I wrote comment #6 at:
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-b...-role-in-public-education-rep-mike-hondaRep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) better mean "each and every child" when he writes: "The international achievement gap will also close as we employ all the tools in our toolbox to ensure that each and every child is successful."
Civil Rights are not just for poor people, or for people who are functionally illiterate or who are flunking out of school. Civil Rights are also for the most brilliant young people in America � The Top One Percent � the geniuses.
I have proposed a national public high school for the most brilliant young people in America who have career interests in mathematics and the sciences. I call my proposed school "NASA Academy of the Physical Sciences" (NAPS), and my proposal can be read at:
http://nasa-academy-of-the-physical-sciences.blogspot.com/NAPS was designed with the national security interests of the U.S. in mind. Please read:
http://nasa-academy-of-the-physical...9/11/making-it-happen-nasa-and-naps.htmlI participate in an online forum regarding NAPS at:
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....7811/Proposal_NASA_Academy_of_the_P.htmlThe guiding light for NAPS should be found in a U.S. commitment to meaningful National Education Standards. In my thinking, the basic National Education Standards should be: Every Child 21st-Century-Literate at No Less Than Grade Level While Being Actively Challenged and Fully Facilitated to Achieve Personal Potentials in All Core Academics. At the top end where NAPS exists, the National Education Standards should be simply this: Students Must Be Advanced to the Academic Level at Which They Can Succeed While Being Challenged.
NAPS is doable. Please read my proposal.
Steven A. Sylwester
BY Steven A. Sylwester on 11/19/2010 at 03:21
