As I have previously written, the report of the Sustainable Defense Task Force (See: www.comw.org/pda/fulltext/1006SDTFreport.pdf )
clearly pinpoints billions of dollars thatcan be trimmed from the U.S. defense budget without sacrificing national security. We need to develop the political will to make these cuts. We also need to identify priority areas for reinvesting these savings. Green technology is one such area. Urban education is another. The drain on our society from our inability to provide high quality education for inner city youth is so well documented that it need not be further described here. What I intend to do over the coming years is direct readers to model programs worthy of substantial tax dollar support.
One such program is the Academy for College Excellence developed by Diego Navarro at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California. A graduate of Harvard School of Business and a stickler for data-based evaluation, Navarro has created (and is now in the process of replicating) a program that lights a fire and stimulates success among community college students seemingly doomed to failure by all prior indicators.
The Academy for College excellence has an excellent website, which you can reach by clicking:
http://academyforcollegeexcellence.org/
Please check it out to get a rich understanding of this remarkable program. Also, if you wish, you can donate to the Academy now.
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