BIOGRAPHY
David V.
Anderson
David Anderson
was born in Chicago in 1941 where he spent his formative
years. While following a pre-medical course of study as an
undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, he grew fond of mathematics and physics and
eventually decided to pursue graduate work in physics.
During his eight years of graduate study he took one year
off to teach high school physics and mathematics. Returning
to his graduate studies he obtained a Ph.D. in plasma
physics from the University of California at Davis in 1971.
From 1971 until 1994 he pursued a career in plasma physics,
mostly at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
During his years at Livermore he worked on the Magnetic
Fusion Energy project, which has been an effort to generate
electricity from thermonuclear reactions. He has published
over 30 scientific articles on his work. Elected a Fellow
of the American Physical Society in 1992, he also served on
its governing Council.
In 1993 he availed himself of a voluntary early retirement
program so that he could spend more time on his other
interests, which have included education, politics, public
policy, science policy and popular culture. During the
1990’s he was active in California Republican
politics and ran twice for the State Assembly in 1992 and
again in 1994, in the Oakland area. During the 1993-94
election cycle he served as Treasurer of the Alameda County
Republican Party. In 1993 he ran the speaker’s bureau
for the Proposition 174 (school vouchers) campaign in the
San Francisco Bay Area. Later, in 2000 he was the Director
of the Speakers Bureau for another voucher initiative,
Prop. 38.
During the period 1999 to 2003 he studied finance and
economics to become a financial planner and in doing that
passed the CFP examination. After working approximately two
years in the field, he decided to study financial analysis.
At first his plan was to obtain the CFA (Chartered
Financial Analyst) certificate, but after passing the first
year’s examination he felt he had the financial
knowledge and experience to start a business. So one could
say that his four years interlude in the financial
profession gave him the intellectual wherewithal to segue
into a project of developing a business in the educational
sector where there have been many unmet needs that
entrepreneurs like him could fill.
From 2003 to the present he has developed a new model for
educating students in our K-12 school systems. In the
business he is developing, Asora Education Enterprises and
its Stellar Schools Franchising Project, he intends to use
franchising and technology to make schools and their
personnel more productive with the result that students
will learn more. At the current time he is seeking players
and investors to help grow the business, which at present
is staffed by sweat equity workers. He is also attempting
to launch a non-profit version of this same effort.
Also, currently, Asora Education's consulting business is
generating small revenues by providing achievement test
analysis services in which state reported (inflated)
student proficiencies are mapped to the NAEP scale of the
Nation's Report Card.
David Anderson and his wife Susan, between them, have four
successful adult children and are now grandparents of five
grandchildren for whom they would like to see the
availability of schools that are much better than what are
now common in either the public or private sectors.