Parent/Guardian Education Program

Participants in the Parent/Guardian Education Program are presented with a full history of public education from 1900 to the present. The educational theories of John Dewey and William Harris as they relate to the adoption of the Prussian training system that is still used by all public schools in the United States today are reviewed.

Parents and guardians will learn about the history of IQ testing, the self-esteem movement, and No Child Left Behind.

The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education as they are defined historically are explored.

Objective criteria for selecting a college and a college major are discussed, including such things as using per capita endowment to measure graduate loyalty, discovering how to use per capita appointments of graduates to executive positions in Standard and Poor's listed companies as a base for choosing a college, learning how per capita appointments of graduates to top ten graduate and professional schools can be used to determine the quality of an undergraduate college program, and many more rarely explored determinants in terms of ranking colleges.

Why annual college ranking magazines are not reflective of on-campus realities.

The possible causes of the conditions referred to as ADD and ADHD, and the reasons these disabilities are rooted in American culture and the school system itself rather than in the physiology of children are studied.

The parent/guardian education program also speaks to the crisis in today's classrooms, and what can be done about your student's poor experiences.

Curriculum integration is discussed, as well as the impact school boards on the practical aspects of classroom presentation.

Rote education systems, project methods, and the effect of ignoring such things as aptitudes, interests, skills, maturity level and learning style when adopting curriculum for individual students are investigated.

Parents and guardians learn about current counseling environments in public and private schools in America, and the likelihood that their student will receive little or no assistance in planning an academic path to walk on in high school or choosing an appropriate college.

Parents and guardians learn why private scholarships are the least promising in terms of finding dollars for a student to attend a top rated college.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act is discussed, along with its history, and the continued ramifications of the Act.

Unionism, ethnocentrism, graduation rates, faculty psychology, laissez-faire, manual and vocational training are explored.

Recentering the SAT and the reasons it became necessary are analyzed.

The reasons that critical thinking experiences are lacking, especially in public schools in the United States are studied.

Parents and guardians are shown the competitive position of our best public high school graduates as opposed to the best high school graduates of other industrialized nations. Reasons for this lack of accomplishment are discussed in objective terms.

Experiments with child centered schools, common schools, life adjustment education, loss of teacher authority, open education, the reading wars, and many others are considered.

Equal opportunity and what that has come to mean in America's public schools is investigated.

Finally, the parent/guardian education program participants learn how best to navigate the current educational systems in America, and become more effective for their student than the overworked counselors on their student's public or private school campus.