March 31, 2006
TOM SUOZZI CALLS IT INSANITY
Two and a quarter million adults in New York State, most of whom who can vote, do not have a high school diploma. Things are getting much worse in New York, and it is one of the worst states in the nation for GED. Even after many great accomplishments in office, Governor Pataki has let New York down by not doing much more. Minorities are falling further behind. Tom Suozzi has come out of his corner fighting for children and adults. What have you heard from Spitzer and the Republican candidates? Don’t they know there is an educational crisis that they are not addressing? The top Republican and Democratic elected officials have done some wonderful things with their staff members, but even those minority staff members have not made it their mission to promote the GED among adults. There are states that have Republican and Democratic governors that are three and four times better in the delivery of the GED than New York is. Isn’t it time for a change of leadership?
We are suspicious of people who are running for office and naturally so. We are used to name brands promoted to us quickly and efficiently. So it is with names like General Motors and Pataki or Chrysler and Spitzer. Tom Suozzi is a relatively unknown entity without his party’s support. He is like Hyundai was when it started trying to make it in the American market. Can he do it quickly and efficiently? You never know goes the saying, but let me reveal this to you. He is the first person running for political office at the governor’s level or higher that I have been to influence. He knows that there are two and quarter million adults in New York State who do not have a diploma and he did a good job of spontaneously answering my question to an audience of African Americans and Haitian Americans in the Akwaaba Mansion in Brooklyn last night.
He quickly talked about those people who are not competitive because they do not have the diploma and he referred to people who are outside of the free society, people in jails. So he realizes that this affects every aspect of society. If he becomes governor, he will see it affects so many of the parts of state government that he has integrated with great success in Nassau County, including housing, prisons, child care, and employment.
In his speech, Suozzi addressed educational issues that affect New Yorkers and New York City residents in particular. By telling those community oriented people that he would promote the GED (pointing out that he knows that I promote the GED) he caused heads to nod up and down. It was like being in a church and everyone saying Amen. After Suozzi’s speech and comments, about half of the people introduced themselves to me or introduced me to others. A real estate company with a power team of four representatives stated it wanted my assistance in helping the community and the Citi Health Training Center: School of Health Careers was interested because I have GED programs in the three official languages of the GED, and the French program can help Haitians who have difficulty in English language preparation. These men and women, who want to mobilize their communities, probably had been looking for someone’s help for a long time. They will soon be able to tell many community residents after four hours of GED practice testing that they can take the GED test immediately and receive their diploma soon after completing the test. In the church, this is often called a miracle. We have to put the message out to people like Ruben Stoddard and Ice-T as they move forward with plans to “educate” the youth in schools where they live that “real” crime prevention and gang participation reduction occur when you help the people who are in gangs and contemplating joining gangs. Recently someone that I met in Albany from Buffalo told me that they had held a conference with eighty-eight gang members. I told that community activist that I would have given the GED Practice Test to all those who had no graduated and he said “Oh! Wow! We should have done that.” Few people know that among my students was a three time loser that a judge called “a menace to society.”
I found the entire team of people working for Tom Suozzi to be genuinely interested in my GED campaign. One immediately looked at my work on the internet to present my articles to Suozzi. Other staff members and supporters and I engaged in GED discussions as they relate to the improvement of people’s lives and to a political campaign. I have been in touch with dozens of elected officials and very few of them have taken this kind of interest. In the Congress, there has been only one such staff member who compares to them. This kind of teamwork can make a great difference in government and provide much better service to people in New York. I would be very pleased to share my ideas and vision with any community and political affiliation is no problem. I have been a consultant already to the office of Governor Jeb Bush in Florida, working with his educational policy and budget analyst.
Don’t the people deserve much more from the next administration in New York? I know New York City and Long Island well and the Lower East Side, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, the South Bronx, Corona, Jamaica, Bedford Stuyvesant, Sunset Park, Hempstead, Roosevelt, Freeport, Wyandanch, Central Islip, Brentwood, and Riverhead are areas that need more than physical rehabilitation, new buildings and facades. When this message is spread from Sleepy Hollow to Buffalo, great educational changes will really make New York a great place for all.
Photo of Tom Suozzi taken at the Akwaaba Mansion in Brooklyn.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Posted by Ahorre at 08:00 AM
March 30, 2006
GED ROUNDTABLE OF WASHINGTON, DC
GED ROUNDTABLE OF WASHINGTON, DC
I would like to know why the GED Roundtable was poorly attended. The Latino Labor Council (LCLAA) wants me to do another presentation soon in Washington, DC and who could refuse such great friends? I will do another one soon. All influential Hispanic and African American organizations must attend and so do other influential organizations. I have been trying to wake up the nation and Puerto Rico. The latter had a drop from 19,997 people tested to only 9,998 in just one year. Puerto Rico is heading toward an educational disaster and the government is responsible. In the United States, the number of young adults who have not finished high school has increased from 1.5 million to 3.5 million, making it harder for Hispanics
They came from Richmond, Virginia and Bergen County, New Jersey to attend my GED Roundtable in the AFL-CIO Building in Washington, DC, but there were only four people at this important roundtable. The GED Testing Service was represented, two labor organizations, and the GED administrator from Virginia. It was a wonderful meeting in which the people who wanted GED help, specific help, were able to meet the people who could direct them to where they could go and what they have to do. Missing from the meeting were my Salvadoran friends, leading Hispanic organizations, and other leading institutions. I am not here to mention names, but all of the best known institutions were invited and they did not show up.
The representative from New Jersey came hoping to find out how his organization, 32BJ, could begin a GED Testing Center in New York. Even before the meeting began, I told him that a representative from the GED testing service would be present and he was and that help was on the way. I see this encounter as a mini revolution because once that GED Testing Service opens up, other labor organizations across New York State and other states where labor has a foothold will open GED Testing Programs in their GED programs. This will help increase the number of diplomas earned and bring greater benefits to union members and their families. Mayor Bloomberg, in New York, I am sure can be helpful because he and organized labor are collaborating. When that testing center opens, it can help the entire community.
The representative from the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union wants to start GED programs in North Carolina. She was given the contact information for the state administrator and I will provide her with my knowledge in the future.
The Virginia administrator indicated that his state’s numbers have gone up since 2002 and those numbers are approaching the numbers achieved around 2000. Spanish GED testing and diplomas have dropped there, in Maryland, and Washington. The numbers have fallen sharply all over our nation, but there were states that went up including Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, and North Carolina (going from only 4 in 2003 to 718 in 2004). There were a few states with slight increases and slight decreases. The numbers went from 37,796 down to 23,719 in one year. Three states still have not tested anyone in Spanish. More people tested in Spanish in the Virgin Islands than in Alaska, Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia. Ask the administrators of GED why.
Photo of the Samuel Gompers conference room in the AFL-CIO Building. This room should have been filled with representatives of dozens of organizations.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Posted by Ahorre at 07:51 PM
NATIONAL IMMIGRANT FORUM NEEDS EXPANDED LEADERSHIP: GED
By Profesor Martin Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
Frank Sharry of the National Immigration Forum has done great work, but immigration groups are failing people all over the United States. My GED message has to become part of the movement to help people. It takes only five seconds at each meeting to tell the people to take the GED, a relatively easy test to prepare for.
When I was a youth, Channel 5 used to have a message at 10:00 P.M. In five seconds it would say every night, “Do you know where your children are?” So the excuses have to stop and the Hispanic community has to be educated by all, not just by the government. But if people on both sides in the Capitol compromise and hand the immigrants their version of a three-fifths compromise (see the Constitution) and President Bush achieves his “guest worker program” for immigrants, that program should be supported with funds that will permit all immigrants to obtain a GED.
The immigration movement triumphed in the Senate during the week of March 27, 2006 in getting the Senate to eliminate the threat of making it a felony to help illegal immigrants. With all of the talk about the Catholic Church and community groups, I still do not hear Congressman Peter King talk about the fact that his bill places members of families in danger too. Family members reserve the right to help their family members. In some families people are residents and even citizens and they support illegal residents who came after them. Not since slavery, the holocaust, and the struggle against communism have we seen such harsh thoughts and we have seen them in America, which shows that Peter King and others who support such ideas have not learned from history. They may call themselves leaders, but if we look at the immigration probably deeply, they are bad leaders, leading America to at the least a small depression and increased racism.
I often think about President Franklin D. Roosevelt making the St. Louis, a boat filled with Jews seeking to save their lives, return to Europe where those people were killed in the Holocaust. If we Jews had helped our family members and friends, we would have been criminals under the act proposed by Congressman King. Irish, Poles, Chinese, and others, too, would be considered criminals for helping their people. If only we Jews had known, I told a reporter for Hispano Americana of Long Island in an interview by the Capitol demonstration that our people did not know we could cross the border as Hispanics and others to illegally, we, too, would have helped our people with support. We would have hired coyotes for them and built an “underground railroad” to transport them to safety to our homes.
The failure of the immigration movement in my eyes has been that it has not put the word out to the immigrants about the GED. Each letter, newsletter published could have used my information for Hispanics and other immigrants. Look at what is happening now. In less than ten years, the numbers of youth without a diploma has skyrocketed from 1.5 million to 3.5 million. And as I predicted there has been a great decline on the Spanish GED, going from 37,796 candidates in 2003 to 23,719 in 2004. The people in charge of GED all over the country knew it was coming, because it happened on the English GED in 2002 and they did not learn from history also. New York went down a lot and Texas, Florida, and California went down in testing even much more. All of this hurts the competitiveness and future of the Hispanic community.
I want Mr. Sharry and the Reverend Lawson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to do much more than they have done. I think they can start immediately. Mr. Lawson can also focus his attention on the millions of African Americans who are often treated like “illegal immigrants” who have not graduated from high school. The Civil Rights Movement never really helped this underclass of poorly educated people.
Photo of Frank Sharry taken outside the Capitol on March 27, 2006 during the rally there. I spoke with Mr. Sharry and told him that I saw him in the Presidential Forum in El Salvador two years ago and I like forward to talking to him about my ideas soon. We have to join to help millions of people now.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Posted by Ahorre at 09:14 AM
March 25, 2006
America's Idol Stirs Controversy
Kevin Covais should not have been the subject of this controvery, but in politics things happen. Tom Suozzi was attacked in the media, but he is not being praised for one of his important political views. The media all over New York State should be covering his remarks about the GED. We need music idols to help the people who helped make them famous. American, African-American, and Latin stars can help the poor and under-educated in many ways by promoting the GED as a way to improve the lives of people who buy their CD’s. This can be done all over the world too.
County Republican spokesman Ed Ward, it was reported in New York Newsday on March 22, 2006, blasted Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi’s use of electronic mail to county employees in which Mr. Suozzi asks for support of America’s Idol contestant Kevin Covais. Yes it costs the tax payers money to send an email to country employees, but on the same day that I read the article I noticed a well placed sign on Hempstead Turnpike at the Veterans Memorial. The Republican elected officials of the Hempstead spent money, government money, and posted this sign in support of Kevin Covais.
My Ward contends that Mr. Suozzi is trying to “rig” a national election. Are we rigging the results of the World Series and Super Bowl or a heavyweight championship fight when we root or support one side against the other? We are often instructed to cheer loud to show support and distract the other team’s efforts. Does he think that Mr. Suozzi is the only one who is asking for support of a local favorite across the nation?
It seems to me that Mr. Ward did not know that his own favorite party leaders, using the name of the town of Hempstead, had that poster made up to attract an even greater audience of people who drive, run, or walk by it. Were the elected of officials not rigging the election because they are Republicans?
I would like to see Mr. Ward use his influence to help the poor and minorities who have dropped out of school to earn a GED (including undocumented people, yes illegal residents). Mr. Suozzi, for the record, has spoken in his recent speeches about this great need of putting a GED in the hands of more than a million people in New York. I would suggest that both Ward and Suozzi organize a concert by Kevin Covais to raise awareness and money to help people who need a GED.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Posted by Ahorre at 07:00 PM
March 18, 2006
Get Your GED Diploma
GED YOUR GED EVEN IF YOU COMPLETED FIFTH GRADE OR LESS
You do not need to almost complete high school or the junior high school years to pass the GED. If you are a good reader and know your basic math, you have a chance to get a GED. Statistics show that this is true. If you are in this category, you can be one of the people who earn a GED.
Among the people who pass the GED are those who completed the fifth grade or less. My graduate, Fidel Cabrera, only completed the second grade in El Salvador and GED teachers all over the country know they have had students who were in the same category. Many of these adults do not have the confidence, but they make up for it with knowledge that is more than sufficient to do well on the GED.
