This article starts with foster care and ends with an urgent cry for culture change in our family court systems. As a systems thinker and strategic planner, I organized these solutions into five strategies.
Education articles on Democracy Chronicles
It is clear that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth and to manage a modern democracy. Spreading quality education to everyone around the world is vital to progress.
Making Room For a New Generation of Leadership
A reason for the lack of leadership development is that most of the community meetings are attended or even run by people from our generation and a noticeable small representation of new recruits.
Scientific information is the key to democracy
Science can help the public address an uncertain future. Only a policy of openness will ensure a shared commitment
To Restore Democracy, Our Universities Should Teach It
Over the last two generations, American higher education has become unmoored from a once-shared mission: serving, and teaching, democracy. Now, we’re paying a heavy price. Colleges and universities are increasingly blamed for our widening divisions – by the left for economic elitism (we’re too expensive) and by the right for cultural elitism (we’re politically correct). […]
The 95% Failure Rate of Foster Care in America
Millions of families and children remain torn apart and psychologically devastated by the profit-driven abuses of foster care and the win-lose culture of family court
On Censorship and Political High School Yearbooks
The president has reached out to a group of New Jersey teenagers who recently made headlines
On the Role of Academics as Fact Checkers in Politics
When politicians cherry-pick data and disregard facts, what should we academics do?
Mamá Would Have Been 92 years Old in June 6
Mom like all matriarchs in our family came from a generation that had great work ethic and incredibly strong determination, something inherent in most working class people that learned to fend for themselves.
Mike Pence is Loyal, But is He Ready to Govern?
If the Trump campaign is found to have colluded with the Russian election meddling scandal then it is a real possibility that Pence knew all along. Will it be enough to cause him the Presidency?
How the Last Election Exposed the Worst American Election Flaws
The election of Donald Trump, if nothing else, emphasizes the many flaws in the US election system