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On Monday we begin a six part Memorial Day week-long tribute to those who gave their lives to protect and defend the freedoms we enjoy. The series is entitled: “The Old Guard, a day in the life.” The mission of “The Old Guard” (The 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment is to conduct memorial affairs to honor their fallen comrades, and ceremonies and special events and to represent the U.S. Army by communicating its story to our Nation's citizens and the world. "The Old Guard," is the oldest active-duty infantry unit in the Army, serving our nation since 1784.
This year International Business Machines (IBM) its 100th anniversary in business. Join 333,302 other YouTube viewers who have watched the following thirty minute video celebrating IBM’s achievements.
What does it mean to be an IBMer?
Every employee experiences this incredible company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and society over the last 100 years gives us all a common framework. "They Were There" is told by first-hand witnesses—current and retired employees and clients—who were there when IBM helped to change the way the world works. We hope you find this presentation interesting and informative. As you’re watching, ask yourself, could the birth of IBM have been possible today?
As a major event during IBM's centennial year, THINK: A Forum on the Future of Leadership brought together leaders from government, business, academia and science, along with an audience of up-and-coming leaders from across the globe to deepen its collective understanding of the keys to success on a smarter planet.
IBM asked several of the THINK speakers and audience members to sit down for a few minutes so that Academy Award-winning documentary interviewer Errol Morris could ask them a few questions about leadership, making the world work better and the ingredients necessary for a smarter planet. In the days ahead we will present video excerpts of theses interviews and presentations from forum speakers.
Tomorrow,we begin a video of featuring Sam Palmisano, IBM's Chairman, President and CEO’s opening remarks at the company’s THINK Forum in New York City with a discussion on the new model of leadership needed for the 21st Century.
In the days ahead we will bring you daily video excerpts from this leadership forum. We hope you find it as facinsting as we did and learn something about this American business icon and its lasting influence on our every day lives in the process.
Today we present the final episode of our 9-part special video series presentation of the documentary film “Kids Aren’t Cars,” produced by Education Action Group (EAG) Foundation. The final installment is presented in two parts.
We hope through this special series that you have gained a greater insight into some of the problems faing education in America. If you have missed any previous episodes in this series you can find it at the Kid’s Aren’t Cars website.
If you would like to discuss education issues regarding the Franklin School District please contact a member of the Franklin School Board or Franklin Schools Superintendent Steve Patz at 414-525-7603.
Today we present episode 8 of our 9-part special video series presentation of the documentary film “Kids Aren’t Cars,” produced by Education Action Group (EAG) Foundation.
Charter schools - typically publicly-funded institutions - often deliver a better education to children and those students outperform their peers in the same neighborhood. While charter schools are no silver bullet to fix the education system, this is the story of one school in Indianapolis that took up residence in a former grocery store and because of quality instruction, flexible work rules and parental involvement, those students are excelling.
If you would like to discuss education issues regarding the Franklin School District please contact a member of the Franklin School Board or Franklin Schools Superintendent Steve Patz at 414-525-7603.
Today we present episode 7 of our multi-part special video series presentation of the documentary film “Kids Aren’t Cars,” produced by Education Action Group (EAG) Foundation.
Public education is one of the few sectors of society where employees can spend money to elect or defeat political candidates that affect their personal interest. Those that have been in the trenches - and have been on the receiving end of special interest negative campaigns - discuss what it's like to be opposed by some of the biggest spenders in state politics.
If you would like to discuss education issues regarding the Franklin School District please contact a member of the Franklin School Board or Franklin Schools Superintendent Steve Patz at 414-525-7603.
In episode 5 of our nine-part special series "Kids Aren't Cars,” we see how Union leaders fight for control to represent the interests of adults while students and parents are left behind.
Here is episode 3 of our multi-part video series presentation of the documentary film “Kids Aren’t Cars,” produced by Education Action Group (EAG) Foundation.
The core belief of teachers unions is that all teachers are equal and this is reflected in a collective bargaining agreement. There is no incentive for innovation or hard work. In this episode, public school teachers discuss their profession and pro-teacher reform they'd like to see.
THE FRANKLIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL will bring our readers all nine parts of this series in the coming days.
In episode 4 of our nine-part special series "Kids Aren't Cars, union leaders fight for control to represent the interests of adults as students and parents are left behind. Is there hope for the kids of Detroit?
“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd (sic) and Virtue is preservd (sic). On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd (sic) in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
Although the film focuses on Detroit Public Schools, we believe it’s relative to the culture and mindset permeating across America’s Education System and exposes the Teachers’ Unions for what they are truly all about; and as we’ve suspected all along, it is not the kids.
America's assembly line public school system is hurting kids' education and causing us to slip further behind globally. According to Education Action Group (EAG) Foundation, Last year, McKinsey & Co. reported American students were 25th globally in math scores and 24th in science, behind countries like Iceland and Hungary.
Does this documentary validate Governor Scott Walker’s budget repair bill and Act 10? Watch and decide for yourselves.
This is the final video in our series Public Education in America: What’s Wrong With Our Schools, in which we presented the free market views on Education of Milton Friedman, American economist and statistician at the University of Chicago, and Nobel Prize laureate. The series also included the views of Friedman’s detractors (See parts three through six).
We hope you found this presentation thought provoking and that you gained a deeper insight into the crisis in Education in America through this series.
In Part Five, the debate between Education bureaucrats and Milton Friedmancontinues with bureaucrats defending the status quo and Friedman countering with his free market views on Education reform for America.
The debate between Milton Friedmanand gathered Education bureaucrats continues in Part Four with bureaucrats explaining the many problems they face compared to private schools with regard to special education and government regulations.
In Part Three of our six-part series on education in America, Milton Friedmancontinues his comparison of state universities (UCLA) and private colleges (Dartmouth) and outlines the student success and failure factors at both institutions. Part Three concludes with a discussion between Friedman and several of his detractors; professtionals in the field of education opposed to his free market ideas on education.
If you missed Part One in our six-part video series focusing on Milton Friedman’s views on public education, click here. In this video, pay close attention to teachers' beliefs and outright comtempt for parents. Friedman also examines Higher education using a comparison of state universities (UCLA) and private institutions (Dartmouth) and sums up the comparative return on investment and value to the student (customer) in Part Three.
Today we begin our six-part video series focusing on Milton Friedman’s views on public education. Part One addrresses what's wrong with our schools. Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician at the University of Chicago, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
You’ll notice that the videos in this series are dated (late 1960s), but the problems plaguing Education in America have changed very little for the better, despite all the political hogwash and billions of taxpayer dollars thrown at Education by both parties in the past 40-years.
If you have been following the news lately you know that in a recent memo, State Superintendent Tony Evers urged the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee to restore funding for public schools and work collaboratively to improve the quality of all Milwaukee schools before considering any voucher (parental school choice) expansion, calling voucher expansion “morally wrong.”
Is Evers’ opposition to expanding Wisconsin’s voucher program really an issue founded on moral principles or is he more fearful of losing power and state funding for failing schools? You will have to decide that for yourself.
Tomorrow we begin a six-part video series focusing on Milton Friedman’s views on public education. Here’s Friedman’s view on school choice. As you may know, Friedman was considered by many as the twentieth century’s most prominent advocate of free markets.
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