The percentage of people who pass the GED who had less than sixth grade is low. That is expected in a large group of people. In 2003 only 0.5 percent of passers had less than sixth grade attainment. People in this category passed in forty-six states and the national average was 0.4 or less than one for every hundred people, but the statistics are more revealing than that. Vermont was more than five times higher than the national average at 2.2. New York was under the national average at 0.3. The percentage was slightly higher for people who finished the sixth grade at 0.5.
Here is something interesting about the statistics for passers of the Canadian exam. The national average there was 2.9 percent for people who completed less than the sixth grade and British Columbia had a rate of 8.1. The statistics for British Columbia and Vermont show us that people with less than sixth grade are clearly underrepresented in other states among the graduates of the GED.
Based on all of these statistics, I must conclude that there are hundreds more people in each state who have not passed the GED but who either have the knowledge to pass or can acquire the knowledge to pass with some study or by completing a GED course or by studying many of the chapters in the GED book.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Posted by Ahorre at 10:26 PM
March 08, 2006
Fighting For GED and Common People
By Profesor Martin Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
I would suggest that all people who have earned a GED across the United States, all people who need a GED, and the educational community in general write letters of praise to a man who is committed to helping people who have dropped through the cracks of society. I am sure people that you know and love will soon be able to get help that has never been available before. The GED is in the gubernatorial race in New York State to help hundreds of thousands of people quickly. Spread the word that someone is fighting for you!
The Tom Suozzi for Governor Campaign is already driving home the critical point that the GED is vital to two and a quarter million adults in New York State. At the Black and Hispanic Annual Conference in Albany recently when I mentioned those statistics to him during a party, he said, “I know! Isn’t that horrible?” By the next Saturday, he was talking about the GED in his speeches. With slightly less than half of the Hispanic adults needing a GED and African Americans in great need, too, for the first time in history hundreds of thousands of people more may have access to help that has never been given to them. Gang members, unemployed people, our youth who have dropped out of school and some of them are hanging out on the streets, housewives who had their children early (teen pregnancy), Christians studying in Bible Institutes, people in prisons and former inmates, people working in low skill jobs for low pay, and immigrants who are legal and undocumented will have better access to programs because Tom Suozzi is leading the way. He has been described as fighting for the people and bringing the GED issue out into the open will benefit minorities and poor who need more education badly. He is blazing a trail that former governors did not try to create for the people. I think that Hispanics and African Americans will easily find in his plan for New York a program that will not leave anyone behind. Since people of all ethnic groups drop out of school, all people can unite to benefit the education of those people who have been denied so many of the benefits of a system that requires people to complete their education.
People love to take pictures with famous people and here I am at a party (years ago) with Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi. In the last several months, my message to Mr. Suozzi has been reaching him. I think that is an amazing accomplishment because many of us outside the system believe that officials in the national, state, and local governments are not paying attention to us and not doing a good job. And the polls show it. When a person, like myself, who is not part of an organization and is more or less just your average person, like tens of millions of Americans, and the County Executive pays attention, this is a great moment in democracy. I have talked with over a hundred elected officials and very few are paying attention to me. I have walked the halls of Congress and the Senate and only two offices among more than a hundred are participating with me in my GED campaign (Congressman Hinojosa and Senator Clinton). All of this will change soon because of the role Tom Suozzi is playing.
Tom Suozzi is not responsible for the education of people in his county, but he is speaking out a time when members of the Board of Regents (appointed by Governor George Pataki) are worried about the terrible statistics of graduation rate on Long Island. Many of these youth will fall through the cracks. My fear is that these same terrible statistics will reveal themselves in Westchester and many other counties upstate. It is time for all of us to unite around this important issue. We can really make the family and community stronger by helping those people who have been left out.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Posted by Ahorre at 07:02 AM
March 04, 2006
El GED es una Bendicion
Hace dos años en una mesa redonda en California con el ex Secretario de Educación Rod Paige, algunos hispanos lamentaron que los hispanos no le gustan estudiar. La verdad es hay muchos que le gustan estudiar para mejorar sus vidas y hay otros que dicen que la educación no pone nada en la mesa. Vamos a concentrarnos en los tres hasta cuatro millones de hispanos sin un diploma de la high school y crearemos una comunidad mucha más competitiva y fuerte por la bendición del GED.
Llegaron de Corona, Elmhurst, Richmond Hill, College Point, Manhattan y varias comunidades del Bronx para tomar el examen de práctica del GED. Mexicanos, peruanos, ecuatorianos, puertorriqueños, dominicanos y guatemaltecos llegaron para obtener apoyo. Creo que la orientación es importante, de modo que después de una sesión breve, todos entraron en una sala para tomar el examen; algunos llegaron tarde y comenzaron su examen sin el beneficio de la previa orientación. Cinco de treinta y uno, en mi opinión profesional, pueden pasar el GED ahora mismo. Los otros necesitan mucho estudio. Dentro de tres horas identificamos los que están más listos para pasar.
Una joven del Bronx pasó fácilmente el examen de práctica oficial en la Iglesia Pilgrim United Church of Christ, 1800 Grand Concourse (esquina de la calle 175). Ella está asistiendo a clases en una high school de su condado, pero ya tiene veinte años de edad y un hijo y está pensando en trabajar. Su mamá leyó el artículo sobre el evento en El Diario La Prensa y su hija llegó, con poco conocimiento del GED. Sus notas son excelentes (800, 550, 800, 520 y obtuvo 22 de 25 preguntas) y ella se encuentra dentro del grupo del primer cinco por ciento de la nación. Con el GED en su currículo de trabajo, ella puede obtener un trabajo mejor y aunque necesita diez créditos más para completar la high school, ella puede cumplirlos después de recibir su diploma de GED. Cuando le mencioné, después de su examen, que se necesita solamente un poco más de la mitad de las respuestas correctas, ella reaccionó con confianza por primera vez. Un cambio importante en su vida está en el aire gracias a los esfuerzos del Reverendo José Lantigua y su personal en la iglesia del Bronx. Esta iniciativa en realidad es una bendición para todas las comunidades en la ciudad de Nueva York.
Dos otras personas me contaron como fallaron anteriormente el examen del GED, una en la literatura y la otra en la redacción. La primera mujer falló por un solo punto y no ha retomado el GED desde 1997 y la otra falló porque su composición no era aceptable (200 puntos en la redacción). La segunda mujer criticó la instrucción que recibió en un community college, donde un maestro pasó demasiado tiempo enseñándole matemática y muy poco en darle instrucciones de cómo redactar un buen ensayo.
Otro joven nos agradecía la oportunidad de tomar este examen en la iglesia del Reverendo Lantigua a la vez que se quejaba de la poca atención que le dan los políticos de nuestra ciudad a esta necesidad tan inminente que tienen muchos de nuestros jóvenes y adultos hispanos de programas como estos que son en realidad una bendición para nuestra gente.
Contacte el Reverendo Lantigua 718-716-5552 para obtener información para el próximo evento en su iglesia. Vamos a tener un evento en la Iglesia El Camino en Brooklyn. Contacte el Reverendo Juan Castillo 718-439-7679.
La foto muestra el grupo en la Iglesia Pilgrim United Church of Christ en el Bronx. Voy a abrir otros centros en Washington Heights, en Manhattan con el apoyo de la Salvation Army y un centro en la Iglesia El Camino. Espero abrir veinte o más centros durante el próximo mes en New York. Es muy fácil reproducirlo en cualquier pueblo en los Estados Unidos.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Posted by Ahorre at 10:54 AM
February 28, 2006
El Examen de Practica Oficial del GED
MOVILIZACION DE GED ES MOVILIZACION DE LA COMUNIDAD
El examen de Práctica Oficial del GED, como el famoso juego de Monopolio, ofrece una manera rápida para obtener beneficios. Haga el examen de práctica, evitemeses de estudio y ahorre su tiempo y su dinero. Pase el examen de práctica y vaya directamente al examen real.
Sinceramente, hasta dos millones de hispanos sin un diploma de la high school pueden obtener su diploma de GED en esta manera, pero no es conveniente para ellos tomar el examen de práctica. En una iniciativa de fe con las iglesias, Profesor Martin N. Danenberg “El Quijote del GED” y el Reverendo José Lantigua comienzan la tarea de movilizar y la atribución de poder a las personas en las iglesias y las personas afuera de las iglesias (todo el mundo) por la educación va a llegar a un grupo más alto. El Reverendo quiere mandar centenares a las universidades, incluso las universidades cristianas. Ahora mismo la superación está en sus manos. Se ofrece el examen de práctica en inglés y español a la comunidad Miércoles, 1er Marzo en la Pilgrim United Church of Christ ubicado en 1800 Grand Concourse en el Bronx. Las horas son desde las 6:30 PM hasta las 10:00 PM. Venga con unos otros que necesiten el GED. El servicio es gratis. Llame 718-716-5552.
Profesor Martin N. Danenberg “El Quijote del GED”
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Posted by Ahorre at 07:49 AM
December 27, 2005
The GED Roundtable
THE GED ROUNDTABLE
The Hispanic community needs a united Hispanic community, building a strong bridge for people here that stretches into Latin America bringing the GED to their loved ones, English language acquisition, and finally literacy in Spanish. The new waves of immigrants should come here better prepared than the previous ones.
There is no evidence that No Child Left Behind will produce a huge benefit to the children that it is serving. Can the Hispanic community wait the ten to fifteen years that it takes to see if the third graders will progress to the level of other students in our nation?
I hope not! The time to act to improve the family and community is now. Forty-three percent of the Hispanic adult population has no high school diploma or GED and this situation is making big waves that hurt the community. People are unemployed, in jail, victims of domestic violence, stuck in jobs without good benefits, and far from obtaining professions and they are falling farther and farther behind each year. Refer again to the sentence asking if the Hispanic community can wait ten to fifteen more years to see results. We can produce results in five years by doubling and tripling the number of Hispanics who take the GED each year and send a strong message to the children that they have to aspire to greater heights than their parents.
The leaders of Hispanic organizations have their degrees and have succeeded by sacrificing a lot or by coming from families with economic advantages. Many of these leaders quit school themselves, took the GED, and went on to higher education. Their families are progressing, but it is time for all of them to reflect more about how to help others. GED has to be on their plates. Do not tell me there is no room. I believe that one in every ten dollars used for scholarship money for college should go to helping clean up the GED problem. I have been ready for five years to help, but the Hispanic community remains unorganized, no great leaders and no think tank to eliminate this problem. Now is the time to create that think tank.
The NAHP can bring together the NALEO, NCLR, LULAC, LCLAA, HCREO, CHLI, ASPIRA, SER, MANO, MALDEF, all of the consulates of Latin America, and other organizations to bring greater awareness of the problem and to bring them toward the solution. The solution is within your reach right now, because I have the plan. This roundtable for success and achievement must be established if the Hispanic community is to be brought up to the level of other ethnic groups.
As I prepare to bring the GED to the Dominican Republic, then El Salvador and Central America and possibly Mexico, I know my goal is to build a bridge of educational resources that families here and in the country of origin have never had. This bridge will make it easier than ever before for the new wave of immigrants coming here from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico. Your newspapers reported the disasters that hurt the poor in those countries. People are crossing our borders and my message will never reach them and their family members without an organized Hispanic community.
Two years ago, in Spanish newspaper, I called for the Million Hispanic March to the GED and this then I have achieved international recognition. The mobilization to the GED need not be expensive. In fact I am sure we can mobilize those people at a cost of approximately $100 a diploma. Normally it costs thousands of dollars to help people in the classroom to earn a diploma. Recently as a testimony to my efforts, I was told that sixteen adults, parents of children in a New York City school, passed the GED without going to call and at no cost to society except the cost of taking, administering, grading, and sending the diploma to those people. Hundreds or thousands of people in each state could do the same thing each year if they only knew what those sixteen learned from me in forty-five minutes. Hispanics all over the country can obtain my help by correspondence. There is no waiting list, no summer vacations, no winter breaks, no need to find a ride to get to a class, no doors closed because the individuals have to work weekdays and cannot attend classes, and no excuses. I am ready, willing, and able to help Hispanics here and abroad. My network is that wide.
Photo of Profesor Martin visiting the office of Congressman Ruben Hinojosa of Texas.
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Posted by Ahorre at 11:04 AM
December 13, 2005
Wyclef Jean and Herman Mendoza Unite People
By Profesor Martin N. Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED” - The unity of Haitians and Dominicans is important. More than two years ago, in a hotel in Punta Cana, a Dominican told me that he expected much more violence between those two groups and we know that there has been an escalation of violence that we do not like. Innocent people are having their lives upset and destroyed. Today’s big news is in Iraq and we do not want the Dominican Republic to fall into that category of news soon.
