December 2010 Blog Posts (7)

"The Cartel" is now available in Video on Demand format for $2.99!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Cartel/dp/B004EIBXZK/ref=pd_cp_d_2

  12-7-10

 It could be a shot heard 'round the education world: This morning in Compton, California, more than 260 parents will pull the first ever "parent trigger" in a bid…

The documentary "Indoctrinate U" is now available in Video on Demand format for $1.99

http://www.amazon.com/Indoctrinate-U/dp/B001D3JQDA/ref=ed_oe_vdl

 and on DVD for $22…

Forbes recently featured The Cartel as the premier education documentary this year--the film that helped "set the stage for a year of reform, and a year of reform movies." Noting that the film paved the way for other films like Waiting for Superman and The Lottery, Forbes says that The Cartel "helped drive the discussion" about the urgent change needed in America's…

Less Than Half of U.S. Teens in ‘Intact Families’

Only 45 percent of American teenagers have spent their childhood with an intact family, with both their birth mother and biological father legally married to each other since before or around the time of the teen’s birth, a new report discloses.

The other 55 percent live in single-parent families, stepfamilies, or with adoptive or foster parents, according to the…

While the number of American college graduates rose significantly from 1992 to 2008, 60 percent of the increased number worked in jobs that the Bureau of Labor Statistics considers relatively low skilled, a university economist disclosed.

Those are jobs where many employees have only high school diplomas or less, and less than half of the increased number of grads have filled jobs historically regarded as requiring at least a bachelor’s degree.

That’s the finding of Richard Vedder,…

 “THE CARTEL” is THE MUST SEE MOVIE OF 2010!!!

“In case you think this documentary is about New Jersey, it’s not. It’s about American Education – a multi-billion dollar cartel” – Bob Bowden

            The amount of research done to produce this documentary is impressive. Even though New Jersey is the poster child for dysfunctional K-12 education systems, the film vividly shows the same problems we have right here in…