Unique
Experience and Capabilities
Stellar
Schools Development Corporation Mission Statement:
We at
the Stellar Schools Development Corporation recognize that
public schools, and to a lesser extent private schools, are
unnecessarily costly and tend to provide poor quality
instructional services.
High
quality affordable private schools are within reach and it
is the goal of the Stellar Schools effort to develop such
schools. These schools are based on best methods, best
technologies, and best incentives.
We believe that enough is already known about what methods,
technologies and structural formats work to design the
schools we seek. Surely more (competent) research in
education is needed, but enough is already understood about
best practices to launch our project now.
We believe the best approaches to developing and providing
K-12 educational services will rely on both the non-profit
and the for-profit private sectors of our economy. We will
need the economies of scale provided by operating networks
of schools either under licensing or franchising
arrangements.
We therefore seek to develop networks of locally owned
schools that will utilize:
•
High quality content, including aspects of the Core
Knowledge sub-curriculum, the Hillsdale Academy curriculum
and the AMSA math & science curriculum.
• Superior instructional methods, in a self-paced
learning environment designed to abolish social promotion
and its harms.
• Stellar teachers and professors, creating and
presenting the online courses
• Web-based technology, allowing economies of scale
and other cost efficiencies
Part of our goal is the provision of Web-based
instructional services into homes and offices where other
students can develop their K-12 skills. Thus home schooled
children and adults lacking 12th
grade
competence are to be served as well.
A more detailed description of our mission and our
strategies can be reviewed in our Strategic Plan available
from Asora's reports on development
page.
Who
We Are:
The
Stellar Schools effort was initiated by David Anderson in
2003. Since that time, a business plan was developed that
foresaw both non-profit and for-profit phases of
development. More recently we decided that sequential
phases should be replaced by parallel phases of
development. We also intend to operate most aspects of our
planning in an open source manner. In the past few months-
essentially the Spring of 2007- we have developed the plans
for the bifurcation of our efforts. With the creation of a
new website, there are now two website locations for
Stellar Schools. The one you're viewing
(StellarSchools.com) concerns the non-profit effort and the
other one (AsoraEducation.com) belongs to the for-profit
operation.
We believe we have solid plans for developing these
schools, but have yet to assemble the human and financial
assets required to proceed. Nonetheless, we believe that
our ideas and plans are of such promise that it is simply a
matter of “when,” not “if,”
concerning the launch of this kind of business.
Anderson’s unique life experiences, including those
as a student, a teacher, a research scientist, a policy
analyst, and a financial planner, have given him the
insight and conviction to confidently push the Stellar
Schools concepts forward.
For more about David Anderson see his Qualifications elsewhere
on the Website and see his recent Speech, available
in text, view-it-here
video,
or download the
viedo,
formats. It includes descriptions of some of his
relevant life experiences. More current information on
Anderson is available on the Asora website.