Please inform your co-workers who are Dominican and Haitian about the One Voice Event on February 11, 2006, co-sponsored by Haitian recording artist Wyclef Jean and Dominican Pastor Herman Menodoza taking place at P.S. 19 in Corona, New York in the borough Queens. And please inform your community. Come as organizations and/or as individuals with friends. Call Herman Mendoza to find out more about this event. The future of millions of people is at stake. Do we need a new disaster where people are well informed in advance and no appropriate action is taken?
You have a month to publicize this event and make plans to attend or delegate some people who are willing to attend and join with us.
You can see that I am one of the guest speakers too. I give thanks to Herman Mendoza for recognizing the role that education will play in improving people’s lives and bring peace. Let us work toward bringing the GED to both Dominicans and Haitians in the United States, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and around the world, I am telling it can be done and it can be done now, today.
I want to thank the Haitian community for being the first one to accept my offer of help with the GED. My work in Spring Valley at the Konbit Neg Lakay has resulted in more than twenty graduates in French and my relationship with the Haitians United of Massachusetts is extremely special and it actually gave me the opportunity to speak from City Hall in Boston to people who attended the flag raising and to a Haitian audience on Radio Nouveaute.. I also want to thank President Leonel Fernandez, his government, including staff members of consulates and the Dominican people for taking me into their hearts and helping my educational campaign grow immensely. I wish I could teach in each of your communities, but I am Profesor Martin of the Consulate of El Salvador and I will not teach classes anywhere else, not even for money.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
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631-348-1341
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Yele Haiti, Stepping Stones Ministries, Naleo, and The Booker T. Washington Learning Center
Present: ONE VOICE
A Time for Haitians and Dominicans to come together for an educational/spiritual seminar to promote Awareness and Unity
“And have made of one blood all nations of men“ Acts 17:26
Multiple Grammy Award-winner Wyclef Jean, founder of Yele Haiti, a foundation dedicated to the children of Haiti, in partnership with Stepping Stones Ministries, Naleo Educational Fund, and The Booker T. Washington Learning Center present One Voice – An ongoing program of Humanitarian Relief, Spiritual Counseling, and Educational Empowerment for people of Haiti and The Dominican Republic. A unique collaboration between Haitians and Dominicans in the tri-state area, One Voice seeks to foster cross-border relations between the people of these two Caribbean nations sharing one island and living in the United States.
Mission: To unite Dominicans and Haitians through Spiritual Guidance, Education, Mutual Support, and Aid.
Our mission will be accomplished through the collaborative efforts of organizations that will provide:
1. Educational information relating to naturalization - Naleo
2. Voter Education - Naleo
3. Spiritual counseling and aid - Church of the Resurrection and Stepping Stones Ministries
4. GED preparation/pre-test preparation - El Quijote del GED and The Booker T. Washington Learning Center
Goals: To be a continuous voice for the Haitian and Dominican Communities with the intention of bringing awareness of important common issues and offering resources and solutions to improve Haitian and Dominican relations.
Objective: To host a series of special events.
Our Coming Event will take place some time in February with a collaboration of organizations dedicated to the well being of Haitian and Dominican people. Our hosts will be well-known Radio host of “Our Children’s Hour,” Rev. Leroy Ricksy, LMSW. He will be joined by Herman Mendoza, Director of Stepping Stones Ministries and Julissa Ferreras, Director of Civic Education with Naleo. Numerous artists will be present. There will be giveaways for all guests, free admission and musical entertainment featuring Bert Bocachica organizer of Rap fest. We are anticipating over three hundred Dominicans and Haitians to attend this special event. We will have food and refreshments for our Guests.
Special Guests: World known hip-hop artist, Wyclef Jean, local elected officials, spiritual leaders, educational professors, health counselors, Gilberte Rosarion, MD, and the Honorable Judge Donna Mills Supreme Court-New York City, and Councilman Hiram Monserrate, Rap fest organizer Bert Bocachica
Location: NYC Community School P.S. 19 98-02 Roosevelt Avenue
Corona, NY 11368 Date: February 11, 2006
Time: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Event Coordinator: Herman Mendoza
Contact: Herman Mendoza 917.841.5899 / Julissa Ferreras 646.227.0797
Supporters: Wyclef Jean Foundation “Yele Haiti”
Stepping Stones Ministries
Naleo-Educational Fund
The Booker T. Washington Learning Center
Local Churches
El Quijote del GED
Gilberte Rosarion, MD
Rap Fest-Bert Bocachica
“I rise today to recognize the humanitarian efforts of Mr. Wyclef Jean and Herman Mendoza in addressing the needs of the Dominican and Haitian communities through their newly formed organization, ``One Voice'' in a much-needed effort to create goodwill between Haitians and Dominicans on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.”
Honorable Charles Rangel, Congressman
House of Representatives
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Posted by Ahorre at 12:44 PM
November 28, 2005
Programa de GED Program 2003 Results
IS YOUR STATE AS COMPETITIVE AS YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS SAY?
The conditions that resulted this year in violence in France exist in all states in the United States, but some states have to be more concerned than others. The failure to educate minorities, immigrants, and the poor will bring our political system to its knees
By Profesor Martin N. Danenberg “El Quijote del GED”
Here is very critical information about the target percentage that passed the GED in 2003. You can see the states that are below the national average (1.2 percent) by state: Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Texas, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, California, District of Columbia, and Delaware. Those states that are at the national level are Arizona, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Tennessee, and West Virginia. No state compares with Alaska with 4.6.
The states with percentages below the national level (44.9 percent) for women include Wyoming, Mississippi, Iowa, Colorado, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, North Dakota, Kansas, Montana, South Dakota, Missouri, Nevada, Utah, South Carolina, Connecticut, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Alaska, Michigan, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Delaware. Wyoming is 44.7, Maryland 38.1, and Delaware is 31.2. These figures may indicate that women’s rights groups ought to be focusing on the GED issue for women now.
Statistics of those who passed the test in 2003 show that 19.3 percent of the known population is Hispanic and 14.6 percent is African American. New York has the highest percentage for Hispanics and the District of Columbia for African Americans. Their percentages are far higher than other locations. Florida has a low percentage of people who are Hispanic and African Americans are low in New York. Although higher percentages exist in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, the percentages are under 30 percent in each of those states, making Whites much more competitive there. Maryland is 37.9 percent (for African Americans) which puts it in second place and there are no other states above 30 percent. It is quite possible that African Americans are falling behind in education levels.
In French GED, New Jersey started testing in 2003 (it did not in 2002), testing 207 and New York increased its lead testing 1,211. There were only 1,577 tested in 2003 in the United States. The absence of anyone tested in most of our nation, but especially Florida and Massachusetts, shows unequal delivery of public services. Ohio started testing people in Spanish in 2003 (it did not in 2002), testing 44, but several states did not test anyone in Spanish and those states have Spanish dominant residents. This again shows unequal delivery of public services. Nobody tested in Spanish in Canada in 2003 and only 333 in French, mostly in New Brunswick. Quebec is not part of the system and is becoming less and less competitive each year because it does not give the GED to its residents.
Please feel free to contact me about getting more information about this very important national issue. I would strongly suggest that the Governor’s Conference hold meetings about the GED, unite, and eliminate regulations that make their residents less competitive. The states that I single out include, New York, Florida, Massachusetts, and Illinois, and North Carolina. Puerto Rico is on that list too. California and Delaware must be singled out for low delivery of GED’s to the people and the District of Columbia too.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
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631-348-1341
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Posted by Ahorre at 06:37 AM
November 22, 2005
WHAT THE MEDIA DID NOT TELL YOU DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES IN 2004
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SHOULD BE DEBATING THE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT GED CONTROVERIES. By Profesor Martin Danenberg “El Quijote del GED”
I WILL FOCUS ON BOTH LOCAL NEW YORK AND NATIONAL PROBLEMS FOR YOUR NETWORK’S NEEDS.
1. Governor Pataki has done nothing that I know of with the Governor’s Initiative that I sent to his assistant for him. This initiative has also been given to assistants who travel with him. The initiative calls for him to tell the people in his state to take the GED test, to provide a letter for all teachers in the state to help motivate the parents of children in their classes to take the GED, and to do a faith based initiative with churches for the GED.
2. New York City GED programs usually show the public the high percentage of students who pass the GED, without showing the decline in the actual numbers of students who have taken and passed the GED.
3. New York City GED students are forced to pass a practice test with a much higher score than the real test, contributing to fewer diplomas in the hands of city residents and more students dropping out of what is already considered a school program for dropouts. The students feel that their rights are being violated and that is true and the rights of parents are being violated because they have no say in the arbitrary and capricious practice test score.
4. GED students in NYC are not allowed to take home books and are encouraged this way to buy books, which is a violation of Chancellor’s regulations. The GED book only costs about $12, which is almost nothing for a major classroom book these days.
On a national level, these are major problems.
1. New Jersey is the only state today that has higher passing scores than all the other states and territories. The minimum is 410 all over the USA but NJ requires 420 in Writing and 450 in Math.
2. Illinois requires people to take and pass a test on the constitution of that state before a GED will be granted to a person who passes the GED. The governor’s office was informed and I know of nothing that has been done.
3. Puerto Rico requires its residents to pass the English Language exam before it will give a diploma to someone who passes the Spanish GED.
4. Many states do not give the French GED at all. Two states with large Haitian populations do not give the test in French and they are Massachusetts and Florida.
5. Colorado decided to do something that is very helpful to bilingual students who often drop out of school and to adult ESL students. Hispanics can take the GED in both Spanish and English at the same time. In the other states and Puerto Rico, people who start the GED in English must finish in that language, and of course if they start in Spanish or French they must finish the test in the language that they started with. The decision of Colorado was a great move to permit people who are bilingual to show they can demonstrate their knowledge best in whichever language they are stronger in on each of the 5 individual GED subjects.
6. In 2002 when the new GED test came out, there was a drop of about 45% in the numbers of people who took and passed the GED. We should keep in mind that there was a large rise in 2001 due to people rushing to finish a test that everyone knew was easier than the one that would replace it, but still there was about a 25% drop in diplomas.
7. The same drop will occur on the Spanish and French tests this year, since they will be new tests.
8. Governor Schwarzenegger, to my knowledge, has not done anything with the same Governor’s Initiative that I sent to Pataki.
I encouraged President Bush to become the spokesperson years ago by writing to Laura Bush and Mrs. Cheney and Ann Wagner of the Republican National Committee, but there was no follow up by the White House. I told Adam Chavarria, who is now the head of the President’s Special Commission for the Educational Excellence of the Hispanic Community, that the report left out the role that the GED plays in putting Hispanics on the Road to the GED. I asked him before he became the director to include a report on the GED, but I have seen no such report.
In the last few months, I have been in touch with three Hispanics in the Kerry campaign and asked them to help make the GED an issue in the campaign. They have told me that they have passed the information on to people higher up and they agree with my point of view. Nothing else has happened since I started doing this after the Democratic Convention.
A reporter who attends the debates must bring the GED into the Presidential Debates for the first time. He can use this information and ask the candidates what they would do to help at least ten million of the people mentioned below to get a GED and help improve the communities where they live. I call my plan “No Person Left Behind.”
Estimates are that between 30-45 million people in the United States have no high school diploma or GED.
The GED now accounts for 1 of 6 diplomas in the United States.
More than forty percent of adult Hispanics have no diploma at all.
You can see that a large percentage of prison inmates finally earn their GED in jail (see Governor’s Initiative).
YOU CAN NOW SEE HOW PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES ARE BEING LEFT BEHIND BY ADMINISTRATORS, ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
I HAVE MADE HISTORY IN FLORIDA AND NEW YORK BY MY RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS ACCEPTED BY GOVERNOR BUSH AND BY THE LIBRARY PROJECT IN CENTRAL ISLIP, NEW YOK. EVERY COMMUNITY NEEDS THIS PROJECT.
