By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Thanksgiving is often a time when fraudsters prey upon our most vulnerable. You wouldn’t think that university fundraising departments would risk exposing confidential income, employment,…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology There has been an outcry rebuking the re-newed focus on apprenticeships, career, and technical education (CTE). It is for naught. For instance, Anthony Carnevale, the…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology It is alleged in a Texas lawsuit that AstraZenca fraudulently marketed Seroqeul, a potent anti-psychotic drug, for the unauthorized treatment of kids. As is common…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, CHFI, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Perhaps the reform, re-organization and right-sizing of the federal education bureaucracy has its benefits. For instance, the Office of State Support under the federal U.S.…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Today, NY Times continues its piece on Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools. The dangers of super-sized donor influence in education have often been overlooked by…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology A few months back, I wrote a post about the importance of background screening. After reading about alleged teacher cruelty against an innocent 11 year old…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology “We haven’t had a president yet, including Obama, who has cared about Chicago,” exclaimed Rep. Bobby Rush in an interview. The entire interview can be read…
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA,MA Educational Psychology $7 billion dollars awarded over 7 years ($4.6 billion by 2012) to k-12 public school systems for school improvement did not result in significant increases in the…