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May 14, 2006
Dominican Conference Requires Community Action Hostos
By Profesor Martin Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
The 1er International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Dominican Studies Dedicated to Don Pedro Mir was presented this weekend at Hostos Community College in the Bronx. Presentation topics included: the purviews of languages, literatures and linguistics; social sciences and cultural studies; education and the public schools; political leadership and community empowerment; gender and sexual orientation; race, ethnicity, and the challenge of diversity; the place of Dominicans in Caribbean Studies; and the rapport of the Diaspora with the ancestral homeland in imagining the Dominican community globally.
Senator Efrain Gonzalez and Assembly Adriano Espaillat helped my educational campaign greatly. Gonzalez told the audience how he dropped out of school and earned a GED and I told everyone how Espaillat, Chairman of the Black and Hispanic Caucus in the State Legislature, arranged a GED Roundtable that I will be presenting on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 10:00 A. M. City Councilman Miguel Martinez told me that City Councilman Robert Jackson was telling him about my ideas and they are looking into the project that I feel will turn around thousands of poor families all over the city. My meeting with CUNY Trustee Hugo Morales quickly resulted in his desire to participate in mobilizing communities to take the Official GED Practice Test and finding those people who can pass the test without going to GED class and giving help to the others. Senator Juan M. Pichardo of Rhode Island, too, became interested in finding out more about my project to help his community. Assemblyman Luis Diaz and I had a long, fruitful conversation, and he is quickly becoming a great friend of my campaign.
I told the audience how the number of test takers on the Spanish GED test declined in New York from 5,005 to 3,463 and from 372 to 171 in Rhode Island. Both states were also below the national average in the last year of information provided to me by the American Council on Education. These numbers hurt the Hispanic Community. People in the audience agreed with me when I told them that we in the United States have helped about nineteen million get the GED and Latin America had never helped anyone. People have gone on to greatness after earning the GED here and large populations remain poor in Latin America because of lack of education. I asked the audience how they can mobilize their friends and family members who have not finished high school to take the GED. I find that too many people go to events as spectators and do not help the community.
People were pleased to find out that the Spanish GED will soon come to the Dominican Republic and several people including teachers and administrators want to come to my GED Roundtable for Hispanics in New York City. This Roundtable will be in June and exact date, time, and location will be announced this week.
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