(Akiit.com) Moving on from high school to college is a big step for kids to take. It can be a very stressful time, and they will need a lot of love and support to make sure the transition is stress-free. There is plenty that you can do to help out ...
(Akiit.com) In many instances, the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action ruling upholding the University of Texas’s affirmative action program was overshadowed by a same-day order overturning President Obama’s executive order to ease illegal immigrants’ path to U.S. citizenship. World News Tonight With David Muir, while leading its broadcast with the ...
(Akiit.com) Last week the Supreme Court of the United States voted that President Obama exceeded his authority when he granted exemptions from the immigration laws passed by Congress. But the Supreme Court also exceeded its own authority by granting the University of Texas an exemption from the Constitution’s requirement of ...
(Akiit.com) The California legislature and Governor Brown now have all the ammunition they need to do what they should have done years ago. And that’s dump the outdated, outmoded, and grossly harmful Proposition 209. That’s the state amendment passed by voters two decades ago in 1996 that banned the use ...
(Akiit.com) There is a big problem in our educational system, and it is persistent. Black children are being kicked out of school more than White children on a regular basis and in large numbers, according to a white paper co-authored by the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), titled, “The ...
(Akiit.com) Beyond communication, there are several reasons why speaking English in America is beneficial: doing so promotes assimilation, unity and success. So why would the Obama administration issue a joint policy statement from his departments of Education and Health and Human Services advising educators to instruct children in the language ...
(Akiit.com) “If not for the teachers that I had at PS 276 in Canarsie and Mark Twain Junior High School in Coney Island, New York, I would not be alive today. Maybe I’d be in jail today. But those teachers, they chose to invest in me and to see hope ...
(Akiit.com) More and more Americans are heading to college every single. If you’re one of the aspiring academics preparing to start your course later this year, you’ll already be counting down the days. It won’t be long until you become a freshman. Higher Education is a wonderful time for developing ...
(Akiit.com) My life in California was punctuated by some of the best vocalizations ever recorded. Among these were the songs recorded by the awesome group, “The Fifth Dimension.” Although it was not their sole source, many of their more popular songs came from the musical, “Hair.” Hair was a Broadway ...
(Akiit.com) All businesses, no matter their size, will have some way to make themselves better. As the saying goes, there’s always room for improvement – and that’s equally as true here. At the end of the day, companies exist to make money, but you won’t be making much if you ...
(Akiit.com) This is the season of college Commencement speeches — an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times. Two themes seem to dominate Commencement speeches. One is shameless self-advertising by people in government, or in related organizations supported by the taxpayers or ...
(Akiit.com) If you’ve spent any time following the folk of Silicon Valley, a couple of bugbears come up over and over again. One is that the government is regulating everything to death and innovation is harder than ever. The other is that education is an industry that seems immune to ...