What's New at Asora
Advancing
the Goal of Ending Education as We Know
It
For First Time
Visitors:
Welcome
to Asora Education Enterprises, which presently consists of
the Stellar Schools Franchising Project and the achievement
test analysis consulting service. To get started consider
reviewing our home page where there are links to descriptions
of the many features of Stellar Schools. Then come back
here later to "What's New" and to "What Was New" to
learn more about our most recent
undertakings.
What Was New In Preceding Updates:
If you
have not seen (or have forgotten) our earlier "What's New"
updates, then you might want to peruse our
What Was New page.
What's
New In September 2008
Education
Next Will Report On Choice
Paul
Peterson, editor of Education Next, told an audience of
think tank education experts that his publication will soon
release information about school choice systems around the
world that will show a strong relationship between the
degree of choice available and the proficiency of students.
Such information is welcome as it will encourage the
enlargement of the opportunities for innovators to develop
alternative schools and methodologies. This would make more
room for Asora to participate.
Asora
Analyses of State Achievement Tests
Continuing
its work for stakeholders around the United States, Asora
has now completed work analyzing how local schools and
districts would have performed on the NAEP in six states:
Oklahoma, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, and Vermont. As we've noted before a similar
picture emerges in each of these states: Social promotion
affects every school and even the best public schools have
very large fractions of their students below grade level.
Asora is seeking a contract to do all of the public schools
in the United States. Recent discussions with
GreatSchools.Net may
lead to such a result. Or could lead to imitation (in
which others would use our openly available
methodologies) to accomplish the same goal.
Asora
CEO: Candidate For State Assembly
David
Anderson is now engaged in a political campaign for the
Rhode Island General Assembly where he would represent its
4th district (located on Providence's East Side). See
his campaign website for
details. Given the severely dysfunctional status of the
state's public education system, well over half of his
political efforts are focused on it. Given the part-time
nature of this body, he will be able to continue the
Asora developments after his election. To avoid
conflicts of interest he will propose Stellar School
"like" solutions for public schools, but will suggest
the use of other vendors such as K12, Inc. to provide
the courseware.
From the point of view of public policy he is proposing:
1. The state adopt internal reforms of schools,
including honest
reporting
of test results, Regent's diplomas (given to students who
are actually proficient), alternative certification, and
more online instruction.
2. The state adopt what we call external reforms by
introducing funding mechanisms (scholarships, tax credits,
vouchers) to give all parents a choice in selecting the
schools their children attend. He would also change the
labor laws to allow multiple unions to represent workers
according to the workers' individual choices. This would be
a form of a right to work law.
Asora
Speakers Bureau
Asora
Education Enterprises will offer public speakers to venues
interested in K-12 education reform. Please use our
contact page
to
request further information about having one of us make
a presentation at your location.