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I wrote a short piece in the January/February issue of Black Enterprise, the deck of which states, “Black leaders disagree on whether [charter schools are] helping or hurting our students.”
A new study found that the likelihood that job seekers will ask for a higher wage is based on three factors: gender, age, and location.
The study looked at outcomes over a 1 month period. When it was complete, Group 1 accomplished 43% of their stated goals. Group 4 accomplished 64%, Group 5, the most successful accomplished 76%.
“It’s a generational curse. Young men grow up without fathers, and then become fathers themselves and they don’t know how to parent. So the male staff here models what it is to be a man in the way we dress, the way we speak, and the way we respect the women in the building.â€
Sometimes, even the experts can make missteps when it comes to implementing technology solutions. In 2006, when Neil Nelson and Iziah Reid launched BrokenCurve (www.brokencurve.com), they had no idea that technology would change their business strategy—for the better. Initially, Nelson, 30, who holds degrees from Morris Brown College and Georgia Institute of Technology, and Reid, the company’s chief technology officer, a 30-year-old New York native, launched BrokenCurve to develop software that would deliver media content such as videos, music, and film, targeted at the African diaspora via Internet Protocol (IP) to TV set-top boxes. That was the plan, at least. The two poured roughly $150,000 of personal funds into the Atlanta-based startup—then floundered for nine months.
