President’s Corner

I welcome your visit to our web site. We trust you will find thought provoking information that serves your needs. It is our goal to bring you cutting edge thinking in the areas of public school and college education, economics, human interest, and politics as they impact inner city America.

You may hear education, economics, human interest and politics discussed from liberal philosophical underpinning in many inner city minority communities. On the other hand, you may have difficulty feeling comfortable hearing these issues couched in a conservative mindset. We believe these socioeconomic issues can be discussed from a conservative slant without the disquieting appearance that conservative zealots are vilifying American minority groups by ballyhooing these poor peoples' inability to fully share in America’s prosperity.  We anticipate lively debate on the issues but we will be diligent in keeping the discussions mainstream.  

In our Student Scholars' section, we are offering students ranging from high school through doctorate degree programs an opportunity to see their class papers published where the world may share in their thinking or findings. Our goal is to offer excellent student research papers a public forum and to promote academic excellences as the students' norm. It is disquieting to hear a teacher share how an excellent student succumbed to peer pressure against displaying academic excellence and the student accepted mediocrity as the norm. Our hope is to praise excellent students in a global forum for their accomplishments. Hopefully, we may become a catalyst to make being smart become en vogue. Iccjournal.biz requires that students include the name of their institution and give name, email, address and telephone number of their teacher or professor for verification of their manuscript - student pictures are optional.

We are also interested in encouraging minority group people who are capable of writing books on how to teach mathematics and science in their communities to start submitting their proposals and manuscripts to mainstream book publishing houses as Rowman & Littlefield Education.

Over the years, I have found success in teaching mathematics from basic through calculus at the college level. I find the key challenge is to guide the evolution of some inner city students from being gang bangers into traditional college students. Once this socioeconomic acculturation occurs, many background deficient students' natural ability guides their pursuit of excellence.. Some of my findings on teaching college algebra are captured in a book, “Teaching College Algebra Reversing the Effects of Social Promotion.” There are other books presently under development.