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When Roman Jackobsen identified one of the functions of language as the phatic function, it’s doubtful that he ever imagined that social media would create an environment where people communicate solely for the purpose of communicating.  Bereft of content, or riddled with cliches that render so-called information “redundancy” as Bateson would say, had turned Americans […]

The world wide web is getting more world wide. And if you live in the U.S., you should know about it. Domain names are now available to web subscribers in alphabets other than the standard “latin” alphabet (the one that goes from a to z). Domains are now available in arab script, and will be […]

If you “earn” a GED, you can use the title of this post as a template for your business card.  Why? 
Academically speaking, it’s better if you’re an “at risk” teenager and graduate from high school than an “untroubled” teenager and drop out. 
What’s this all about? Well, research by Dr. J. Tyler fairly well demonstrates that […]

I had posed the question why is the GED administered to 850,000 people each year when only 2% of those who pass it finish just ONE year of college.  It should have been read in the hortatory mood, not the interrogative. Anyway, the best answer I can find is that it enables school systems to […]

From my research, the best answer I can give is “I don’t know.”  However, if you examine the work of educational researcher John Tyler, you will discover that studies indicate about 2% of GED holders complete the first year of college.  If one were to extrapolate from this percentage, the percentage who actually receive a […]

I interrupt to bring to the forefront a policy statement issued by the TRANSAFRICA FORUM in October, 2008.  It is relevant, perhaps, to the recent tragedy in Haiti.  You decide.  In the fall of 2008, the ‘breakaway’ Republic of Georgia (not the State where Atlanta is located), but same-named former part of the former Soviet Union received […]