A Small Man with a Big Heart.

HERMAN BALDOMERO October 13, 1930 – June 23, 2022 My friend who made my move to Barrio Villamonte in 1981 when I signed on to teach high school math (third year Geometry) an easy transition despite the culture shock of moving into an alien world of language, class, and cultural differences. Villamonte was slowly transforming

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Moonshot:  Inside Pfizer’s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible. By Dr. Albert Bourla, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer HarperCollins Books, 2022 A moonshot is a term associated with setting big, hairy, audacious goals.  It is drawn from the 1961 pledge of John F. Kennedy before the US Congress when he proposed that the US “should

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The Checklist Manifesto:  How to get things right. By Atul Gawande, surgeon and MD Picador Books, 2009 I was hospitalized for weeks with what was called long COVID-19 in 2021 and over that four-week stay, every day, multiple times, nurses administering medicines, lab technicians drawing blood, dialysis nurses hooking me up would ask me the

Commentary

FEAR FOR THE COUNTRY’S FUTURE A look at what the return of the Marcoses means. J. M. Luz NOTE:  Published by Rappler, May 28, 2021 The election is over.  It was not the outcome we hoped and worked for.  Now to live with the reality of a Marcos Jr. presidency. This new chapter has its

RETHINKING EDUCATION: Junior High School (Grades 7-10)

ESSAY 8 PISA AND WHAT IT REVEALED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM    Juan Miguel Luz[1] Fellow, FEU Public Policy Center The spotty quality of Philippine basic education is something we knew anecdotally but until the PISA results of 2018, did not have objective evidence to bring this into a national discourse on