MARTIN N DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
GEDHOTLINE@AOL.COM
631-348-1341
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/GEDHOTLINE
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Posted by Ahorre at 11:37 AM
November 18, 2005
El Programa GED Dominicano
EL GED VA A FORTALECER
A DOMINICANO EN EL MUNDO
Por Profesor Danenberg
El GED es importante para todos los hispanos y dentro tres semanas el Reverendo José Lantigua y yo iremos a Santo Domingo para dar inicio a las conversaciones que pueden lograr la implementación de un convenio con el gobierno dominicano para traer el GED en español a este país del Caribe. La importancia del GED es enorme para todos los que han abandonado las escuelas por razones tales como:
la necesidad de ayudar a la familia económicamente, para la juventud embarazada, para los muchachos que solamente quieren jugar los deportes como el béisbol y nunca realizan sus metas, para los trabajadores en general incluyendo las policías y demás militares, para propiciar la creación de una clase obrera más educada (un adulto más educado) para los perezosos, para los miembros de las pandillas, para los alumnos flojos que despiertan años después de su abandono de la escuela, para los dominicanos deportados de otros países, para los estudiantes de los institutos bíblicos que necesitan un diploma para inscribirse en las universidades donde pueden estudiar teología y así poder competir efectivamente con una clase con más recursos financieros, para competir por los trabajos del mundo (es un requisito básico para obtener un trabajo en el Canadá en el nuevo convenio firmado por ambos países).
En el siglo diez y nueve el emperador del Japón mandó a su pueblo a educarse eliminando el analfabetismo en veinte años y ayudando a su país a llegar al estatus de poder mundial. Israel, después del holocausto, creó un sistema efectivo de educación con pocos recursos financieros. La Biblia también manda a que cada uno se eduque. El día para los cambios enormes en la sociedad dominicana está cercano y dentro de cinco años podremos fortalecer la familia dominicana, la comunidad dominicana y la república. Con la llegada del GED también nos llegará la dignidad de la mujer, la cual podrá educarse y competir por posiciones de empleo que nunca pensó poder obtener. Los dominicanos en general se van a superar. Podremos formar un puente entre los dominicanos en su amado país y los la diáspora como nunca ha existido. En vez de enviar solamente un regalo de Gucci o de Nike o Nautica, una botella de Hennessy o de Chivas Regal, una camiseta de béisbol de Sammy Sosa o de Alex Rodríguez o aún una película de Walt Disney, vamos a mandar todos los recursos necesarios para completar la misión de educar cada niño y cada adulto en la República Dominicana. Vamos a abrir puertas que han permanecido cerradas por siglos de ignorancia y vamos prender los cielos con educación, con esperanza y con dignidad, dando un nuevo significado al orgulloso de ser dominicano.
El Reverendo Lantigua, presidente de la Un ited Clergy Federation of Greater New York, con la asistencia eficaz de instituciones tales como ACDP, y con la nueva universidad dominicana ISATEC también espera abrir varios centros educativos para el estudio de la computación, el estudio del inglés como segundo idioma, y para la implementación de una escuela de enfermería bilingüe para que dominicanos (hembras y varones) puedan obtener trabajos en hospitales americanos después de graduarse. Ya un graduado de mi programa a distancia de GED en Long Island, Natalie De Los Santos, hace planes para inscribirse en este programa tan innovador . La vida es muy pesada para ella y con este programa ella puede regresar a su familia en Santo Domingo, estudiar una carrera y regresar a Estados Unidos para obtener un trabajo honroso, legal y lucrativo. En vez de construir solamente su casa en la capital, ella puede construir la casa y también un futuro exitoso.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
631-348-1341
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Posted by Ahorre at 01:36 PM
November 12, 2005
Education in Latino Public High Schools
Hispanic teens are more likely than blacks and whites to attend public high schools that have the most students, the highest concentrations of poor students and
highest student-teacher ratios, according to a new Pew Hispanic Center analysis. The findings came in one of three studies released today by the Center that examined youths in high schools and colleges.
The report found that more than half of Latinos (56%) attend the nation's largest public high schools -- those schools whose enrollment size ranks them in the 90th percentile or higher. That's compared with 32 percent of blacks and 26 percent of whites.
The report also found that about 37 percent of Latinos attend the 10 percent of schools with the highest student-teacher ratios. Just 14 percent of black students and 13 percent of whites attend those schools, which have a student-teacher ratio greater than 22-to-1 compared with the national average of 16-to-1.
While much of the research on the achievement gap between Hispanics and whites has focused on characteristics of students, the new study examines the structural characteristics of the high schools attended by different racial and ethnic groups.
"The characteristics of high schools matter for student performance," said Richard Fry, senior research associate at the Center and the author of the three reports. "Hispanic teens are more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to attend public high schools that have the dual characteristics of extreme size and poverty."
A second report released by the Center on the high school attendance of foreign-born teens points to the importance of schooling abroad in understanding the dropout problem for immigrant teens, finding that those teens have often fallen behind in their education before coming to the United States. Immigrant teens contribute disproportionately to the overall number of the nation's dropouts, often calculated as the number of school-aged teens not enrolled in school.
In a third report released found that the number of young Hispanics going to college is increasing. But the study, which examined the latest available enrollment data from individual colleges, found that the number of whites enrolling in four-year colleges is increasing even more rapidly -- widening a large gap between whites and Latinos in key states.
"When it comes to college enrollment, Hispanics are chasing a target that is accelerating ahead of them," Fry said.
Key findings from the three reports:
Structural Characteristics of Public High Schools Attended by Hispanic,
White and Black Youth
* One-in-four Hispanic high school students attends one of the 300 public high schools that are in the top decile in size of student enrollment and also have a high proportion of students eligible for free or reduced-price school lunches. That's compared with fewer than 1-in-10 black students and just 1-in-100 white students.
* Some, but not all, of the difference in school environment experienced by Hispanic students and others can be explained by the fact that the Hispanic population is concentrated in a few states that have larger public high schools, on average, than the rest of the nation.
The Higher Drop-Out Rate of Foreign-Born Teens
* Only 8 percent of the nation's teens are foreign-born, but nearly 25 percent of the teen school dropouts are foreign-born. Nearly 40 percent of these foreign-born dropouts are recent arrivals who interrupted their schooling before coming to the United States.
* Regardless of what country they come from, teens who interrupted their schooling prior to immigration are much less likely to re-enroll and complete their educations here.
* Many of the male recent arrivals with educational difficulties before migration are likely to be labor migrants, who came to the United States specifically to work.
Latinos and College Enrollment Rates
* Nationally, there was a 24 percent increase in the number of Latino freshmen in postsecondary institutions in 2001 compared with 1996. Among four-year colleges, Latino freshmen enrollment increased by 29 percent over the same period, and among two-year colleges, it increased by 14 percent.
* Between 1996 and 2001, first-time, full-time Hispanic freshmen enrollment in four-year colleges increased in the seven states where the nation's college-going Latino population is concentrated -- Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Texas. The largest gain -- 55 percent -- came in Florida.
* The growth in Hispanic enrollment was spread across both two-year and four-year colleges. Over the same period, growth in white enrollment tilted in the direction of four-year colleges. As a result, despite Hispanic gains, the gap between whites and Hispanics in four-year college enrollment actually grew larger in key states: In California, for example, a 9 point gap in 1996 widened to 16 points in 2001.
Posted by Ahorre at 09:47 AM
November 11, 2005
EL GED EN PUERTO RICO SUFRE Y EL PUERTORRIQUENO SUFRE
Por Profesor Martin Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
Yo sé lo que son los encantos
De mi Borinquen hermosa
Que solo la quiero tanto
Por siempre la llamaré preciosa
Gracias Marc Anthony
Tenemos investigar exactamente lo que los oficiales electos y los cantantes significan cuando hablan y cantan del amor de Puerto Rico. Hay que arreglar ciertas injusticias también, especialmente las injusticias fáciles a borrar.
Muchas estadísticas para Puerto Rico no son disponibles, las estadísticas sobre las edades de los candidatos y los porcentajes de los hombres y las mujeres principalmente, pero estoy seguro que Puerto Rico sufre por el escaso número de sus graduados de GED. Puerto Rico llegó solamente un por ciento de la población sin un diploma, debajo del nivel nacional. Con 18,386 graduados en 2002, el número declinó a 9,932 en 2003 o un cambio de 46 por ciento, lo peor en los Estados Unidos por mucho. Los puertorriqueños no deben sufrir y no tiene que sufrir, digo, porque sus líderes no saben lo que están haciendo, al prestar las palabras sagradas.
El gobierno de Puerto Rico debe contar al número total de diplomas (de la high school y el GED) de su juventud para determinar si Puerto Rico está progresando o dejando atrás a su juventud. Es posible que se haya mucha menos competitiva con estos números a ellos y los adultos. El gobierno de Puerto Rico debe apoyar a su pueblo ahora mismo con una campaña educativa para remediar la situación y los resultados pueden empeorarse en 2004 porque el nuevo examen es más difícil en español. La Fortaleza debe fortalece al pueblo puertorriqueño. Las decisiones de su gobierno han afectado mal a la familia puertorriqueña, la comunidad y las iglesias porque el GED permite al progreso de todos en un país donde el abandono de la escuela es muy alto.
También recomiendo que cada persona que falló el GED por la razón de no pasar el examen de ESL debe recibir su diploma o certificado del Departamento de Educación porque el Estado de New York da un diploma de esta categoría de candidato y un puertorriqueño solamente debe mudarse a New York para obtener su diploma sin rehacer el examen. Justicia para puertorriqueños grito. Justicia! Justicia! Puerto Rico yo te quiero! Puerto Rico yo te quiero! Esta situación ha existido por años y todos merecen su diploma por parte del gobierno.
El pueblo puertorriqueño puede estudiar conmigo. Mi puerta está abierta. Una salvadoreña llegó al Consulado de El Salvador esta semana y me dijo que ha fallado el GED dos veces, después de tomar clases en la high school donde vivimos. Esta mujer ya ha pasado la prueba de práctica de matemática en mi clase, una materia que ella falló por once puntos en sus exámenes reales (hace dos años, ella obtuvo 239 en el examen anterior, una nota suficiente bien). Estoy seguro que ella pueda pasar el examen dentro unas semanas o menos y la próxima vez que va a buscar un trabajo, como ella ha hecho muchas veces, puede presentar su diploma y finalmente obtener un trabajo que quiere.
También si el GED es un requisito para la universidad, su GED en español es válido como el GED en inglés para la admisión a la universidad. Hispanos de muchos países pueden inscribirse en las universidades de Puerto Rico con sus bachilleratos de cuatro años y posiblemente entienden menos inglés que los puertorriqueños fue fallan la materia de ESL. Puerto Rico ha creado un estándar doble. Los dominicanos y todos hispanos en Puerto Rico necesitan el diploma en caso de su regreso a sus países. El conocimiento de inglés debe ser separado del asunto o se puede dar los diplomas como hacen en New York. El progreso de Puerto Rico depende en la educación del pueblo puertorriqueño y no depende en las decisiones caprichosas de sus administradores.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
GEDHOTLINE@AOL.COM
631-348-1341
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/GEDHOTLINE
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Posted by Ahorre at 09:08 PM
November 08, 2005
BROOKLYN EBBETS FIELD: THE GED PROGRAM
By Martin Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
Ebbets Field was the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and later a housing project and a GED program were named after it. This was the last GED program that I worked in a long career in teaching. I give thanks to the many wonderful African American and Caribbean students, as well as Latino and non Hispanic students that I taught there.
Their complaints and protests helped create “El Quijote” before I was given that name by Emilio Ruiz of La Tribuna Hispana. I loved the Dodgers, but to tell you the truth, my memories of the Ebbets Field GED program are more profound. Do you think Jackie Robinson would be turning over in his grave if he could read
In New York City, minorities and the poor have been held back and are being held back in the area of the equivalency exam. A few years ago I wrote to French Education Minister Jack Lang, asking to meet with him about promoting the French equivalency of the baccalaureat, but nothing happened. Now there is violence in hundreds of French cities and zero tolerance only for crime is not paying off as crime has escalated. The news is revealing the lack of educational opportunities provided to the African, North African, and Arab youth. Will the same thing happen in the United States soon? Only time will tell.
The violence, at the time of the writing of this article, has spread into cities in Belgium and Germany too. I know people in France who would like to take the GED, and perhaps testing them is only around the corner. The English GED is now available online through Thomson ProMetric in different countries and I hope to bring the Spanish GED to Latin America soon, but it can be made available to small groups through the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C.
In France and in the United States, there is large unemployment among youth, tremendous desertion from school, and millions of people have not been assimilated. And in both countries, religious issues are playing a major role in building discontent. Life is not about dousing a middle age woman with gasoline and other forms of violence, but fifty million Frenchmen can be wrong and a hundred million Americans too. Let us unite and find the greatness of our nations. Let us bring people up instead of down!
Memories of the Ebbets Field GED Program!
Students were not permitted to take the practice test in the first month of school.
