnerships, Innovation, Poverty, Uncategorized, tagged food and nutrition on July 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Some of the innovation gang headed over to a local taco stand for lunch to enjoy the weather and much talked about experience by the local media of late. When we came back, I had an a-ha moment of why doesn’t Tulsa introduce some sort of traveling fruit and vegetable truck in our food deserts? Since [...]
Posted in Jobs/Workforce, education, tagged higher education, Jobs/Workforce on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Matt Yglesias, of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, took in stride my comment that policy writers missed the point of that CEA report – it was about reforming workforce programs, not about the growth of healthcare and education jobs (which we already knew all about).
He writes:
But Micah Kordsmeier explains that the important part [...]
Posted in Jobs/Workforce, tagged Jobs/Workforce, Policy on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Washington Post writer Ezra Klein must be reading too, because he clicked over to that Council of Economic Advisors report on the jobs of tomorrow and had a thing or two to say:
The first is that the private sector is not projected to do a lot of job creation on its lonesome over the next [...]
Posted in education, tagged Congress, Early Childhood Education, higher education, Policy on July 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Congressman George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, has proven himself an avid reader of our little blog! You see, in response to my highlighting of this morning’s Quote of the Day, about how the most important reform in post-secondary education is the advancement of early education, the good Chairman has [...]
