Background
Badillo, Herman was born on August 21, 1929 in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
( Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and ...)
Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don’t put the same emphasis on education as other immigrant groups. As the nation’s first Puerto Ricanborn U.S. congressman, the trailblazing Badillo once supported bilingual education and other government programs he thought would help the Hispanic community. But he came to see that the real path to prosperity, political unity, and the American mainstream is self-reliance, not big government. Now Badillo is a champion of one standard of achievement for all races and ethnicities. In this surprising and controversial manifesto, you will learn: • Why Hispanic culture’s trouble with education, democracy, and economics stems from Mother Spain and the five-hundred year siesta” she induced in Latin America. • Why the Congressman who drafted the first Spanish-English bilingual education legislation now believes that bilingual education hurts students more than it helps. • Why social promotion” putting minority students’ self-esteem ahead of their academic performance and then admitting them to college unprepared continues to this day, despite the system’s documented failures and injustices. • How self-identifying as Hispanic” or white” or black” undermines achievement, and what lessons we can learn from Latin American countries, where one’s race is irrelevant. With Central and Latin America exporting a large portion of their poor, Hispanics are on the way to becoming a majority in the United States... but one with all the problems of a minority culture. Badillo’s solution to this problem relies on traditional values: hard work, education, and achievement. His lessons are important not only for Hispanics but for every American.
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United States Representative from New York
Badillo, Herman was born on August 21, 1929 in Caguas, Puerto Rico.
City College of the City University of New York (Bachelor of Business Administration, magna cum laude, 1951). Brooklyn Law School (Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, 1951. Juris Doctor, 1967); spoken languages: Spanish.
Deputy commissioner, New York, 1962. Commissioner relocation, 1963—1966. Borough president Bronx, New York, 1966—1970.
Chairman Committee Health, Housing & Social Service, New York State Constitution Convention, 1967. Delegate Democratic National Convention, 1968—1978. Member credentials Committee, 1968.
Member Democratic Nomination Mayor New York, 1969, 1973, 1977. Member United States congress 21st New York District, 1971—1978. Delegate Democratic National Mid-Term Conference, 1974, 1978, Democratic National Convention, 1980.
Member, platform committee, 1976. Deputy mayor policy, 1978—1979. Member, mayor's judiciary committee.
Trustee CCUNY, 1991—2001. Special counsel Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, 1994—1996, Ferro, Berdon & Company Certified Public Accountant, 1951—1955. Attorney Permut & Badillo, 1955—1962, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, New York City, 1970—1974.
Adjunct professor School Urban Education, Fordham University, 1970—1980. Attorney Fischbein, Olivieri, Rozenholc & Badillo, 1981—1986. Chairman New York State Mortgage Agency, 1983—1986.
Former attorney Fischbein, Badillo, Wagner, & Harding. Of counsel Sullivan, Papain, Block, McGrath & Cannavo. Distinguished professor education Touro College, since 2002.
( Why aren’t Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and ...)
Member, Board of Trustees, City University of New New York Special Counsel to Mayor Giuliani for the Fiscal Oversight of Education. Member of the Mayor"s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary.