Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 11:06AM I was on Twitter the other day, lazily skimming through baseball game results and NY Times headlines when something caught my eye. An acquaintance wrote: "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." While that makes a lot of sense, there was something wrong with the picture...
Monday, April 19, 2010 at 11:54PM Yesterday, as I sat at my desk with bad music blaring through my headphones, I found myself musing on the state of today's music. Huge hooks, catchy melodies, songs that stay with you, even when you don't want them to. But what happened to the geniuses of yesteryear? Where is the next Paul McCartney or Elliot Smith? Who will be the next John Coltrane or Van Morrison? Will we ever again have distinctive, soulful, honest voices like Gladys Knight, Debbie Harry, or Etta James? The answer is maybe.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 7:34PM There are some people in this world who take and get and keep. And then there are others who, like Mary J. Blige, earn and grow and give. Last week, the legendary R&B singer opened the MJB Center for Women in her hometown of Yonkers, NY.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:11PM When I was little, my primary exposure to art and crafts was gluing macaroni onto construction paper and drawing rainbows around it. But what could I have learned if there had been more guidance, more theory, more education behind it? Kids can learn a multitude of things from art – color theory, spatial relationships, even simple math. So why is it that there isn’t more art in schools?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:36PM Remember that kid in your class who could never really sit still? The one who might have stuttered when asked to read aloud, or who couldn’t read most of the words at all? When asked to be quiet or during a test, that kid usually did the opposite. That kid could have had a learning disability – and it probably went undiagnosed for a number of years, as many teachers and parents don’t know that these “behavioral problems” could actually be symptoms of a learning disability.
Children, Education, Mentors in Children's Issues, Philanthropy 