Everyone had to pass the Official Practice test with a cumulative score of 250 while the actual minimum passing mark on the real test was 225. And other students who got more than 250 were held back in different ways from taking the real GED right away.
Students were not allowed to take GED books home.
Students who passed the practice test were denied admission to the real test by the guidance counselor because of poor attendance.
Teachers told the students they did not have to teach, since the program was a learning center and the students had to do the work themselves.
A Puerto Rican female was placed in English GED when Spanish was clearly her stronger language, and she had only started studying English in New York a year before.
Students went on frequent class trips to museums, instead of preparing for the GED.
Students who were denied access to the real GED test left the school and came back later with their diplomas, waving the diploma in the faces of staff members, and/or did not return to show their diplomas.
Students were only allowed to take the practice test with the support of a few teachers.
Students who took a faulty math placement test were held back for weeks or months in pre-GED. In many cases, students that were in pre-GED that I tested on the Official Practice test did as well as students who were in the GED math class.
Students who failed the practice test with a cumulative score of less than 250 were denied permission to take the real test, while some others were secretly granted permission.
A paraprofessional read and graded the compositions, while teachers did nothing.
No analysis of the GED practice test was done, while at the Jamaica Learning Center each student got a printed copy of the analysis.
Students who could not get a passing mark on the practice test and at least five points higher than the minimum passing score on each part were held back and they were only allowed to be tested in the middle of the year.
Students’ complaints, including being cursed out by teachers, went unreported by the director.
Students’ GED practice tests were frequently lost and they had to be retested.
Students who obtained high passing scores on the practice test (around 300) were not told that they had the chance, with a little more study, to enter a four year college program, and those students did not receive any extra help.
Only about 30 students passed the GED and this site had about eight teachers, a director (who did not teach classes) and assistant director, three teaching assistants, a part time counselor, a full time guard and a half time guard, and a budget well above a half a million dollars.
About a month after I reported student comments about rumors of a threat of violence to be committed against the director and was ostracized by a united staff, a student was removed with a knife from the program as she tried to attack another student.
I was threatened by the Deputy Superintendent with disciplinary action after I appeared in an article about the students being held back in New York Newsday on December 19, 1999, the Deputy Superintendent telling me that the site director said that I was sending students to take the real GED in violation of school rules (which I was not and there was another teacher doing that).
Mayor Bloomberg is responsible for the GED programs in New York City. With certain victory in his grasp tonight, he must finally unite with New Yorkers, addressing the needs of its youth and keeping New York City far from the rioting that is witnessed by everyone in France. I suggest the establishment of my RPM Centers in libraries, boxing gyms, Police Athletic League programs, and other non-profit institutions including the Boys and Girls Clubs and programs in churches. Mayor Bloomberg must recognize, just like French Prime Minister Chirac that he has failed a large portion of the population during his term in office, but it is not too late.
The youth of New York and all adults need more help and we must bring the American dream to more people. Mayor Bloomberg focused only on school children in his campaign, but future campaigns must focus on the family. The people tearing the fabric apart in France are not third and fourth graders who failed their final promotional exams. The levees have broken in New Orleans, other governmental levees have broken in France, and New York City must not be next. No place should be next! From Bloomberg to Villaraigosa, there has to be change across our nation now!
FEEL FREE TO WRITE TO ME ABOUT GED PROBLEMS WHERE YOU LIVE.
Photo of Martin N. Danenberg with his late father wearing a vote for Leonel Fernandez for President of the Dominican Republic hat.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
GEDHOTINE@AOL.COM
631-348-1341
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/GEDHOTLINE
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Posted by Ahorre at 03:28 PM
October 29, 2005
El GED PERTENECE EN EL DEBATE
Por Profesor Martin Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
Reporté en Abril que Alaska fue el estado mejor en el GED porque entrega el por ciento más alto a sus residentes en un año. Las nuevas estadísticas de 2003 revelan que Alaska ha mantenido su posición, pero con resultados positivos porque subió el porcentaje desde 3.6 hasta 4.6. New York cayó 5.8 por ciento y posiblemente los residentes de la ciudad están perdiendo la competitividad. New York (41.7), también, está 25 entre los estados en la entrega del GED a las mujeres, debajo del promedio nacional (42.2).
Los reglones del Departamento de Educación de la Ciudad de New York violan a los derechos de los alumnos y los padres y el Canciller Joel Klein con el Alcalde Bloomberg cerró hasta 75 por ciento de los programas de GED. En mi opinión profesional, la comunidad hispana puede esperar menos diplomas durante la administración de Bloomberg, haciendo la comunidad mucha menos competitiva. Hable con los hispanos que apoyan a Bloomberg, porque creen que están trabajando con sus intereses en la mente. O estoy equivocado y piensan ellos que están trabajando con sus propios intereses en la mente?
Con el alto nivel del abandono en las escuelas públicas de la Ciudad de New York y el fracaso de la ciudad en el GED durante la administración de Bloomberg, donde piensa usted va a ir la comunidad hispana? Ha que investigar los diques en la educación en la ciudad de New York ahora mismo. El GED pertenece en el debate!
Foto del Asambleísta Estatal Jose Peralta de New York, apoyando al GED para los residentes de su comunidad, Jackson Heights, por el Profesor Martin.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
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Posted by Ahorre at 10:20 AM
October 26, 2005
National Hispanic Bar Association
THE PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL HISPANIC BAR ASSOCIATION ALWAYS SPEAKS OUT ABOUT LATINO SCHOOL DESERTION.
By Profesor Martin Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
In an effort to make sure that the next wave of immigrants from Latin America does not make the same mistakes as previous generations, including Puerto Ricans who did not have to apply for green cards or visas because they are citizens of the United States at birth, it is imperative for all Hispanic organizations to step back, take a close look at the past, and change the delivery of services to the community that they serve. The National Hispanic Bar Association is just one of thousands of organizations, but it does represent more than 25,000 lawyers across the United States and generates influence in all communities.
Nelson A. Castillo is the President of the National Hispanic Bar Association. I met him for the first time in the Consulate of El Salvador in Brentwood, New York almost four years ago. He was donating much of his time and knowledge to the Salvadoran people because of the love that he has for his people. Born in El Salvador, he immigrated to the United States, and by the age of seventeen, like so many Latino youth, he was out of high school working in a gasoline station.
A woman recognized his intelligence in conversations with him and told him that he could complete his education by passing the GED exam or what is known as the High School Equivalency. On HITN-TV on the television show Coast to Coast in Spanish, he told this story to a national audience of Hispanics. I was sitting alongside him with Malín Falu, the television hostess of the show, as he recounted how he bought a GED book, studied at home, and easily passed the GED test in English and went on to the university and then law school. His story is special but not unique because many people who have dropped out of school and taken the GED have gone on to great success, including the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Richard Carmona and Bill Cosby, the actor. Rosa Parks died this week and one of the many outstanding things she did in her life for herself and to be a role model was to finish up her high school education (at the age of 21) after leaving school because of family illness. Taking into account that the GED did not exist in 1934, this was a great personal accomplishment for her, and I am sure this is a little known fact among African Americans.
I did not invite Nelson Castillo on the show. He asked me if he could come on. This is the great difference that divides Hispanic leadership all over the world. He was there to help his people. He could easily have said, if I had asked him to come on, “Martin, I am too busy.” But he did not because among so many Hispanic leaders, he is one of the few who knows just how important the GED is to his community and speaks out about it all the time. Bill Cosby, for example, lost a great chance years ago to promote the GED among African American adults and now he is on tour trying to help raise the academic level of African Americans. It is still not too late for Bill Cosby to promote the GED the way Nelson Castillo does.
Nelson Castillo and I network together. My GED RPM Center is designed to help people who have deserted the classroom to quickly get a GED without going to class, just the way Nelson Castillo did. People who have little or no time cannot go to class to study. When a lawyer from Latin America first arrives in the United States and wants to become a practicing lawyer here, I do tell him to research the information in the library. What I do is tell him to call Nelson Castillo. This accelerates the person’s acquisition of information and promotes the revolution that I want to cause for people.
Photo of Nelson Castillo on the left with friends at the Presidential Forum of President Antonio Saca of El Salvador taken by Profesor Martin in November 2004.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY11749
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Posted by Ahorre at 06:33 AM
October 19, 2005
Clases de GED Clases de Ingles en Nueva York
El programa de Educación Continuada y Alternativa del Departamento de Educación de la ciudad de Nueva York, está ofreciendo clases gratuitas de inglés para adultos en diferentes sitios de la ciudad.
En Grosvenor House, 176 oeste de la calle 105, se ofrecen clases lunes y viernes. Las inscripciones son los martes y jueves a partir de las 9 a.m.
Para las clases en el Hudson Guild, 447 oeste de la calle 25 (entre las avenidas novena y 10ma.) puede registrarse los lunes, martes y miércoles a partir de las 9:30 p.m.
En la sucursal del Hudson Guild del 441 oeste de la calle 26 (entre octava y novena avenidas) puede registrarse de lunes a viernes, de 9:15 a.m. a 12 p.m. y de 1 p.m. a 3 p.m.
Para los cursos en el Manhattan Learning Center, del 269 oeste de la calle 35 (entre séptima y octava avenidas) la registración se realiza lunes y miércoles a las 5:30 p.m.
En la Norman Thomas High School, 111 Este de la calle 33 (entre Park avenue south y Lexington) se ofrecen también clases de español los sábados. Inscripciones ese día a las 9:00 a.m.
Las registraciones para los cursos en West Side High School (140 este de la calle 102) son los lunes y miércoles a las 6 p.m.
También pueden registrarse para el High School of Fashion Industries, 225 oeste de la calle 24 (entre séptima y octava avenidas), los lunes y miércoles a las 6 p.m.
Para mayor información llame al (212) 868-1650.
Posted by Ahorre at 04:16 AM
October 17, 2005
TPS, CAFTA Y GED
Profesor Martin N. Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
Hay cosas importantes que cada salvadoreño debe compartir con sus compatriotas en cada comunidad. Entre recibir una llamada telefónica en la casa o en su teléfono celular por su Presidente Antonio Saca y el sistema que existe ahora mismo hay un sistema mejor para comunicar con los salvadoreños en la diáspora y los salvadoreños en su amado país. Gracias a los salvadoreños y especialmente el Cónsul General Luís Montes Brito y la Vice Ministro Margarita Escobar, muchos que han leídos mis artículos importantes sobre la educación de su comunidad, mi campaña de educación está creciendo y creciendo.
Aquí tiene los puntos claves de mi discurso en el Harvard Faculty Club en Boston. Primero todo Latinoamérica no ha aprovechado del sistema rápido del GED que tenemos en los Estados Unidos y el Canadá. Con millones de graduados incluyendo el Cirujano General de Los Estados Unidos, el Presidente de la National Hispanic Bar Association, nuestro amado amigo Nelson Castillo de El Salvador y la Gobernadora Deborah Miner de Delaware, el GED ha ayudado mucho a este país. Pero la comunidad hispana sufre por tres cosas. El abandono de las escuelas en sus países (60 por ciento de la población de adultos), alrededor de las mismas cifras aquí o 3.5 hispanos por un americano blanco y la baja cifra de tomar el GED (aproximadamente 55 por ciento para americanos no hispano y 45 por ciento para hispano).
Solamente cuando podemos triplicar al número de graduados por el GED tenemos la posibilidad de efectuar positivamente y en una manera revolucionaria la familia hispana, la comunidad hispana, las iglesias hispanas y el gran número de profesiones porque 65 por ciento toman al GED para obtener un nivel más alto de educación.
Siempre trato de dar a mis lectores y la comunidad el mejor de “El Quijote del GED.” El GED es un examen nacional pero los estados violan los derechos de hispanos debajo del nombre de states rights o derechos estatales que discriminó en el pasado contra los africanos americanos. En siete estados de los Estados Unidos en 2002, solamente una persona tomó el examen en español en estos siete estados. En todo Washington D.C., Virginia y Maryland solamente 283 tomaron el examen en español. En Nevada solamente 134, en Delaware 12, en Louisiana donde hay 200,000 hispanos solamente 18. Los hispanos tienen una alerta roja por el GED porque cada familia debe preguntarse antes de mudarse si el estado donde espera mudarse ofrece el examen en español. Massachussets trató eliminar el examen en 2004 pero falló. En Puerto Rico 23,515 tomaron el GED y en todos los Estados Unidos solamente 29,418. Los hispanos en conclusión están perdiendo su competitividad cada año y no están progresando.
