Chapters One Through Sixty of >Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools: Current Condition, Future Prospect< Now Provided as Readers Scroll Down the Immediate Entries Below >>>>> Part Three: Philosophy Coming Soon

Readers now have access to chapters one through sixty of my book, Understanding the Minneapolis Public Schools:  Current Condition, Future Prospect.  These include chapters from Part One:  Facts;  and Part Two:  Analysis.  The chapters of Part One present strictly objective information and data pertinent to an array of matters concerning the personnel, departments, and academic program of the Minneapolis Public Schools.  The chapters of Part Two present my analysis of the facts presented in Part One.  While frequently reminding readers to return to the objective information of Part One for their own examination, in Part Two I offer my own penetrating analysis of the academic record prevailing in the Minneapolis Public Schools and clearly indicate the individuals most responsible for the abysmal tale told by that record.  

 

I will soon be entering chapters from Part Three:  Philosophy.

This latter part is a book within a book, the product of my 48 years as a teacher, scholar, and observer of preK-12 education in Minnesota, the nation, and comparable systems throughout the world.  The reading that I have done is exhaustive.  The thinking that I have done has been incisive.  I know education at all levels in the United States better than anyone on the planet.  Anyone.  If one among you thinks you know someone with superior knowledge of public education systems in Minnesota, the United States, or across the globe, identify that person and I will meet them in a public forum under formal debate conditions.

Thus be aware that in scrolling down through the immediately succeeding sixty chapters you are reading two-thirds of a seminal work focused on the inner workings of a locally centralized school district, the Minneapolis Public Schools, that typifies such system across the United States.  The one-third of the book constituted by Part Three:  Philosophy will follow in the course of this week.

 

Parts One and Two indicate clearly that officials of the Minneapolis Public Schools are culpable for the delivery of a wretched quality of preK-12 education.

 

Part Three explains how we got in this mess---

 

and how we can get out---