Asora
Speakers Bureau
We are
available to make public presentations on most of the
aspects of Asora Education Enterprises. In most cases we
waive our speaking fees and expenses for presentations in
Rhode Island.
Asora
Presentation Topics
All of
our topics are related in the sense that our proposals for
online instruction provide an affordable way to address the
problems we see from our studies of student achievement.
The first four presentations below discuss aspects of the
"solution" while the remaining ones mainly focus on the
"problems."
1. The
ASORA Concept: How online, on demand instruction can
overhaul brick & mortar schools.
2.
The ASORA Concept: How franchising is the best structural
format for organizing schools.
3.
The ASORA Concept: The curriculum and how is it tested.
4.
The ASORA Concept: What a physics course would be like in
this new world.
5.
The ELQ Methods: How we remove test inflation from state
reported achievement examinations.
6.
How your local public schools would perform on the
Nation’s Report Card.
7.
How Rhode Island schools, according to the Nation’s
Reports Card, compare to those of other states.
8.
Troubles with the NECAP examinations and their possible
remedies.
9.
What is your High
School Success Rate (low)
and what can be done to raise it (higher).
10.
Restoring Integrity To High School Graduation Requirements.
11. How
do educators deceive us more about disadvantaged
children’s progress than for the others?
12.
What you can do when the public system blocks reform.
13.
The international perspective: How do American schools
perform compared to those abroad?
14.
Is social promotion the problem- and self-pacing the
answer? An historical perspective.
15.
Is it corruption and fraud or could the root causes of
public education dysfunction be more innocent?
16.
What community organizations can do to help reform K-12
schools.
If you
are interested in learning more about having a speaker make
a presentation to your group please contact
us.
Asora
Prerecorded Video & Powerpoint
Presentations
CEO
David Anderson has made video recordings of a number of
presentations- several of which can be viewed directly or
indirectly from this website. Click on the links for
access:
1. Overview of the Stellar Schools
project.
2. Why Stellar
Schools?
3. NECAP is Broken and How to
Fix It
4. Algebra 1 prototype
sample in a
PowerPoint presentation.
5. On Teaching
Physics: the
actual speech given in Lausanne, Switzerland.
6. Physics
Lecturette #1 in a
PowerPoint presentation.
7. Physics
Lecturette #149 in a
PowerPoint presentation.
8. On Teaching
Physics:
PowerPoint version of item 4.
9. Extended
Presentation On Teaching Physics in
PowerPoint.
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Items 1,
2 & 4 will play directly from the website. The
PowerPoint presentations generally will not play from the
website, but the files can be downloaded for local viewing.