Anuncié a la Tercera Convención Mundial de Salvadoreños que necesitamos movilizar toda la comunidad y no solamente las personas en las clases. También dije al panel de las mujeres que apoyo sus aspiraciones y creo que la dignidad de la mujer es más importante que el voto en el exterior y el GED. Para centenares de miles de los adultos mi plan es desconocido y el gobierno de El Salvador puede difundir mi plan de acción. La Vice Ministro Margarita Escobar asistió la inauguración de mi programa en la Biblioteca Pública de Central Islip donde la comunidad hispana nunca ha tenido un programa de GED en español y ahora mismo los hispanos pueden tomar el importantísimo examen de Práctica Oficial en español, inglés y francés (si por acaso un hispano ha abandonado la escuela en Québec, Canadá). Es la única biblioteca que tiene mi programa en los Estados Unidos y Walmart donó un mil dólares en dos semanas a la biblioteca.
Yo he avisado el estado de Florida y miles más de personas se gradúan cada año a causa de mis consejos. Una noche en una escuela pública en la ciudad de New York hablé a un grupo de los padres y dieciséis de ellos fueron a tomar el examen real sin estudiar y pasaron el GED. Estuve en Alma Visión o televisión cristiana en español, en la televisión pública en Worcester, Massachussets, en Radio Sonora en El Salvador, en la radio en Paris, France y otros programas. Se ha publicado mucha información La Prensa Gráfica y ElSalvador.com de mis programas y tengo el apoyo de la Asociación Nacional de Periódicos Hispanos y el Concilio de Labor de la Ciudad de New York. Yo he hecho manifestaciones por el GED afuera del Consulado de El Salvador en Long Island, donde los niños de padres de Centroamérica urgieron sus padres a completar su educación por el GED. También hice manifestaciones afuera de una Iglesia de Dios en Queens, en el desfile y festival dominicano en Haverstraw, New York, en un restaurante en Jackson Heights, New York con el Asambleísta José Peralta y líderes comunitarias urgiendo una mujer colombiana a tomar el GED, en un parque en Queens con Randy Fisher, director del Hip Hop Youth Summit y lideres de la comunidad y finalmente en las calles de Washington Heights, New York City dando el examen de práctica a un joven dominicano con algunos amigos del GED presente de varios condados de la ciudad y el músico, José Rodríguez, tocando seís canciones de Juan Luís Guerra en el arpa, incluyendo Buscando un GED para un Sueño y Ojala Que Llueva Café en El Campo y el GED en Washingon Heights (líricas por el Quijote). También he visitado las casas de hispanos y me han visitado mi casa y han tomado el examen de práctica gratis en mi casa. Estuve en El Salvador en el Foro Presidencial y en algunas convenciones y conferencias, incluyendo La Conferencia de LCLAA, recientemente, en San Juan, Puerto Rico, invitado por el Presidente Milton Rosado.
Vamos a movilizar su comunidad junto por un comité de educación!
Foto de El Quijote del GED y Santiago Reyes, Presidente de la Cámara de Comercio de Long Island y la Asociación de Restaurantes de Long Island en el Harvard Faculty Club durante la 3er Convención Mundial de Salvadoreños.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
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631-348-1341
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Posted by Ahorre at 09:53 AM
October 13, 2005
Luis Montes Brito Consulado de El Salvador Nueva York
Por Martin N. Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
Una revolución comenzó en Brentwood y Central Islip que ahora mismo está cambiando al mundo hispano.
En el Consulado de El Salvador en Brentwood, New York, conocido como “Ingeniero”, Luís Montes Brito hace su labor en el servicio de su país y su comunidad. Luís Montes Brito es conocido también como cónsul general de todos hispanos en Long Island. La puerta de su consulado ha siempre estado abierta a toda la comunidad. La entrega de servicios incluye pasaportes y otros documentos y servicios oficiales, sino también servicios de salud, educación, cultura, compra de casas, ahorros para el futuro, protección de obreros y recauda de fondos para los damnificados en el Salvador.
En el principio de nuestra relación, él decidió a trabajar conmigo en vez de buscar ayuda por parte de los programas de GED estatal o local. Una afiche oficial del consulado mencionó orientación de GED y el Consulado de El Salvador obtuvo toda la orientación de GED por parte de un americano o gringo, un judío, llamado por primera vez “El Quijote del GED” por Emilio Ruiz de la Tribuna Hispana en Long Island. Nos sentamos al principio y decidimos causar una revolución en la comunidad hispana. Luís siempre me pregunta enfrente de salvadoreños de donde tú eres Martin y la respuesta es de Chalatanango (una provincia de El Salvador). Mira a la foto del Cónsul promoviendo el GED recientemente en el Consulado de El Salvador. El mensaje está representado por dos canciones famosas de Juan Luís Guerra Ojala Que Llueva Café en El Campo y el GED en Washington Heights (la capital dominicana de New York) y Buscando Un GED Para Un Sueño. Nunca se cansa de hablar a su pueblo sobre la importancia de este título de educación porque sabe que alrededor de uno de dos adultos no ha completado el colegio. Normalmente menciona el nombre de nuestro graduado Fidel Cabrera, un hombre que terminó su educación formal a la edad de 10 años en la Unión y lo pasó el GED fácilmente. También estamos orgullosos de un graduado que tomó y pasó el GED después de solamente cuatro horas de clases en el Consulado de El Salvador.
No creemos solamente en palabras lindas. El labor de Brito es un labor de amor en nombre de la comunidad. Después de tener graduados y presentar mi programa en tres idiomas a la biblioteca pública de Central Islip, él me presentó a la Vise Ministro de su país. Margarita Escobar es una de las mujeres más poderosas del mundo, en mi opinión, y merece reconocimiento por avisar al Presidente Antonio Saca a anunciar su intención de traer el GED a el Salvador. Recibí el reconocimiento del Presidente Leonel Fernández de la República Dominicana solamente unas semanas después, por parte de mi amigo, el publicador Ramón Soto de El Sol de New York.
Cada comunidad hispana en los Estados Unidos puede causar la revolución con nosotros a través de los Estados Unidos. La revolución ha afectado a miles de personas en Long Island ya. Mi trabajo consiste en informar la comunidad hispana que el GED es un examen fácil y hay métodos más importante a su futuro que la clase de GED. El estudio en la casa es muy importante y puede doblar o triplicar al número de diplomas cada año. Cuando una familia tiene ya un graduado del GED y los otros dicen que no tengo tiempo para las clases de GED, una parte grande de esa familia no avanza. Ellos deben comenzar sus estudios con El Quijote del GED. Estoy seguro que los padres no dicen a si
mismos gracias a Dios que tengo un graduado del GED en mi familia y no necesito más graduados y mi familia es bastante fuerte con solo un graduado. Y en las iglesias todos los alumnos de los institutos bíblicos deben pasar el GED.
Mi programa para comunidades consiste en la venta de los libros de GED en español e inglés, la venta de libros del estudio de inglés, dando aplicaciones a los maestros de otros países para ser certificado en el estado donde viven, dando información sobres las compañías que traducen los créditos de las universidades de Latinoamérica, proveyendo información a miles que sus bachilleratos valen por el empleo o la entrada a la universidad y solamente necesitan una traducción por un notario público hispano o un cónsul general de su país y información para los estudiantes bilingües que preparan para sus exámenes en los colegios o high schools y el mejoramiento de los alumnos de las escuelas intermedias por las lecciones en el libro de GED que cuesta muy poco y cuando un abogado viene de otro país, proveo al abogado con el número de teléfono del Licenciado Nelson Castillo, el Presidente electo de la National Hispanic Bar Association o la Asociación Nacional de Abogados. Al lado de la Biblia pertenece el libro de GED en la casa. Hay mucha información en los libros de GED que mejora también la educación de pequeños negociantes y obreros que necesitan mejor comunicación en el trabajo. Si algunos de mis lectores están interesados en trabajar con la comunidad en la misma manera, contácteme pronto. También podemos mandar, todos nosotros, los recursos que sus familias necesitan en sus países de origen.
Simplemente, después de los desastres causados por las guerras civiles, los dictadores, los desastres naturales en Jimaní, RD, el Salvador y Guatemala, por ejemplo, todos deben entrar en un convenio para que las olas futuras de inmigrantes no deban repetir los errores del pasado. Cada hispano debe tomar el GED en su primer año en este país y comenzar sus estudios de inglés en la casa. Una persona bilingüe con un título en su resume gana mucho más dinero cada año.
La comunidad hispana debe mucho a las decisiones del cónsul de todos hispanos. Yo también debo mucho a mi gran amigo Luís Montes Brito del Consulado de El Salvador en Long Island.
Martin N. Danenberg
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Posted by Ahorre at 06:34 AM
October 12, 2005
DOMINICANO PREPARANDO PARA EL GED EN LA CALLE
Profesor Martin N. Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
Un joven dominicano de 19 años de edad necesita su GED y después de una pequeña charla con él, en que yo presenté la foto del Presidente Leonel Fernández con el mismo examen de práctica en sus manos urgiendo dominicanos a tomar el GED, decidió a tomar el examen en la calle Washington Heights. Fue apoyado por en grupo de amigos del GED, incluyendo el músico Mas acerca del programa GED
Posted by Ahorre at 09:33 AM
Academia del Taekwondo y El GED
Por Profesor Martín N. Danenberg “El Quijote del GED” - Porfirio Álvarez, el Cinturón Negro 5to. Dan y arbitro internacional de la Federación Mundial (WTF), me dijo “Tengo cinco alumnos que necesitan el GED.” Señor Álvarez ha treinta años de experiencia en el Taekwondo y es una figura internacional, pero él reconoce que todos sus alumnos deben graduarse de la high school o un programa de GED.
El puede mandar sus alumnos a la Biblioteca de Central Islip, donde yo inauguré mi programa el 1 de Julio con reconocimiento internacional de El Salvador o al Consulado de El Salvador donde enseño el GED o puede obtener mi programa para sus alumnos. Señor Álvarez es un profesor por profesión, un profesor del español, inglés como segundo idioma y educación física.
Entre las personas que yo he conocido, él remonta como el águila. Está interesado en la educación de sus estudiantes, entre ellos son mi graduado Natalie De Los Santos de la República Dominicana y ahora una ciudadana de este país a la edad de veintidós años y mi aliado en mi campaña, Aníbal Castellón, un líder de la comunidad guatemalteca en Long Island. Tengo una visión, como Porfirio Álvarez, de una academia o una universidad de un millón de hispanos que no tienen un diploma de la high school o la equivalencia. La World Taekwondo Academia en Central Islip puede comenzar una red de academias alrededor los Estados Unidos, promoviendo el GED para todos que necesiten el diploma. Cada academia puede ser un satélite de mi programa fácilmente. Esperamos ayudar a los cinco estudiantes esta semana. Señor Álvarez me preguntó, “Porque está haciendo esta campaña de educación?” Muchos hispanos me han preguntado lo mismo y la respuesta es fácil. Tengo mucho poder y el uso de esta clase del poder, como el propio uso de poder en el taekwondo, es importante en todas partes de los EE.UU. Y después de ayudar a los cinco estudiantes referidos, podemos ayudar más en la clase siguiente.
Mi próximo paso es establecer con La Internacional Parliament Foundation (IPF) del Reverendo Lemuel Rodríguez, mi amado hermano, centros del GED en todos los condados de la Ciudad de New York y después en los condados de Suffolk y Nassau. Una revolución educativa está en manos de hispanos y espero hacer mucho con cada comunidad en los EE. UU.
Sinceramente es un honor colaborar con un miembro del Hall of Fame de las artes marciales de los EE.UU. Y espero hacer lo mismo con los jugadores profesionales de la liga de béisbol temprano.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
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Posted by Ahorre at 06:55 AM
October 11, 2005
LATINOS GANAN EN LA CORTE DE LONG ISLAND
Por Profesor Martin N. Danenberg “ El Quijote del GED” - Los bomberos de Brentwood, casi al último momento, cambiaron su decisión y otorgaron un permiso a los latinos para su desfile y festival en el 18 de Septiembre. En mi opinión, los bomberos, al principio, tomaron una decisión arbitraria y caprichosa y posiblemente discriminatoria.
Esta clase de decisión cuesta los pagadores de impuestos mucho cuando, por ejemplo, los organizadores de un festival recobran sus costos cuando una aldea prohíbe al permiso del festival. El Juez de La Corte Suprema de New York Robert Webster Oliver anunció la decisión a La Alianza Salvadoreña, al Cónsul General de El Salvador y a otros miembros de la comunidad. Pero el juez mostró a todos presentes mucho más que una decisión basada en la ley.
