tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12044401.post8295178095127556852..comments2023-10-28T09:27:04.048-04:00Comments on Tutor Mentor Institute, LLC: Reframing School Dropout as a Public Health IssueTutor Mentor Connectionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140800580077672326noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12044401.post-85186609762908943342008-01-21T12:18:00.000-05:002008-01-21T12:18:00.000-05:00Thanks for this post..I believe in personal implem...Thanks for this post..I believe in personal implementations. See I taught my daughter to read before kindergarten, took her to pre-school a few times a week to socialize, made sure she could count to 100 and knew all shapes, colors and how to write her name, address, and phone before too. I have always volunteered at her school with many programs ( despite myself suffering from little <A HREF="http://www.digestivecare.co.uk/Excess-acid---acid-indigestion-and-heartburn-treat_323_323_.html" REL="nofollow">Stomach acid</A> infection,) helped her and sometimes her friends with homework, and give her a whole pile of encouragement. I knew what she was capable of learning and I felt responsible for doing everything I could to help her take advantage of her abilities. ThisUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15537983145227677882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12044401.post-24890861904103558202007-10-08T12:01:00.000-04:002007-10-08T12:01:00.000-04:00Big Cities Connect!This report includes a list sho...Big Cities Connect!<BR/><BR/>This report includes a list showing the ten largest public school populations in the country, <BR/>with NYC being the largest with over 1 million youth, and Chicago being third largest with close to 430,000. Philadelphia is in the top ten with around 200,000 students. <BR/><BR/>I did a Google search to see what the school population was in other big cities like Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee, San Francisco, etc. <BR/><BR/>I was surprised to see how much smaller they are. They are not even in the top ten because student populations range from 50,000 to 100,000. <BR/><BR/>That's huge, but not close to the size of the top five. <BR/><BR/>I'm pointing this out because the size of the largest cities and the size of the school bureacracy in these cities makes it much more difficult to create the type of changes in policy and actions that would dramatically improve the <BR/>learning outcomes and career readiness for most of the kids living in poverty in our cities. While we understand the challenges, people in smaller cities don't, because they don't have the same problems of huge <BR/>neighborhoods of highly concentrated poverty. <BR/><BR/>This means that people in the larger cities can either try to solve the problems by working alone, in their own networks, or we can look for ways to connect via the Internet, to link our networks and borrow ideas and resources from each other. <BR/><BR/>I hope you'll look at the T/MC strategy, which is reflected in the various links off of the Tutor/Mentor Blog and that we can start a dialog between leaders doing strategic thinking in other big cities, and multi state corporations, and myself. <BR/><BR/>I look foward to hearing from you.Tutor Mentor Connectionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02140800580077672326noreply@blogger.com