ILF POST

By Lynda Waugh – Guest Contributor Success and failure have taken on new meanings. In the past, we understood experiences of failure as leading to success. They became synonymous. The struggles toward attainment were the lessons. Life’s scenarios had beginnings, middles, and an end. There was genuine ambition for a better life, [...]

By ILF Fellow John Vasconcellos, a lawyer, lifelong California legislator, a former California State Senator, where he headed the powerful Ways and Means Committee, and a major political influence. Now retired because of term limits he heads a movement called the Politics of Trust. http://www.politicsoftrust.net/

Have you ever wondered
What kind of a world
We human beings could [...]

By guest contributor Farhad Saba, Ph. D., who was born in Iran and served in the reign of the Shah as national head of educational broadcasting. He came to the U.S. a number of years ago and is now Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University and a good friend of WBSI.
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By guest contributor Mike Males Surveys such as Public Agenda’s indicate that two-thirds to 80% of adults hold blanket, negative opinions of youth and want to impose severe restrictions on them, starting with curfews and mass banishment from public space. That’s pretty extreme–no other adults on earth, even in military dictatorships or [...]

By Guest Contributor David Keyes Written five years ago to reduce the “achievement gap,” the No Child Left Behind Act has in fact created a gap in American education. Its pressure to raise test scores has caused many schools to give poor and minority students an impoverished education that focuses primarily on basic skills.

By guest contributor Mike Males I was recently asked what it is that I like so much about helping young people? I’ve never thought of it as helping them. I’m a selfish, rotten, immature American Baby Boomer (redundant, I know), and I spent a lot of time working with younger people in [...]

By guest contributor Mike Males. Long a social activist in the civil rights movements, Mike Males is now a Senior Researcher at the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco, and a faculty member in the sociology department at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is the author of [...]