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Feedback ForumNOW wants to hear from you! Send us your opinions, reactions and ideas about "College Summit"Submissions for this question are no longer being accepted. Previously submitted comments appear below. Comments may have been edited for content or space. Poster: Roberta Wright Comment: I was delighted to see your College Summit piece on NOW last night. However, I always wonder when hearing poorly educated students speak, how do they get past the poor grammar when they actually have to talk to a college educator face-to-face? They can hide their ignorance in an essay by having someone edit it, but their grammar cannot be hidden when spoken. These people have never been taught a singular from a plural verb, or they simply weren't listening when it was taught, as is often the case. Most students I knew didn't like English, therefore, they didn't pay much attention. However, in hiring, I always put a high premium on people who KNEW how to talk correctly. If they did not, they didn't get hired. How do colleges handle this matter? Roberta Wright Tucson AZ Poster: Mark Marquez Comment: I want to say that NOW is my program. I think you are working hard to tell America about the poverty, unemployment and social responsibility of justice. Keep up the great work. I buy from your sponsors and give to your program. You must continue your responsibility to the poor in America. Mark Marquez PS: Can you do a segment on poverty on the Navajo reservation. Poster: Jeffrey V Brown Comment: This is a wonderful program. However, imagine, if we could catch more of these students by starting, in a similar fashion, with the best and brightest of these students at third grade or earlier Poster: Nancy Vandenberg Comment: Dear NOW, Thank you for drawing attention to one of the hidden inequities in the U.S. education system. Low-income, first-generation college-bound students have to have astounding resilience to overcome the obstacles they face. However, that resilience makes them heroes in my eyes. College Summit is engaged in a noble fight, but I want to let young people, parents and teachers know that there are many other such programs and resources around the country. I used to work for an Upward Bound Program, which is a federally-funded TRIO program that exists at colleges and community agencies around the country. This program and others are there to support students' educational efforts and aspirations. There are also many adults out there, like myself, who are from similar backgrounds and are willing mentors. I encourage young people and their families to be tireless in their efforts to find those resources, and I encourage NOW to continue covering this inequality. America can and should do better by our talented children. Shame on us if we don't. Poster: Patsy Comment: Isn't it wonderful in the most powerful country in the world that the Danes do a better job by far in educating their children. Free college instead of no bid contracts for Halliburton. We pay a terrible price for the power we exert all around the world. 700 military bases in 120 countries. The list is endless. The United States is the most backward among the world's industrialized countries. The Reagan Revolution in full flower. Poster: Rollin S. Polk Comment: Example: my granddaughter was living in a small city, Kerrville, in Texas, was a student in the local high school, is the daughter of my daughter, who is a college graduate. So happened that a local foundation chose motivated and successful students from the high school to be recipients of sufficient funds to attend college, state or private, and my granddaughter was one of the recipients. Her mother could not afford to pay college expenses. This is not a question, David, but a resource may be more common than we usually know about. Grateful from this Wesleyan graduate of 65 years ago whose education was funded by relatives. ROLLIN POLK Poster: Kathleen Comment: Thanks for doing this show! People all too often avoid accepting the truth of how much potential is thrown away by ADULTS who fail to believe in our youth! I wonder what other people think about teachers delivering the curriculum. My experience is that some teachers have preconceptions about which students they think are college material / college bound and which are not. I would imagine this would skew the delivery and reception of the material if it is done in schools rather than away at the summit, as in the original model. What do others think? Poster: John Curry Comment: I watch your show just about every week and I usually find your focus on a weekly topic to be balanced in breadth and depth. But this week your focus on helping low-income students reach for a college education lacked your typical research. How could you not mention that the same services offered by College Summit are also provided by the federally funded TRIO programs Upward Bound and Talent Search. These programs work with low-income and first generation students in urban and rural school districts to prepare them for application to and entrance in post-secondary education. Most Upward Bound programs offer four-week, on-campus Summer Bridge programs to high school juniors and seniors who have the potential for college admissions, but lack family support, finances, and the basic knowledge of the college application system. Exactly the same type of programs offered by College Summit. If College Summit can place more low-income students into colleges in Denver, more power to them. Nevertheless, the TRIO programs, particularly Upward Bound and Talent Search have been continuously attacked and underfunded by the current Administration and by Republicans in Congress for the past eight years. I work in a TRIO program at the college level, assisting these same students with study skills, tutoring, advisement, and I teach in an Upward Bound program in the summer. I bring the same enthusiasm and optimism as the teachers and the CEO of College Summit to my job everyday, but we have not received any increase in our funding for the past four years. No increase in pay or benefits for four years. Your complete focus on one program and lack of mention for any other programs will only support the argument that federal and state programs should be outsourced to private corporations with CEOs. This is the goal of the Bush Admisitration. Again, kudos to College Summit for their successes, but please at least mention that there are already hundreds of programs and thousands of low-paid, dedicated TRIO workers who are acheiving the same results in urban and rural schools across the nation. These people deserve a pat on the back and a close-up on national television, too. Poster: Robena Comment: College Summit is great. However, it should start with sophomores. |
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