Mission Possible: Synergistic Academics

About the Book

This book gives an answer to the U.S. pre-kindergarten through grade 12 academic crises which are undermining our “American” values, our academic excellence and our U.S. global positioning in the worlds of business, industry, science, technology, and finance. It begins with a chronological examination of the U.S. American education system from 1635 to today, explaining the benefits, limitations, and damages of new and numerous educational trends, fashions, fads, and dogmas that were supposed to have corrected the education system’s deficiencies. It highlights a few of the major critics who exposed the catastrophically declining results, bringing attention to the U.S. student lack of reading, math, and reasoning skills … thus resulting in millions of children (and adults) being left behind … lost … without adequate, life-functioning skills! This has not only put these students individually at risk, but has put our nation at risk … in global business, science, technology, and financial competition. Synergistic Academics (a curriculum that not only provides individualized, tailored, basic skills curriculum but also weaves together world history with American History, mathematics, language arts, introductions to 5 foreign languages, biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, music appreciation, hands-on art, research and composition, technology, engineering and robotics … all woven together into one tapestry … for all students (pre-kindergarten through grade 12). It offers a living-breathing, patriotic curriculum (proven by 35 years of nationally-standardized test results) that not only corrects the U.S. educational deficiencies but provides the tools students need to aspire to American exceptionalism.

About the Author

As a Dean’s College undergraduate, Dr. Lahr-Well studied concert piano … with major concentrations in Spanish and Italian studies. Offered a teaching assistantship at University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana, at the age of 21, Dr. Lahr-Well has now taught for 50 years at the university/college levels. Concerned about her own children’s education, Dr. Lahr-Well opened Lahr-Well Academy 35 years ago. Dr. Lahr-Well, a self-proclaimed, professional “maverick,” brings to the decades-old crises in U.S. education of continued declining test scores, accompanied by continued rising GPAs …a solution to the crises … proven with more than 35 years of nationally-standardized test results’ success!