Note to My Readers >>>>> Please Scroll on Down to the Next Two Articles, Meant to Be Read as a Tandem

Note to My Readers  >>>>>>>




After reading this note, please scroll on down to the next two articles, intended as a tandem.




In the first article, "Inadequacy of Strategic Plan:  Acceleration 2020 of the Minneapolis Public Schools," I discuss the lack of specificity as to the constituent elements of an excellent education---  and how to achieve educational excellence---  in the document that officials at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) have generated to guide policy of the school district through year 2020.


In the second article, "Envisioning a Better World, with the Minneapolis Public Schools Leading the Way," I offer a vision for educational excellence, consistent with the principles and the program of the New Salem Educational Initiative, which when embraced by officials of MPS will become a model for education imparted by a locally centralized school district.  The edifices of such an overhauled source of K-12 education would become the sites of an institution wherein knowledge and ethics are so valued as to become a matter of community pride and the basis for a new community identity in Minneapolis generally and North Minneapolis specifically.


Please scroll on down to the next two articles,therefore, for an analysis of current deficiencies in the Minneapolis Public Schools and a vision for transformation of that very school district into a world-renowned center of knowledge and ethics.