Resurrecting Our Schools (& Nation) To Achieve New Levels of Excellence | David Ellison | TEDxAjijic

Thu Apr 10, 2025

Our schools are failing and in need of radical reform. The problems with our schools are extensive and widespread. Market-based reforms have failed. Most teachers are recruited from the bottom percentiles of college graduates. Our schools are more segregated by race and class then ever before. Our children are sorted by age, not by abilities and aptitudes. Yet we can take action to resurrect our schools to prepare our children for greatness. This talk focuses on a "Marshall Plan" for our city schools: Put a great teacher in every classroom in our country. Recruit our teachers from the top percentile of college graduates; support them with Masters Degrees and a pay them commensurate with other similarly-educated professions; increase their pay based on the socioeconomic level of student populations. These and other achievable actions will resurrect our schools and make our schools system a beacon for educational achievement and national respect. During his thirty-six-year career, David Ellison was a teacher, mentor teacher, school administrator, education columnist and community activist. He worked in schools foreign and domestic, public and private, grades four through college. He served as the New Haven Unified and the American Council of School Administrators Region VI Teacher of the Year in 1996. He has published four books including Bloodletting: Why Education Reform is Killing America’s Schools. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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