El invocó la memoria de la administración de Franklin D. Roosevelt y su programa de “Buen Vecino” y mencionó que siempre creía que la expansión del dicho programa era importante a todos nosotros y también en su juventud ha pasado en la Carretera Panamericana. Gracias al trabajo de todos y un abogado competente que trabajó con tremenda rapidez, según las palabras del juez, la comunidad debe y merece engozar su desfile. Esta victoria no fue solamente una victoria judicial sino también una victoria humana.
Invité al Juez Oliver al desfile para introducir el juez a los dos presidentes de Latinoamérica, Antonio Elías Saca y Ricardo Maduro, los grandes mariscales del desfile, y marchar con la comunidad. Hay una posibilidad también que el presidente de Guatemala va a asistir al evento. Los presidentes de estos países deben conocer a un juez americano con su corazón abierto a los hispanos.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
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Posted by Ahorre at 06:50 AM
October 10, 2005
Carta Presidente Elias Antonio Saca-Gonzalez
7 Enero 2005
Presidente Elías Antonio Saca-González
Casa Presidencial
Alameda Manuel Enrique Araujo
Km 6
San Salvador, El Salvador
Central America
Estimado Presidente Elías Antonio Saca-González,
Quiero expresar a mi presidente y mi amigo mis sentimientos, los sentimientos de un hombre conocido a veces como el chalateco y el Quijote del GED. Estoy orgulloso de el Salvador por su presidente y su gabinete, por tantos amigos en el Salvador y muchísimos acá en los Estados Unidos. Entre ellos quiero mencionar dos personas que han contribuido mucho a mi campaña, hablando mucho de mi esfuerzo en la comunidad salvadoreña. Cónsul General Luis Montes-Brito es mi socio en la revolución y Licenciado Nelson Castillo es Presidente de La Asociación Nacional de Abogados Hispanos y un graduado del programa de GED. Cónsul Brito ha hablado a más de diez mil salvadoreños sobre mi campaña y el Licenciado Castillo ha hablado a miles y siempre cuenta su experiencia personal a mis estudiantes. Su experiencia de la vida es un ejemplo de un joven despierto, trabajando en una gasolinera, que cambió su vida por el GED
He tenido la oportunidad de enseñar salvadoreños de diversas experiencias. Uno que abandonó la high school pasó el GED después de cuatro horas en mi clase. El segundo tomaba drogas en su juventud y ahora toca música en la orquestra de Dr. Ayala. El tercero abandonó el Salvador a causa de la guerra y completó solamente el segundo grado de la primaria. El tiene niños y el hijo solía caer a dormir durante mis clases. El cuarto cortaba la caña de azúcar. Todos son graduados, preparándose para un futuro mejor. Un otro estudiante, por ejemplo, a la edad de diez años solía sembrar los frijoles, despertando a las cinco de la mañana para hacer su trabajo en el campo.
Pasé nueve días donde la vida huela a campo y de su fuente yo bebí. Te quiero ahora mucho más y siento el amor que tu me das. Y en la distancia cuando busco identidad, tu azul y blanco me lo da (crédito a Jorge Anaya).
Yo sé ahora mismo que no soy un hombre norteamericano clamando en el desierto a solo. Sus anuncios me han apoyado muchísimo y ahora mismo podemos combatir los molinos, los enemigos de la educación para todos y la indiferencia junto. Urjo que todos salvadoreños se unan con nosotros. Que formemos un puente fuerte y indestructible entre cada salvadoreño en el exterior y en su amado El Salvador. Vamos a despertar el padre de la familia con poca educación que juega el fútbol en los fines de la semana, la madre cuidando sus niños, limpiando y cocinando en la casa y trabajando en housekeeping en un hotel o una fábrica y también el pandillero porque el GED vale mucho al individuo, a la familia, a la iglesia, a la comunidad y a su país que huela a campo. Y ojala que llueva café y educación en el campo y en las calles de sus pueblos y ciudades.
Espero que tenga tiempo para leer mi artículo en El Salvador News.
Con gratitud inestimable a mi presidente,
Martin N. Danenberg
Profesor del Consulado de El Salvador en Brentwood, Profesor de los salvadoreños y chelito.
Posted by Ahorre at 09:58 PM
GED No Child Left Behind: Are They Working Out
In 2002, there was a huge drop in the numbers of people who earned a GED across the United States. Joan Auchter, the executive director of the American Council on Education, has said that there is always a drop during the year that a new test (harder test) replaces the old one, but in this remark she is hiding the fact that the drop also was about a hundred and forty thousand fewer diplomas than in 2000, the year before the rush.
Administrators who do not know their field that well and of course administrators who want to continue to look great in the public eye have ways of manipulating the statistics to deceive America. I have not seen the statistics for 2003 and I assume they are bad too. Two years before that there was a drop on the Spanish GED in New York City from over 700 passing papers to slightly more than 100 and no investigation was even made. The Hispanic community is suffering around our nation in states that have large Hispanic populations, including Ohio, Florida, and Connecticut.
The people in Washington at the ACE have allowed states’ rights to exist when states’ rights on the GED should have been abandoned with the Civil Rights legislation. Puerto Rico has failed its people who have not passed the ESL test after passing the Spanish GED. Florida and New Jersey failed thousands of people who would have passed the same test in forty-eight other states, North Carolina requires all people to go to a GED program instead of allowing qualified people to take the test without going to class at all as other states permit, Illinois has hurt thousands of people each year who do not pass the Illinois State Constitution exam, many states do not even test in Spanish and French, which are official languages of the GED. Slavery and Jim Crow are over, but administrators who have not learned our history well or who know our history all too well and are using states’ rights to keep minorities and the poor down continue to harm our people and make them less competitive. Where is President Bush on this important issue? Maybe he should spend part of his month at the ranch thinking, thinking about what he is really doing to this nation. The War on Iraq is not going well and the war on education is going badly. Families and communities are getting worse as more students drop out from high school across our nation. I am sure there are more graduates in many places where there are also more dropouts than ever before. New York City, again, is an example of this.
As far as the raising of standards in testing in our nation at the elementary and junior high school levels, we can learn something quickly that GED teachers know so well since we teach toward the test. Many children who fail by one or two or three questions in math and reading could pass the next day. They would only need the opportunity to retake a different test. Of course these very same students, like all students will forget many things that they know during the summer months and they will be even farther behind where they were when they tested at the end of the previous school year. This shows the great waste that exists in the system. Mayor Mike Bloomberg and school Chancellor Joel Klein are proud of their accomplishments, but they really do not understand what they are doing. Parents should have the right to have their children retested immediately. In many states on the GED, students can retest the next day, but in New York State the policy has been that retesting has been permitted after two months or more. These administrative decisions only help make the residents in our state less competitive than in other states where people can retest immediately. I suggest that parents fight for immediate retesting and then take their children who pass on summer vacation, instead of making them spend the summer in remedial classes with teachers that probably do not know the children that well to be able to help them.
No Child Left Behind is not a success, but everyone hired by the Bush Administration will disagree. Let us make a study of the schools of New York City to prove that it is a success. In order to prove that anything is a success we need to have a control group to see benefits and of course the two things being tested must be the same before any changes are produced. Schools have traditionally done well because of the hard work of parents who pay tremendous sums of money for tutoring. I have seen it in my family in the affluent area of New City, New York. The parents there and around our nation have believed in No Child Left Behind before it actually existed. Did the money from No Child Left Behind help the marks in New York City in 2005? Let Mayor Bloomberg give us that answer now. If it did not, then you will know what I am pointing out and that is there is no proof that No Child Left Behind is working and that the success of the Bush presidency is an illusion.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
GEDHOTLINE@AOL.COM
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/GEDHOTLINE
631-348-1341
Posted by Ahorre at 12:29 PM
LA MARCHA DE UN MILLON DE FAMILIAS HISPANAS POR EL GED
Por Martin N. Danenberg “El Quijote del GED” - Mi alumno Jonathan Flores (de El Salvador) y su esposa Ana Simo(de la República Dominicana) tenían su primera hija, Jazmín, en Octubre 12 y menos de un mes después Jonathan tomó el examen del GED (equivalencia del high school), recibiendo su diploma en Diciembre. Normalmente las personas anuncian que el programa de GED dura seis meses, pero para Jonathan duró entre tres y cuatro horas en mi clase.
El no aprobó todas las materias de práctica en mi clase, pero le di a él la solicitud después de evaluar su trabajo en mi clase. Jonathan no regresó a mi clase pero pasó el examen en español y el examen de ESL. Siempre pienso de las decenas de miles de padres sin un GED que van a las reuniones en las escuelas públicas de Nueva York para sus hijos y he recomendado que cada maestro tenga mi orientación para motivar estos padres a obtener un GED. He recomendado una iniciativa del GED entre el estado y las iglesias que el Gobernador Pataki recibió después del banquete del Reverendo Rubén Diaz. He escrito artículos en periódicos hispanos sobre “La Marcha del Millón de Hispanos” a tomar el examen de GED y que los hispanos deben marchar a sus iglesias con la Biblia en la mano y el GED en la casa. Jonathan ahora marcha a la Iglesia Monte Zion de Asamblea de Dios en Long Island con su diploma en la casa.
Quiero decirles más acerca de mi relación con Jonathan. El llenó una aplicación para la compañía UPS, porque le dije que UPS paga a sus empleados hasta $23,000 para la cuota tuición) para la universidad. Jonathan me dijo que en Fleet Bank o el Banco Fleet, una mujer le dio la aplicación y recomendó a el que busque trabajo con Fleet porque el Banco necesita empleados bilingües. Jonathan me dijo que nunca creía que va a tener una oportunidad trabajando en un banco, pero ahora mismo tiene sus ojos abiertos a nuevos horizontes. No estoy terminado. Su esposa casi se graduó de un high school en el Bronx, pero falló las matemáticas. Ahora mismo, voy a ayudar ella y predigo que en poco tiempo esta familia va a tener dos graduados con futuros mejores. En mi opinión esta familia es un modelo para centenares de miles de familias y cada familia debe reconocer rápidamente que este plan trae tremendos beneficios a la familia. Quiero hacer lo mismo para todos mis lectores y su comunidad.
Espero hacer lo mismo para todos en los Estados Unidos. He tenido un programa a distancia para tres años y ahora tengo un proyecto revolucionario para las iglesias en todas partes de los Estados Unidos (recuerda el ejemplo de Jonathan Flores). Soy asesor para el GED en el Consulado de El Salvador en Brentwood, NY, el Consulado de la República Dominicana en la Ciudad de Nueva York y el Consulado de México y el Consulado de Honduras en Washington, D.C. Soy asesor a Aspira de Puerto Rico en NY y la oficina del Gobernador Jeb Bush en Florida. Mi red de contactos incluye la Iglesia de Dios, Asamblea de Iglesias Cristianas y Asamblea de Dios. Conozco tres miembros de la Junta de Radio Visión Cristiana Internacional y temprano espero hacer una entrevista con RVC. Tengo muchas cosas para compartir con hispanos alrededor de los EE.UU., pero la cosa más importante es que los oyentes se actuarán por notar mi número de teléfono y mi dirección electrónico para sus pastores. Así todo el mundo puede recibir mi ayuda. Mi programa beneficia las personas que han abandonado el high school y los alumnos del octavo grado que necesitan tomar exámenes de promoción.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
631-348-1341
GEDHOTLINE @AOL.COM
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/GEDHOTLINE
Posted by Ahorre at 06:52 AM
September 12, 2005
Puerto Rico Diplomas y Certificaciones
DEPARTAMENTO DE EDUCACION - SECRETARIA AUXILIAR DE SERVICIOS EDUCATIVOS A LA COMUNIDAD
UNIDAD DE EXAMENES, DIPLOMAS Y CERTIFICACIONES SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
RESULTADOS DEL EXAMEN DE APROVECHAMIENTO DE NIVEL DE ESCUELA SUPERIOR LEY 188
NOMBRE
DIRECCION
FECHA DE EXAMEN XX 2005 CODIGO FORMA: SP
FORMA RENOVADO MATERIAS PUNTUACION SSC
IA REDACCION ENSAYO 2.0 410 -
IA * LENGUAJE LECTURA 380 *
IA CIENCIAS NATURALES 410
IA * ESTUDIOS SOCIALES 400
IA * MATEMATICAS 370
IA INGLES 410
PUNTUACION TOTAL 2380
NOTA : REQUISITOS PARA OBTENCION DEL DIPLOMA DE EQUIVALENCIA A ESCUELA SUPERIOR
EFECTIVO A ENERO 2004, UN PUNTAJE TOTAL DE 2700 PUNTOS EN TODAS LAS 6 MATERIAS 450 DE PROMEDIO CON NINGUNA MATERIA CON MENOS DE 410 PUNTOS.
