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May 04, 2008
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON OF THE HUFFINGTON POST
By Profesor Martin Danenberg “El Quijote del GED”
Arianna Huffington says that one-third of eighth graders cannot read well, but she does not seem to know that forty million adults do not even have a GED. Yes that is the number. When are people who think they are knowledgeable going to become knowledgeable? See what she writes below about poverty in America. Most people who are deeply into poverty have probably never obtained a high school diploma or GED. This is one of the cancers that have plagued economic growth for decades. People who lack either a high school diploma or GED often cannot go on to higher education because they lack the diploma and the knowledge to go on to a higher level of education and lifestyle. People are reading her Huffington Post all over the world, but they are not learning that the GED in English, Spanish, and French around the world will impact on tens of millions of people who have not had the opportunity to finish school. This will not come close to ending poverty, but it will do much more than most other programs that people think will help.
The Inter American Development Bank just set up Yo Amo America with stars of Latin Music. We need to do something important like that here in America.
I have no greater heroes than the men and women who are working up close and personal--sometimes wrenchingly so--to turn lives around. But they will be the first to tell you that even if they never slept, they would never on their own be able to turn around the tragic realities that surround us--including the fact that America has more homeless children today than at any time since the Great Depression. The bottom line is that the task of overcoming poverty is too monumental to be achieved without the raw power of government appropriations.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Profesor Martin Danenberg May 4, 2008 09:36 PM | Noticias | GED Math