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Talking with Mr. Education
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Dr. Joel D. Black has been a national leader in education since 1983. Upon the publication of Developing Leadership: Can Recreation Programs Be Modified to Do It?, Dr. J.T. O’Leary noted, “Mr. Black knows more about leadership than anyone in America.” When Dr. Black delivered a series of 24 lectures on education between 1989 and 1995, the requests to make them available poured in. In 1995, when Lighthouse Publishers were printing Dr. Black’s book, What Everybody Needs to Know About Experiential Education, the publisher and the graphic artist took to calling Dr. Black “Mr. Education.” L.B. Earle noted at the time, “Mr. Black is clearly the best-informed educator in America. Why he is not Secretary of Education is one of the political imponderables of the nation.” In 1992 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers published its first edition, honoring the top five percent of the nation’s teachers, public, private and university level. Mr. Black was among the honored. In the nine subsequent editions, Dr. Black (he earned his PhD in 1999) has been honored six additional times. We are not aware of another seven-time honoree in the country. When the Congress of the United States passed the “No Child Left Behind” education act of 2001, it called for a “highly qualified teacher in every classroom.” The new law was so stringent that forty percent of America’s teachers were found “unqualified.” Very few were “highly qualified.” Immediately two organizations began offering a national “professional” teaching certificate to those who could pass muster. Dr. Black, of course, applied immediately. The reply he received to his application surprised him. “We have no way to assess you at the present time. Your situation and skills far exceed our parameters.” Dr. Black was not surprised when a follow-up letter invited him to sit on the evaluation board. It appears that he is the only teacher in the country “highly qualified” in seven separate disciplines.
Dr. Black has made his extensive background, and simple solutions, available to the nation. Through books, monographs, lectures and chatrooms, as well as through the private school he founded, students nationwide can earn alternative credits and get their questions answered about how to procure the education they deserve. Parents can get clear answers to the many political conundrums, and can find a way to steer a clear course to the education their children deserve. Additionally, through the enrichment experiences and scholarships Dr. Black both sponsors, and recommends, hundreds of students each year can get a leg up on the system, and with that edge, can achieve all that they have dreamed.
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