Today I am going over to the Fox studios to tape an episode of Perspective with Monique Caradine, for My 50 Chicago. The last time I was on the show we discussed Black History Month. Today we are going to talk education. Yes, education. That seems to be on a lot of peoples minds this week. Over on NBC they have named this week Education Nation. Just yesterday on Sunday I watched Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Meet the Press with David Gregory, and yesterday morning on The Today Show I watched President Obama admit that his daughters wouldn’t be able to receive the same quality level of education in a DC public school as they are in their private school. Apparently he felt the same way when he lived her in Chicago, because the girls attended private school here too. I don’t blame him though. [Read more...]
For the last three years I have had the distinct honor to grace your televisions in the mornings as you get ready for school, for work, or a day of play at home. It?s been an absolute treat for me to do what I have been doing, what I have a complete passion for, in front of the viewing public. 
Dominoes are a great children?s game. Although when I was a kid I never new how to play it by the rules, but I used to love to line them up and watch the snaking patterns topple over one by one. That was fun! However, watching the domino effect of today?s failing economy is not. This recession isn?t childs? play, but children are certainly at the heart of it. Children are innocent of any blame for our current predicament, and yet they will shoulder most of the burden from the vestiges of this recession for years to come. 
