Improving low income neighborhoods in Baltimore Maryland

Would reparations for descendants of African Slaves improve Black Baltimore?  

Would a universal basic income of $1,000 a month improve low income Baltimore neighborhoods?

Would free classes like literacy, interpersonal skill training and meditation improve low income neighborhoods in Baltimore? 

What would be successful in Baltimore City may work well across the United States of America.

Marc Sims

Chicago

WYPR  Baltimore: Reparations: Can America Atone for the Sin of Slavery?  

https://www.wypr.org/post/midday-live-lewis-focus-reparations

Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/08/07/335285098/rich-kid-poor-kid-for-30-years-baltimore-study-tracked-who-gets-ahead

Meet the Baltimore Yogi Helping Black Men 'Heal' Through Yoga

https://people.com/human-interest/changa-bell-black-men-yoga-heal/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_term=6935042

 

The CTU Needs To Innovate or Go Sit Down

Have you ever heard the Chicago Teachers Union talk about teaching and learning?   Is the CTU preparing all students for the jobs of the future?  Have you seen any education innovation from the CTU?  Is the CTU teaching students how to run a small business, sale a product or service, and how to succeed in life without a Bachelor’s degree?

If the Chicago Teachers Union cares about average students they would transform the way they are taught and what they should be learning.

Marc Sims

Chicago

Want a Job in the Future? Be a Student for Life

New digital technologies will destroy many jobs and also create new ones. To survive, everyone will need to keep learning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCw7RSn4qjE&fbclid=IwAR05FKp2f8MocnpkbMD8tntMjCSLk-k9giuNPvv5PQ41EvB-ngpYy_PXsbg

It's expected that half of American workers will either be freelancers or contractors within a decade.

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/22/578825135/rise-of-the-contract-workers-work-is-different-now

Success at School vs Success in Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Egxm5QuW9o

WBEZ News:  Significantly fewer black boys — 2,600 fewer — are starting as freshmen now than five years ago. And an increasing number of graduates are getting their degrees from alternative second-chance schools, which are less demanding than traditional schools, but count toward the graduation rate.

https://interactive.wbez.org/2019/graduation-rates/

NPR: Fewer than 10 percent of books feature characters of color or are written by non-white authors. And there's not a lot of variety in those books, she says. There are often historical narratives about slavery or civil rights.

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=661096501

Difficult Painful Crime Stopping

If a government agency or well meaning nonprofit forcefully imposed middle class vales on the underclass, there would opposition to that type of intervention. Stopping the crime in Chicago without hurting anyone’s feelings is impossible.    

Mayor Lori Lightfoot can dramatically lower the crime rates in Chicago but that process could be uncomfortable for the criminals and their families. The process of establishing new habits and routines can be quite painful.  Relinquishing an old identity and embracing a new identity is difficult. Some people need a lot help delaying gravitation, becoming employable, or moving away from depressing environments.  

Government agencies and well meaning nonprofits have to stop meeting people where they are, and then leaving them where they are.  They need to help criminals and potential criminals to mentally and physically detach themselves from friends, family, and situations that encourage criminal behavior.

Marc Sims

Chicago

The Power of Habit   Charles Duhigg

https://charlesduhigg.com/how-habits-work/

Raising Black Children  Dr. Carl Bell 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q-U8YxyXy4&t=4s

How Criminals & Poorly Educated People Became Successful? - Sadhguru
 https://youtu.be/jCx2CgY4xl0?t=447