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I first met Rudi a couple of years after I moved to Plainfield, NJ. in 1991. I attended my first
school board meeting where he spoke about the things the school board needed to change to
improve the education provided to our children in Plainfield. We exchanged greetings and
numbers. Below is a Education Improvement Plan that he drafted and provided me a copy. As
you review, you will see that elements of improvement are the same as they were then.
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Education Improvement Plan
If we are serious about education for our children we must be prepared to weather union
opposition. For example:
- Alternative certification; system-wide accountability; teacher's competency test.
- Solidify all community groups
- System-wide all day kindergarten
- System-wide teacher development
- Curriculum reform, example: language arts; test book revision; mathematics and science
upgrade; and computer literacy beginning at grade 3 level
- System-wide after school programs focusing on math, science, and reading
- Development center for principal, administrators and staff
- Center for parents and community development
- Foundation, businesses and colleges to "adopt a school" program
- Junior achievement program
- Esoteric approach, for example, super/accelerated learning; internal/external; exercise;
Thai-chi; yoga; and breathing exercises
- Master teacher development
- Health Programs
- Montessori pilot program for elementary grades
- Student to have the same teacher for at least three years
- Develop a 5-year plan to make educational technology an integral part of public school
education, for example: electronic classroom; computer instruction; satellite
communications; and video disks
- Liberal Arts education
- Entrepreneurship
- Marva Collins pilot school or class
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