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Insurgent Education - Arguments for Educare For All
A Teacher who has had Enough of Too Little.
I've been getting paid to teach for over 25 years. I've worked in every corner of the education market. I've been the CEO of two education companies, QuantumCamp and Leaf Education. I've worked in some of the most underserved districts in the entire country. I'm an expert in test prep courses. I've worked extensively with students with learning disabilities. I've trained hundreds of teachers. I popularized microschooling while working in the homeschool community. I developed original curriculum design methodologies new to education. I had the fortune to work with students from every walk of life in this country. I've learned more about this great country from them, than I have from the news, any book, or documentary.
When I first became a public school teacher, my plan was to teach for two or three years and go back into science. I quickly learned that the problems facing our education system were deeply systemic and unjust. And worse, there was no viable plan to fix any of it. I didn't write this book because I think I have the best solution. I wrote this book, because no else does.
The American education system is failing, maybe failed. Ask any teacher with more than a decade of experience and they will be able to testify to this reality. The students struggle more to understand less. The teachers work harder and are less effective. The school administrators and education “leaders” have no plan to fix any of this. Those with means are abandoning the public schools for private school alternatives, and have been year over year for the last two decades. We are in crisis. We have here a social emergency, an economic emergency, and a national security emergency.
Repainting our schools is not enough. Simply removing oneself from the failed system is no longer a moral position to hold. It is imperative that we formulate a series of experiments to address this national crisis. This book is a call to arms, a call to action for our educational, business, and political leaders. This book offers real and viable alternative educational schemes to rectify the educational injustice that is now running rampant across our great lands.
Insurgent Education - Arguments for Educare For All
A warm welcome. Education is in crisis and is in need of an overhaul for the Twenty-first Century.