Oct 6, 2021

Article #4 >>>>> >Journal of the K-12 Revolution: Essays and Research from Minneapolis, Minnesota<, Volume VIII, Number 4, October 2021

Article #4

 

Exchanges of Early September 2021

 

September 1, 2021

 

Anthony---

 

Lurking behind the obvious in your serviceable mediocrities is always the actual story  >>>>>   a superintendent bereft of academic training (no training in a key subject area, all degrees received at obscure Edgewood College, including a laughable degree-mill doctorate);  a school board bought and paid for by the SPFE, which feigns interest for students on Covid but resists meaningful academic change while NJ in representing woefully trained teachers;  a system that produces an ignorant citizenry  including the 37% SPPS staff members who resist sensible health mandates.

 

Your articles ever cover the obvious, arguably serviceable but never creative or insightful---  much like those of Mara Klecker, Erin Golden, and biweekly columnist Myron Medcalf.  

 

Readers know that they must go to my blog for exhaustive research, incisive inquiry, revealing data, and focus on those vexatious issues that perpetuate cyclical poverty at the urban core---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis Minnesota 55411

http://newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 3, 2021

 

Jenny---

 

Your story is the typical serviceable mediocrity observed at the >Star Tribune<, ever missing the sub-textual, exponentially more significant reality,  in this case, 

 

>>>>>  the comical existence of a department of Learning and Teaching, full of academically insubstantial  central office hacks who possess no advanced degrees in core subject areas;

 

>>>>>  the student teachers who will go forth from a degree mill to ruin so many children's lives;

 

and

 

>>>>>  the wretched education that awaits pre-K students as they move through grades 1-12.

 

Readers know that they must go to my blog for the truth behind the facade---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 3, 2021

 

Libor---

 

Year after year, decade after decade, organizations such as Project Life and Next Step emerge with band-aids applied to academically abused community members whose lives are lived out on mean streets or in prison due to wretched public education, which hack reporters at the >Star Tribune< abet with their variously ignorant, in-denial, or intellectually corrupt journalism.

 

Readers know that they must go to my blog to get the facts and analysis pertinent to cyclical poverty at the urban cord.

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 5, 2021

 

Jennifer---

 

Minneapolis Public Schools Board of Education members receive $20,000 per annum, a significant income supplement for all of them.

 

Board members are with two exceptions in this MPS iteration political hacks who tacitly promote knowledge-deficient curriculum and poor teacher quality at the medium. 

 

Wretched public education produces the ignorant citizenry that issues complaints that never pertain to the core mission of any locally centralized school district.

 

And no one at the >Star Tribune< cares.

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411 

 

September 6, 2021

 

Erin---

 

As is your wont, you missed the real story, which is that students at overrated Eden Prairie fail the grade 11 math MCA in droves and though well-regarded by paltry USA standards would be laughable as a high school in Singapore or Taiwan;  and that Lakeville South features weak curriculum as led by academic lightweight principal Shaun Murphey (no graduate degrees in key academic areas, those received from the degree mill at St. Thomas), whose pseudo-philosophy of education devalues specified knowledge sets---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 7, 2021

 

Jenny---

 

There are many telling signs in Jeffrey Ridlehoover's comments, career, and training that identify him as an establishment figure who has and will perpetuate the woeful K-12 system as it is.

 

Sartell, by the way, is a locus of one if the six farcical Regional Centers of Excellence.

 

Not knowing the pertinent questions to ask impedes journalistic inquiry and the conveyance of foundational truths---

 

With best regards---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 8, 2021

 

Jana, Zoe, and Erin

 

Alway there abides a non-academic issue to obscure the key vexations that will send knowledge-deficient graduates across the stage to claim a piece of paper that is a degree in name only, going forth to comprise the ignorant citizenry that such a system produces---

 

With best wishes

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411


http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 8, 2021

 

Erin, Mara, and Anthony---

 

The truly important story obscured by your hack journalism is that Hoover students perform at abysmal Minnesota state median on MCAs, while only one-third of Twin Cities Academy students are proficient in math, only 50% proficient in reading---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com 

 

September 3, 2021

 

Jenny---

 

Your story is the typical serviceable mediocrity observed at the >Star Tribune<, ever missing the sub-textual, exponentially more significant reality,  in this case, 

 

>>>>>  the comical existence of a department of Learning and Teaching, full of academically insubstantial  central office hacks who possess no advanced degrees in core subject areas;

 

>>>>>  the student teachers who will go forth from a degree mill to ruin so many children's lives;

 

and

 

>>>>>  the wretched education that awaits pre-K students as they move through grades 1-12.

 

Readers know that they must go to my blog for the truth behind the facade---

 

With best wishes---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 9, 2021

 

Mara---

 

The academic portion of the Comprehensive District Design---  which even if you read, you most likely did not understand---  is a jargon-infested document that offers no plan for improvement in curriculum, teaching, or academic achievement.

 

A "nice teacher" and "fun game at recess" do not portend academic advance.

 

And whether ignorant, in denial, or outright morally corrupt, neither you nor anyone at the >Star Tribune< cares.

 

With best wishes---  

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 

September 9, 2021

 

Alex---

 

Two children under age 10 dead;  a 12 year-old gone;  a 10 year-old recuperating from gunshot wounds---  and as long as abysmal K-12 education promotes cyclical poverty at the urban core, young people will be committed to mean streets leading to early psychic or physical death---  as >Star Tribune< education reporters continue to do the bidding of the establishment teachers and administrators responsible.

 

For assuredly, whether ignorant, in denial, or outright morally corrupt, not a single reporter or columnist at the >Star Tribune< cares---

 

With best wished---

 

Gary

 

Gary Marvin Davison, Ph.D.

Director, New Salem Educational Initiative

2507 Bryant Avenue North

Minneapolis  MN  55411

http://www.newsalemeducation.blogspot.com

 


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