At the end of his Niu Valley Middle School eighth grade year, my son was given the option of applying for AVID at Kaiser High School. AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination and is a college and career preparedness route students can take. AVID’s early roots date back to […]
College
I could very possibly be the worst advocate of an educational foreign language requirement. That would apply to any level of education, be it junior high, high school or college. For me, the issue is context and need. As the internet has proven to us, you can learn anything, anywhere, […]
I did a little data mining to find the educational attainment level in the State of Hawaii, in the City and County of Honolulu and in Hawaii Kai. As it turns out, 30.1 percent of Hawaii residents 25 years and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher. Amazingly however, 9.6 […]
Sometimes I think transparency in Hawaii is literal: you can’t see it. These data come from the Hawaii Department of Education website out of a link that I only seem to be able to access by using special filters in the Google search engine to unearth. It does not seem […]
