Stop The Bus

Stop the Bus is a collection of letters written to media editors throughout the country. The author's intent was to challenge America to think differently about education and to do more than accept the oft repeated diatribe about schools. The author believes America's educational system can be revitalized in 200 words per day over a 31 day period.

Autorentext

Nathaniel A. Turner is a parent & education activist and author of multiple books, including Raising Supaman and Stop The Bus: Education Reform in 31 Days. Turner has appeared in numerous media outlets, including Black Enterprise, iHeartRadio, The Good Men Project, The Washington Post, and U.S. News & World Report. As a zealous advocate that every person has an opportunity to maximize their human potential, Nate shares through courses, workshops, and conferences 'The Life Template,' a backward design life process he first developed to help his son meet the rigorous educational requirements of the top colleges and universities. Turner created 'The Life Template' in 1994 to make sure his then-unborn child would meet the admission criteria for Harvard University: intellectual astuteness, global competency, and humanitarian centered. Without means of wealth, privilege, legacy status, fraud, bribery, cheating or Adobe Photoshop, Turner's son not only met Harvard's admission benchmarks (i.e., test scores in top 1%, 33 college credits, proficiency in four languages, lived abroad playing soccer for more than a year; and started a foundation to address teen homelessness); he eviscerated the profiled criterion by his sixteenth birthday. At present, Turner's son is an Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student at one of the nation's premier graduate engineering schools. Today, those tools, techniques, and strategies initially created to help his child thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution are educational and life development staples for students, parents, and organizations all over the country. Turner holds multiple degrees, ranging from Accounting (History Theology and Law (Juris Doctor). The diversity of this TED speaker's formal education, combined with a wide range of personal experiences and professions, makes him a modern-day Renaissance Man and a highly sought-after speaker. When Nathaniel's time on the planet is up, the self-described Humanity Propulsion Engineer hopes to be remembered merely as a man who did his best to leave the earth better than it was when he arrived.

Inhalt

Foreword 8 DAY 1 Air Mail Fiasco 10 DAY 2 America's Epidemic 11 DAY 3 Ask The Right Question 12 DAY 4 #BlackLivesMatter 13 DAY 5 Career Ready versus College Ready 14 DAY 6 Case Managers 15 DAY 7 Childbirth Reform 16 DAY 8 Critical Thinking Anyone?! 17 DAY 9 Do No Harm 18 DAY 10 Does Anyone Own A Dictionary? 19 DAY 11 Dream Killers 20 DAY 12 Help Everyone 21 DAY 13 Hierarchy of Needs 22 DAY 14 Measure Me! 23 DAY 15 No More Time 24 DAY 16 On The Record 25 DAY 17 Public Deception 26 DAY 18 Public Service 27 DAY 19 So Fresh and So Clean 28 DAY 20 Something to Opt in to 29 DAY 21 Student-Athlete 30 DAY 22 Take a Walk 31 DAY 23 The Great Education Parody 322 DAY 24 The Hostage Negotiator 33 DAY 25 The Lonely 5 Percent 34 DAY 26 The New Buzzword 35 DAY 27 The Pope Is Here 36 DAY 28 The Rule, Not the Exception 37 DAY 29 We Are All Doomed 38 DAY 30 Where Do the Children Play? 39 DAY 31 Who's On First? 40 The Author 42