Rusty Olps tells us about the lesser-known roots of the modern school system, and the affects of incidentals like age-based placement and 5-day a week attendance.

INTRO: The Jubilee School Lewis Clark Christian School Kepler Education

OUTLINE: 1. The Prussian Model of Education 2. Horace Mann's Report of an Educational Tour, 1844 3. Incidentals of the Modern School 4. Diversity of learners, age-based grades, achievement-based advancement, 3-day model 5. The flipped classroom model 6. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined - Salman Kahn 7. Homeschooling, Jubilee, and Kepler 8. How parents can help improve their 5-day schools

FURTHER READING: The German Conspiracy in American Education - Gustavus Ohlinger 1919 Prussia and the German System of Education - Arthur Bott The Myth of the Common School - Charles Leslie Glenn Jr. John Taylor Gatto Disrupting Class Deschooling Society- Ivan Illich So You Want to Start a School? - Brian Daigle