Scroll on Down to Read the Five Most Important Articles That You Will Ever Read on K-12 Education

My great thanks to all of you avid readers of this blog, the readership of which was already on a steep ascent and then exploded upward with the publication of my article, "A Tale of Two Girards," in the Sunday, 30 April, edition of the Star Tribune.


I am a meticulous researcher who places great importance on factual detail. 


As a K-12 revolutionary, I embrace the responsibility for delivery of fact-based information typically lacking in the discussion of our K-12 dilemma in the United States.  This blog clearly, forcefully, and logically presents ideas undergirded with fact, rigorous analysis, and systematic philosophical reasoning.  Such a presentation is found nowhere else among either those who occupy sinecures in the education establishment or those calling murkily for reform.


This blog does what neither the education establishment nor those putatively advocating education reform do:  articulate clearly the meaning of an excellent education, define the qualities of the excellent teacher, and assert the necessity for an overhaul of K-12 education on the strengths of knowledge-intensive curriculum, excellent teachers, aggressive skill remediation, outreach to families of students facing severe life challenges, and great reduction in the central school district bureaucracy.


As you scroll on down this blog, you will read the five most important articles that you will ever read on K-12 education. 


In these articles, I have combined data that I have most recently fastidiously accumulated for my nearly complete new book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect, with slightly prior data accumulations to tell a compelling story of the current circumstances at the Minneapolis Public Schools, articulating certain achievements of new Superintendent Ed Graff (nine months into his tenure), and thrusting forward my five-point plan for overhauling MPS so as to advance the prospects for this particular iteration of the locally centralized school district to serve as a model for other urban districts.


In the five articles that you will read as you scroll on down this blog, you will review my five-point plan in considerable detail, come to understand what Graff has accomplished thus far in accord with this plan, and get a strong sense of the many measures that must now be taken to move forward on the strength of this promising beginning.


Read on, then, for the presentation of the five most important articles that you will ever read on K-12 education.