September 13, 2012
newsweek:

College grads and their student debt
[PHOTO: Peter Yang for Newsweek]

While most other debt falls, student loan debt rises, something is fundamentally wrong with this picture and we need to do something about it fast. 
1. Change the bankruptcy law back to allowing student loans to be released from debt
2. Make sure colleges and universities, especially public ones not to exceed a certain percentage of average median income. 

newsweek:

College grads and their student debt

[PHOTO: Peter Yang for Newsweek]

While most other debt falls, student loan debt rises, something is fundamentally wrong with this picture and we need to do something about it fast. 

1. Change the bankruptcy law back to allowing student loans to be released from debt

2. Make sure colleges and universities, especially public ones not to exceed a certain percentage of average median income. 

August 18, 2012
think-progress:

College degrees cost 1,120 percent more than they did 30 years ago. 

#EducationFail

think-progress:

College degrees cost 1,120 percent more than they did 30 years ago. 

#EducationFail

July 27, 2012
"You’re competing against young people in Beijing and Bangalore. They’re not hanging out. They’re not getting over. They’re not playing video games. They’re not watching “Real Housewives.” I’m just saying. It’s a two-way street. You’ve got to earn success. That wasn’t in my prepared remarks. But I’m just saying,"

President Obama, at the Urban League  told young audience members to “study” and that success had to be earned in a global economy.  ”Don’t just cheer and not study,” the President said to an enthusiastic crowd in New Orleans.

Dear Real Houswives, 

Don’t act like what he saying isn’t true because you know it is. In fact I often ask myself why I still watch these shows. So I take what he says with pride that my President cares enough about the American people that we need to wake up and realize we are living in globalization the scale at which we are competing on is not the local or state level its an international one so we need to start acting like it. 

July 20, 2012
"It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women"

— Kofi Annan, then UN Secretary-General, 2006 In Nicholas Krisof book “Half The Sky”, Chapter 11