Catalog of Interviews and Bits

o-author Kathleen O’Keefe Kanavos’ good friend Petronelle, who taught her to “laugh till it heals” to help her overcome life-threatening illness

•    Spiritual Leader Reverend Dr. Temple Hayes, who found Unity within herself as a gay woman after being judged by her family

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Academic Mediocrity of American Students Examined in Thought-Provoking Comparison of Educational Approaches

Brooklyn, NY, September 23, 2020 — East Asian students have always gained higher scores on the international comparative tests than American students. How can this be explained?

In A Mirror for Americans: What the East Asian Experience Tells Us about Teaching Students Who Excel, Dr. Cornelius Grove provides the explanation. Distilling 50 years of anthropological research into East Asian primary classrooms, Grove offers insights into East Asian teaching methods and, more significantly, into the societal values that shape East Asian teaching.

But A Mirror for Americans, about teaching, provides only half of the explanation. The other half is about East Asian families and parenting, revealed by Grove in his 2017 book, The Drive to Learn: What the East Asian Experience Tells Us about Raising Students Who Excel.

“The purpose of my books,” explains Grove, “is to convey to the general reader the research findings from East Asia, where societal values unlike ours shape child-rearing and primary school teaching. There’s an ‘Aha!’ moment: If only we could think differently about children and their classroom learning, we could raise the level of our own youngsters’ performance.”

A Mirror for Americans concerns itself with preschool through grade 5, comparing the culture of teaching in East Asia and the U.S. Among the research-generated facts revealed are these:

· In preschool and grade 1, East Asian children are taught, and they practice, individual and group behaviors that promote their own learning and their teacher’s efficient lesson delivery.

· Teachers design lessons based on the internal logic of the content they are teaching, not on factors such as a need to motivate, have fun learning or draw out pupil creativity. But they do strive to present content so that all their pupils – slower and more advanced – will benefit.

· Whether a lesson is student-centered or teacher-centered doesn’t concern East Asians. Grove’s conclusion is that East Asian lessons are knowledge-centered, a key explanation for why East Asian students outperform their American peers on those international tests.

Explains Grove, “Attitudes toward learning brought from home, plus methods of teaching encountered at school, mold East Asian youngsters into superior students. These research-generated facts ca

This will be a return visit for the dynamic Barbara Charis, who's

well known for her book, "Sharing from the Heart," loaded with

lots of great health advice/tips It took her 33 years to write this

book, a collector's item.

The theme for the interview will be--WHAT'S DISTURBING MOST

AMERICANS...who's to blame? What can be done to unite us?

Who are the bad guys splitting us? Are the billionaires to blame?

Barbara has strong, sincere opinions and will freely express them.

Below are emails she has sent me for you to review. Go through them

carefully and ask her to clarify or expand certain comments.

In particular she is very upset with GEORGE SOROS -- she'll tell you

why he is a disgrace to America. She will discuss others who are

trying to bring down the United States.

Dr. Judith Briles is the award-winning and best-selling author of 37 books, including over 45 book awards for her publishing and marketing books: Author YOU: Creating and Building Your Author and Book Platforms, Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers, How to Avoid 101 Book Publishing Blunders, Bloopers and Boo-Boos, and How to Create a $1,000,000 Speech. Her latest book is When God Says NO: Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present. (AUTHOR OF 37 BOOKS -- 46 BOOK AWARDS IN HER CAREER)

To date, her books have been translated into 17 countries with over 1,000,000 copies sold! Her books, and work, has been featured in over 1,300 plus radio and television shows including repeat appearances on CNN, CNBC, and Oprah. Print publications include Newsweek, People, Time, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and … surviving The National Enquirer! Based in Colorado, she is the founding Partner in The Book Shepherd, a book and publishing consulting and project management firm that works with authors at all stages of their book to create a book they never regret! Her website is www.TheBookShepherd.com and she’s the host of the AuthorU-Your Guide to Book Publishing podcast. Judith is with us today

Trump’s connection with India and Indian Americans has largely been underestimated by the Democratic Party. The Democrats still do not understand that there is broad support among 2.5 million Indian American voters in battleground states like Florida, Virginia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania for the President’s policies.

Mrinalini Kumari, Co-Chair of Indian Voices for Trump, knows firsthand the results of grassroots polling efforts of Indian American communities in each of these states; quite simply, the results show that as many as 50 percent of potential Indian American voters, the vast majority of whom have traditionally voted Democratic in presidential elections, will defect from the Democratic Party and vote for President Trump.

In her op-ed (see here), Mrinalini discusses the many reasons why Indian American communities are switching over to President Trump including that when President Trump took his oath, Indians were the top recipients of high-skilled H-1B temporary visas and were the second-largest group of international students in the United States.

“According to sources, 68% of Indian-born immigrants living in the US have college degrees while the rates of self-employment and entrepreneurship are higher at both high and low ends of the income scale.In a very interesting report I recently read on www.migrationpolicy.org, in 1960, just 12,000 Indian immigrants lived in the United States, representing less than 0.5% of the 9.7 million overall immigrant population. As we all know that Indian migration was at its peak between 1965 and 1990 and that was due to a series of legislative changes that created employment-based permanent visas,” writes Mrinalini in her latest op-ed.

Mrinalini also describes why the US-India relationship is stronger than even given the current global climate. Based on polling research, Indian Americans also overwhelmingly approve of the manner in which the President has responded to the coronavirus pandemic, and of his stewardship of the U.S. economy. These same potential voters also oppose the looting and vandalism that have occurred throughout dozens of American cities in recent weeks and support the president’s vow to restore a measure of law and order throughout the country.

Her op-ed goes more in depth about this significant voting block of Americans and why their opinion could swing key battleground states.

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BIO: Amra Sabic-El-Rayess grew up in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After surviving ethnic cleansing and more than 1100 days under the Serbs’ military siege, she emigrated to the United States in 1996. By December 1999, she earned a BA in Economics from Brown University. Later, she obtained two Masters degrees and a Doctorate from Columbia University. Currently, she is a professor at Columbia University working on understanding how and why societies fall apart and what role education can play in rebuilding decimated countries. She has published extensively on education-related issues, and has lectured around the world to adult and adolescent audiences. In her students’ feedback, Amra is consistently praised as one of the most inspiring professors they have encountered. Check out the following: sabicelrayess.org @amrasabicPHD