The
immediately succeeding articles as you scroll on down are among the most important
that I have written and presented on what my bevy of readers know is the best
blog in the United States on K-12 education.
These
next articles pertain to the K-12 Revolution that will sweep down the halls of
the Davis Center (central offices of the Minneapolis Public Schools [MPS]) in
the course of the next few months, bringing a through reorganization that will
affect the current departments or offices of Teaching and Learning, Black Male
Achievement, Indian Education, Student/Family/Community Engagement, College and
Career Readiness, Funded Programs, Homeless/Highly Mobile Services, and
Volunteer Programs.
This reorganization
will bring worthy staff members into two new departments, the Department of Academic
Assistance and The Department of Resource Provision and Referral, each meant to
abet the impartation of a new knowledge-intensive, skill-replete curriculum by thoroughly
retrained teachers. In the articles
below, and in my substantially complete book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools: Current Condition, Future Prospect (on
course to take final form by this coming May 2018)
I
detail the reorganization that will bring an excellent education to all MPS students,
sending them forth at graduation with keen life prospects as culturally
enriched, civically prepared, professionally satisfied citizens.
I
have now posted over 600 articles on this blog, each one of which is carefully
written and exhaustively researched. I
present my own ideas on the revolution needed in K-12 education in the context
of the history of education in the United States, past and current government
policy (national, state, local), and those ideas of both the education
establishment and other advocates of change that stand in marked contrast to my
own.
You
will find this same quality in evidence on my television show, The K-12 Revolution with Dr. Gary Marvin
Davison, which appears every Wednesday at 6:00 PM on public access
Minneapolis Telecommunications Network (MTN) Channel 17. The program may be seen live on Minneapolis
cable or live streaming at the MTN website.
On
my show, I have in the course of time presented information of the kind given
above. I have also conducted interviews
with important personages and given viewers an opportunity to see me work with
my students in the New Salem Educational Initiative. During this academic year of 2017-2018, I
have given particular emphasis to commentary, most recently presenting the
content of books by Amanda Ripley (The
Smartest Kids in the World--- and How
They Got That Way) and E. D. Hirsch (The
Schools We Need--- and Why We Don’t Have
Them), amid references to works by James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Diane Ravitch, and many authors of
classic and contemporary works of significance.
Just
as this is the best blog in the United States pertinent to K-12 education, so
is my television show the best in that medium for the examination of issues
relevant to public education.
Please
watch The K-12 Revolution with Dr. Gary
Marvin Davison tonight and every Wednesday at 6:00 PM on Channel 17 in
Minneapolis or live streaming at the Minneapolis Telecommunications Network.
Now
please scroll on down this blog for the important immediately succeeding
articles--- and, as you have time, proceed to the more than 600 highly
substantive articles posted over the course of the last seven years.
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