by Barry Dennis

Created on: January 21, 2010   Last Updated: January 23, 2010

  They Can All Be Geniuses

Here's the problem; Joey in New York goes to school under New York standards that make Joey in the top 10% of students nationally. Mike in Mississippi goes to school with locally mandated standards, also modified by "No Child Left Behind", but is in the lowest 10% of students nationally.  Both are educated under a national standard for some aspects of their education, but markedly different standards based on local politics, unions and other  forces.   How does that make sense? 

 Educational academics, politicians, parents, and teachers struggle with ideas like "What are the right Standards?"    Why? Because the U.S. is being surpassed rapidly by educational achievement of students in other countries, even countries whose education systems were minimal as recently as a generation ago. We even import hundreds of thousands of talented engineers, scientists, technicians, researchers, managers and others because the U.S. can't and hasn't developed enough of our own people to fill the demand.   

There's a new education model coming, one based on standards that are formulated for a global economy. High, measurable standards in the Sciences, in Reading Comprehension, in Thinking and Reasoning ability, in the Humanities, in Philosophy, and in all the knowledge and thinking processes of a Millennium Student. It can and should be universal in application; complete in practice. Teachers and others who fight these necessary standards are on the wrong end of the sword; they will be, must be, replaced with educators who revel in exceeding any standard, who would like nothing more than having their entire class be one hundred percent college graduates; better still graduate and PhD degree earners.  

Technology-based education, even based on Cloud-education at home are definite avenues. In that case standards are meaningless; most children will achieve at levels far beyond any envisioned standards.  How? Because the great equalizer of mediocrity can't and won't hold back most children whose Curiosity Quotient (CQ), drives their IQ, and their achievement to levels such that many could graduate college  at age 16 , with graduate degrees at 18 or 19, PhD's at 22 or 23.   

Computer-assisted, Artificial Intelligence Interactive education, programmed learning, advances a pupil based on their achievement and comprehension, individually, not as a group weighted by the

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