has a business degree from the University of Oklahoma.   She is the owner of Scholar Ready, an educational services company. She meets with clients online and her company Scholar Ready tutors Math, conducts personal essay writing workshops, and prepares students for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams.  Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Master Class Jennifer Ledwith.

Talking Points/Questions *

1. Why are HBCUs relevant?
Mr. McDonald, in your interview with Stacy Spratt of the United Negro College Fund, you mentioned the number of successful Black professionals who are products of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Moreover, I’ve seen this success in my family, which hails from Bain Street (yes – that Bain Street in Kashmere Gardens), beginning with my grandfather, an alumnus of Texas College and Texas Southern University.

2. Whether students select an HBCU or a PWI, it’s important for them to have choices. Test scores unlock access to scholarships and academic programs. Often, African Americans are locked out of these opportunities: on average, African Americans score a 908 (out of 1600) on the SAT and a 16 (out of 36) on the ACT.

3. PSAT, SAT, and ACT aren’t for Black kids? Why should we bother?
We should bother because of the opportunities for scholarships and the opportunities to improve literacy.

4. When should my child start preparing for college?

5. Understood from a young age that education and literacy were crucial to success. 

6. People told her that her mother — a single parent with serious debt and no child support — made too much money for her to get any free money for college.

7. She didn't finish in the top 10% of her high school class (which is academic poison in her home state of Texas).

#BEST

#STRAW

#SHMS

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has a business degree from the University of Oklahoma.   She is the owner of Scholar Ready, an educational services company. She meets with clients online and her company Scholar Ready tutors Math, conducts personal essay writing workshops, and prepares students for PSAT, SAT, and ACT exams.  Please welcome to Money Making Conversations Master Class Jennifer Ledwith.

Talking Points/Questions *

1. Why are HBCUs relevant?
Mr. McDonald, in your interview with Stacy Spratt of the United Negro College Fund, you mentioned the number of successful Black professionals who are products of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Moreover, I’ve seen this success in my family, which hails from Bain Street (yes – that Bain Street in Kashmere Gardens), beginning with my grandfather, an alumnus of Texas College and Texas Southern University.

2. Whether students select an HBCU or a PWI, it’s important for them to have choices. Test scores unlock access to scholarships and academic programs. Often, African Americans are locked out of these opportunities: on average, African Americans score a 908 (out of 1600) on the SAT and a 16 (out of 36) on the ACT.

3. PSAT, SAT, and ACT aren’t for Black kids? Why should we bother?
We should bother because of the opportunities for scholarships and the opportunities to improve literacy.

4. When should my child start preparing for college?

5. Understood from a young age that education and literacy were crucial to success. 

6. People told her that her mother — a single parent with serious debt and no child support — made too much money for her to get any free money for college.

7. She didn't finish in the top 10% of her high school class (which is academic poison in her home state of Texas).

#BEST

#STRAW

#SHMS

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two-time Emmy and Three-NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Monique Wells.  She is an award-winning educator and practitioner of her craft for over 20 years. She is a transformational leader and a change agent. As an international humanitarian who has been ‘called to serve’ the underrepresented impacting and donating to inner city communities and families.

As a powerful and award-winning educator and teacher of the year nominee, she is a fierce advocate for teachers, students, and parents. She is an expert on school reform and an impactful educator who has successfully raised test scores for scholars in grades PreK through 12th grade for over two decades.

    
The RESTART Educational Foundation‘s mission is transformational change in schools. With our innovative and evidenced based framework, we are able to close the academic achievement gap for grades Pre-K - 12 within one year. We strive to Engage, Educate, and Empower scholars to become global leaders and citizens of the world regardless of their zip code.

We believe that closing the student achievement gap is a moral imperative.

#BEST

#STRAW

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Two-time Emmy and Three-NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Monique Wells.  She is an award-winning educator and practitioner of her craft for over 20 years. She is a transformational leader and a change agent. As an international humanitarian who has been ‘called to serve’ the underrepresented impacting and donating to inner city communities and families.

As a powerful and award-winning educator and teacher of the year nominee, she is a fierce advocate for teachers, students, and parents. She is an expert on school reform and an impactful educator who has successfully raised test scores for scholars in grades PreK through 12th grade for over two decades.

    
The RESTART Educational Foundation‘s mission is transformational change in schools. With our innovative and evidenced based framework, we are able to close the academic achievement gap for grades Pre-K - 12 within one year. We strive to Engage, Educate, and Empower scholars to become global leaders and citizens of the world regardless of their zip code.

We believe that closing the student achievement gap is a moral imperative.

#BEST

#STRAW

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two-time Emmy and Three-NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Monique Wells.  She is an award-winning educator and practitioner of her craft for over 20 years. She is a transformational leader and a change agent. As an international humanitarian who has been ‘called to serve’ the underrepresented impacting and donating to inner city communities and families.

As a powerful and award-winning educator and teacher of the year nominee, she is a fierce advocate for teachers, students, and parents. She is an expert on school reform and an impactful educator who has successfully raised test scores for scholars in grades PreK through 12th grade for over two decades.

    
The RESTART Educational Foundation‘s mission is transformational change in schools. With our innovative and evidenced based framework, we are able to close the academic achievement gap for grades Pre-K - 12 within one year. We strive to Engage, Educate, and Empower scholars to become global leaders and citizens of the world regardless of their zip code.

We believe that closing the student achievement gap is a moral imperative.

#BEST

#STRAW

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Support the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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