Review of My Activities as a Full-Time K-12 Revolutionary--- For That Sell-Out, Diane Ravitch--- And, Especially, New Readers of This Blog

Favorable responses from good people both inside and outside the hallways at the Davis Center (central offices of the Minneapolis Public Schools [MPS], 1250 West Broadway) give me hope that the K-12 Revolution toward which I am working may occur sooner rather than later.

 

For you newcomers to my 16-hour-a-day commitment of exhaustive revolutionary efforts, this article offers a summary of my activities over the course of the last three years: 

 

Three years ago, in the summer of 2014, after notable positive initiatives (Focused Instruction, Shift, High Priority Schools) on the part of then MPS Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson caught my attention, I launched multiple efforts to establish platforms for the expression of my views.

 

Those platforms and venues included the following:

 

>>>>>  a television show that airs every Wednesday at 6:00 PM on Minneapolis Telecommunications Network (MTN) Channel 17, called The K-12 Revolution with Gary Marvin Davison;

 

>>>>>  a monthly academic journal called Journal of the K-12 Revolution:  Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota;

 

>>>>>  two books, both of which are now nearly complete:  Fundamentals of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education, a book that in 14 chapters (Economics, Psychology, Political Science, World Religions, World History, American History, African American History, English Language Usage, Literature, Fine Arts, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics) provides a complete liberal arts education, extending to high school and university students and to adults the quality of education provided in the Core Knowledge curriculum of E. D. Hirsch;  and Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect;

 

>>>>>  appearances, almost always first-up, at the monthly meetings of the MPS Board of Education during Public Comment;  and attendance at most MPS functions and gatherings, so that I was always present at assemblages pertinent to the two-phase superintendent search.

 

Keep in view that this has all been in addition to running the two programs (New Salem Tuesday Tutoring and the seven-day-a-week small group program) in which I provide direct academic instruction to students and family resource referral under the aegis of the New Salem Educational Initiative, these endeavors reaching 125 people in my personal network.

 

Be aware that in addition to all of this I now have well over 500 articles posted on this blog

(http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com ), at which you can find commentary on essentially all matters pertinent to the inner workings of the Minneapolis Public Schools, educational philosophy, and all issues of interest to those with a passion for K-12 education.

 

This is the most important blog on K-12 education in the nation.

 

That sell-out by the name of Diane Ravitch would be reduced to a knee-quivering wreck should she and I ever meet for a formally refereed debate.

 

Readers in Minneapolis should especially be aware that my nearly complete book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect is a 350-page tome that proceeds in three parts---  Facts, Analysis, and Philosophy--- via which the decision-makers at the Minneapolis Public Schools first hang themselves on their own data;  then I analyze why the telling data conveys the story of failure that those figures do;  and then I present rival educational philosophies and point the way forward on the strength of my own five-point program for change:  1) knowledge-intensive, skill-replete curriculum; 2) thorough training of teacher capable of imparting such a curriculum;  3) aggressive skill remediation (tutoring);  4) outreach and resource provision, direct and by referral, to struggling families;  and 5) dramatic reduction of the central school district bureaucracy at the Davis Center.

 

My experience executing books such as these can be found under author Gary Marvin Davison at Amazon Books;  and in the two books that I wrote for my friend Clarence Hightower when he was President/CEO at the Minneapolis Urban League:  State of African Americans in Minnesota 2004 and State of African Americans in Minnesota 2008.

 

I invite everyone to read as many articles on my blog for which you can make time.

 

And I extend to you an invitation to join the K-12 Revolution, the completion of which will address and eventually solve all of the most vexing domestic issues of our time.