* BASADO EN ESTOS RESULTADOS USTED NO CUALIFICA PARA EL DIPLOMA DE EQUIVALENCIA A ESCUELA SUPERIOR
USTED DEBERA REPETIR LAS PARTES DEL EXAMEN EN QUE OBTUVO UNA PUNTUACION CON MENOS DE 410.
**CANDIDATOS QUE OBTUVIERON 1.5 O MENOS EN LA PUNTUACION DE ENSAYO AUTOMATICAMENTE NO APRUEBAN LA PARTE DE REDACCION
MYRNA GONZALEZ VASQUEZ LFD
DIRECTOR
CUALQUIER ALTERACION O BORRADURA INVALIDA ESTE DOCUMENTO
In this document we can find an error made by the administration of GED in Puerto Rico
En este documento podemos encontrar un error hecho por la administración de GED en Puerto Rico.
Everyone has to pass the GED with a minimum store of 410 on each of the 5 (not 6 parts) and a total store of at least 2,250.
Todo el mundo tiene que pasar el GED con un puntaje mínimo de 410 en cada uno de los 5 partes (no de los 6 partes) y un total de 2,250.
In New York there cannot be confusion about the GED counseling and strategy for someone who fails because New York only shows if the person passed or failed the ESL test and the score are not added to the other five scores.
En Nueva York no hay confusión sobre los consejos y estrategia del GED para un alguien que falla porque Nueva York solamente muestra si la persona ha pasado o fallado el inglés y los puntajes no son agregados a los otros cinco puntajes.
In New York a GED is awarded as soon as someone passes the Spanish test, but in Puerto Rico the standards are different and higher for brothers, sisters, and friends who live in Puerto Rico, where they have to pass the English test too in order to get a diploma.
En Nueva York un GED está otorgado cuando la persona pasa el examen en español, pero en Puerto Rico donde el estándar es diferente y más alto para hermanos, hermanas y amigos quienes viven en Puerto Rico, donde ellos tienen que pasar el inglés también para recibir un diploma.
The person who took this test more than once did not have professional help that would permit him or her to improve.
La persona que tomó el examen más de una vez no ha tenido apoyo profesional que le permitía su mejoramiento.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
GEDHOTLINE@AOL.COM
631-348-1341
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/GEDHOTLINE
Posted by Ahorre at 09:15 PM
August 12, 2005
New York Hispanic Education Requires Hispanic Votes
“THE BEST IS YET TO COME” SAYS MIKE BLOOMBERG AND THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IT.
By Martin N. Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
Mayor Mike Bloomberg feels his term in office has been a major success. Test scores are up and this is a great thing to feed the Hispanic population during the mayoral campaign.
Fernando Ferrer points out that the drop out rate is higher. Even though there may be more Hispanics earning a diploma, there are more Hispanics dropping out. If the total number of high school diplomas and GED’s is down in the Hispanic community, then Mayor Bloomberg and the Department of Education have hurt the community. Will it continue to be bad or get worse? Statistics show that Mexican immigrants nationally have a drop out rate of about 65 per cent and as more Mexicans move into communities in New York City, things may continue to be bad. In Los Angeles the dropout rate has been reduced, I have learned, from 69 to 61 percent. The Hispanic community has really very little to celebrate about since there are 3.5 dropouts for every 1 non-Hispanic.
What can we learn from all of this? Hispanics are divided and they do not have the power to change this. Herman Badillo, Fernando Mateo, Fernando Ferrer, and Adriano Espaillat should be working together, but they are committed to different parties. While they argue over things like class size and other issues, Hispanic communities like Washington Heights are filled with adults who have no diploma and who will not really be “competitive” in their lifetimes. Sure they will work, taking low paying jobs. Mayor Bloomberg’s office in Washington Heights comes four years too late it lacks the substance that the Dominican people really need. It lacks the substance that all Hispanics need. I know that the office will provide help and that some people in the community will get jobs and housing, but the people should have a right to know how many people will benefit and what those benefits actually will be. Are hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of people going to get these benefits? There is a lot of talk in the community about important figures who are in the limelight and who really do not help the community.
So what will that office really achieve? If I had my way, I would restructure that office to meet the needs of more people. When you wonder why things are not getting that much better in your community, you have to look at the total number of diplomas earned by people each year. If we can double that number or triple that number, you will see tens of thousands of more competitive Hispanics, more than ever before in history which will lead the way to the university and professions. In this mayoral race, let us examine the difference of that number last year to this year and make a promise and commitment to the people that we are going to put more diplomas in the hands of Hispanics.
Throw out the slogan and give the people what they need and deserve.
OJALA QUE LLUEVA CAFÉ Y EL GED EN WASHINGTON HEIGHTS. I WISH THAT COFFEE AND THE GED RAIN IN WASHINGTON HEIGHTS.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
GEDHOTLINE@AOL.COM
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/GEDHOTLINE
* OJALA QUE LLUEVA CAFÉ Y EDUCACION EN EL MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
* OJALA QUE LLUEVA CAFÉ Y LA GENERACION DE EDUCACION Y DEPORTES
Posted by Ahorre at 07:51 PM
August 01, 2005
GED en Espanol - GED in Spanish
Por Profesor Martin N. Danenberg “El Quijote del GED”
Son preguntas del Examen de Práctica anterior y las preguntas no son tan difíciles. Para obtener las respuestas puede contactar al Profesor Martin.
No necesita contestar bien las preguntas en el examen real de algebra y geometría. Hay una parte donde se puede utilizar una calculadora y la mitad de las preguntas son opción múltiples. La redacción incluye una composición y el poco tiempo centenares de miles pueden pasar esta composición fácilmente.
Las mejores noticias son se puede tomar el examen en español y se necesita un poco más de respuestas correctas para pasar el GED. Tome este importante examen donde vive pronto y obtenga su diploma. Una con nosotros en LA MARCHA DEL MILLON DE HISPANOS POR EL GED.
1. Las causas incluyen el alcohol, las bebidas gaseosas, las duchas frías comida en exceso y tensión emocional.
Cuál es el mejor modo de expresar la porción subrayada de esta oración? Si cree que la versión original es la mejor, elija la opción (1).
(1) frías comida en exceso y
(2) frías. Comida en exceso y
(3) frías y comida en exceso y
(4) Frías y Comida en exceso. Y
(5) frías, comida en exceso y
2. En 1965, Bette Midler empieza su trabajo en la línea de montaje de una fábrica de conservas de piña.
Cuál es el mejor modo de expresar la porción subrayada de esta oración? Si cree que la versión original es la mejor, elija la opción (1).
(1) empieza
(2) ha empezado
(3) empiezan
(4) estaba empezando
(5) empezó
3. En New York, 40% de la población es mayor de 50 años. Cuántas personas tienen menos de 50 años?
(1) 60
(2) 600
(3) 2,000
(4) 20,000
(5) No hay suficiente información
4. En una receta de cocina se necesita 2 huevos por cada 3 tazas de leche. Según esta receta, si se usan 12 tazas de leche, cuántos huevos se necesita?
(1) 3/14
(2) 1/3
(3) 2
(4) 8
(5) 24
5. Para quién sería más útil un mapa que muestra latitud y longitud?
(1)agricultores
(2)montañeros
(3)transportadores marítimos
(4)ingenieros de camino
(5)compañías ferroviarias
6. Cuál de las siguientes afirmaciones sobre la economía es más bien una OPINION que un hecho?
(1)En una economía tradicional la gente vive de lo que produce
(2)El desarrollo de las ciudades llevó a una economía de mercado
(3)Una economía de mercado es más justa que una economía dirigida
(4)No todos los países han tenido el mismo tipo de economía
(5)En una economía dirigida los gobernantes deciden lo que se produce
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
GEDHOTLINE@AOL.COM
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
631-348-1341
WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/GEDHOTLINE
Posted by Ahorre at 05:59 AM
July 22, 2005
El Profesor Danenberg va a Washington
Por Profesor Martin N. Danenberg
“El Quijote del GED”
En el Salvador una familia recoge el café del mismo árbol. Los niños recogen el café de las ramas más bajas y los adultos de las ramas más altas, pero la familia queda junta, Aquí los padres deben completar su educación (el GED) de una rama más alta para que sus niños puedan aspirar a una educación aún más alta. Que vayan todos hispanos a la iglesia con la Biblia en la mano y con el GED en la casa.
Viajé a Washington, D.C. para mejor organizar las comunidades salvadoreñas y dominicanas, parando en Philadephia en el Consulado de la República Dominicana y la Biblioteca de la misma ciudad. Visité las oficinas de cuatro congresistas en el edificio Rayburn en la capital ayer el 24 de Marzo y el tema en cada uno fue que los estados están haciendo muy poco sobre el escaso número de los diplomas del GED ganado por nuestros ciudadanos y residentes. También, los estados esperan un recorte de sesenta y cinco por ciento en la educación de los adultos por el gobierno federal.
Estoy en contra de “ningún niño dejado atrás” porque creo en “ninguna persona dejada atrás.” Ninguna persona dejada atrás es mucha más demócrata que ningún niño dejado atrás (y recuerda que los Republicanos no son Demócratas), pero reconozco que ningún niño dejado atrás es mucho más emocionante para los padres y sicológicamente es mejor para una campaña nacional porque muchísimas más personas pagarán los costos para los niños y no pagarán los costos para los adultos. Y creo que el GED o el diploma de la equivalencia del bachillerato en los manos de dos millones más de hispanos representará una vida mejor para hispanos, un vida mejor para sus familias en el exterior por que se gana más dinero con el diploma y naturalmente se puede mandar más dinero a la familia, un siglo de oro y una familia más fuerte. Hay demasiados problemas en las familias causado por la falta de educación y podemos eliminar la mayoría de los problemas.
Tengo el apoyo de dos presidentes de Latina América, pero todavía no tengo el apoyo del Presidente Bush. El ha gastado un trillón para en la Guerra en Irak, un billón a causa del Tsunami en Asia y aquí ni una peseta más para el GED. Este presidente debe reconocer que el cemento para la familia hispana que falta en muchas familias es el GED y la Casa Blanca necesita una iniciativa especial y debe reformar la iniciativa de la Primera Dama. Ella debe concentrarse mucho más en la educación de los adultos. Recomiendo que deje el Social Security al lado y trabaje para la educación de todos. Lyndon B. Johnson nos dio más derechos civiles. George W. Bush puede darnos “ninguna persona dejada atrás” y la amnistía. Y vamos a trabajar junto para traer el examen de GED a Latino América. Así, los países pueden construir una clase media más rápida.
Hablé con los asistentes de los congresistas siguientes: Rubén Hinojosa, Dale Kildee, Nancy Polosi y Bishop y en cada oficina la recepción fue excelente. Mandé también información a la oficina de la Congresista Loretta Sanchez. Intento de abrir diez mil RPM Centros de GED, cerca de cada Mc Donald’s en los EE. UU. Ya considero todos los congresistas mencionados amigos del GED. Yo creo que el Congreso de los Estados Unidos va a entender que nosotros tenemos nuevas respuestas a los problemas del abandono de nuestras escuelas y la acelerada adquisición del diploma de GED y rápidamente podemos compartir la información con todos los gobernadores. Contácteme para recibir más información o puede buscar en el Internet “El Quijote del GED” y www.geocities.com/gedhotline.
MARTIN N. DANENBERG
7 BLAZER DRIVE
ISLANDIA, NY 11749
GEDHOTLINE@AOL.COM
631-348-1341
Posted by Ahorre at 07:24 AM
July 21, 2005
La Marcha del Millon de Hispanos por el Diploma GED Llega a California
La Marcha del Millón de Hispanos que anuncié, por primera vez en La Noticia Hispanoamericano en Long Island hace un año y medio está llegando a California. Ahora mismo tengo el apoyo del Presidente Antonio Saca de El Salvador y del Presidente Leonel Fernández de la Republica Dominicana. Mas La Marcha del Millon de Hispanos por el Diploma GED Llega a California
Posted by Ahorre at 07:14 AM
July 19, 2005
Programa de GED en Nueva York
Mi campaña de educación en Haverstraw comenzó hace dos años cuando hablé en La Convención Mundial de Iglesias de Asambleas Cristianas en La Iglesia Pentacostal Nueva Jerusalén y hablé también con Ramón Soto del periódico El Sol de New York. Programa de GED en Haverstraw Nueva York
Posted by Ahorre at 09:41 PM