To Ken Robinson and Other Interested Professionals: I wondered if you might like to join an effort to advance Pedagogical Science and specifically Teacher Education worldwide. I recently formed a non-profit whose initial primary mission would be to identify Best Instructional Practices as the lever that might lift Professional Education to greater efficacy and prestige. Here is a copy of a recent blog addressing this issue: There is a giant flaw in Education hiding like Osama Bin Laden in plain sight. We need a transparent and systematic way to identify and vet Best Instructional Practices. This will release organic growth across all aspects of education, and from the bottom-up, one lesson at a time. There are over 2 1/2 million teachers in the USA alone. Some will be great, good and weak and yet others will be seriously misplaced. However none can be held seriously accountable for learning outcomes until a string of vested interests, from overly ideological professors to learned societies hoping to sell trendy journals and books, address the elephant in the room: lack of identification of our Best Instructional Practices. Every other profession from hair care to surgery has done so. The current problem is that no one has access to what constitutes quality teaching, nor do we seem to realize that this cannot be known…the findings lay across 80 years and tens of thousands of documents. (Asking teachers, and even professors to select the ones that will result in the greatest student progress is analogous to requiring individuals to guide their retirement investments…it is virtually impossible, 75% of professional money managers cannot do so each year.) Below are some sites addressing this flaw in logic and suggestions of two textbook that are applicable to quick starting a serious step toward Pedagogical Science (although they are far from the targeted goal): http://bestmethodsofinstruction.com/ (something of a personal story) and http://teacherprofessoraccountability.ning.com/?showAddContent=1&xg_source=msg_wel_network and http://anthony-manzo.blogspot.com/2010/05/race-to-top-accountability-leaves.html. The two books that were decades in the making and containing over 400 references each, try to honestly report what the research seems to be saying about teaching toward higher literacy at all levels, overcoming illiteracy is near meaningless without a sustainably educated indigenous population, see: Manzo/Manzo/Thomas (2009) Content Area Literacy (Wiley, Publisher) & Manzo/Manzo/Albee Reading Assessment: A Diagnostic-Teaching Approach (2004) (Cengage, Publisher). The entire globe awaits our efforts. Higher literacy, our primary goal, is more than a North African Spring, it is Liberation Education, all 4 seasons. Coming soon: The Foundation for: GlobalAdvancementOfProfessionalEducation.org. This has been a 35year slog that always seemed an easy fix. Easy hasn't happened so we are getting ready to take it on by the numbers and with personal savings. Importantly, this site will include actionable topics that rarely are even raised in state standards cut are nonetheless at the center of modern life and challenges, for example: Critical-Constructive-Creative Thinking and entrepreneurial skills – the next generations will need to invent and make jobs more so than train for and take them. Help is welcome at every level. Your comments are welcomed: tmanzo@Fullerton.edu and/or manzo174@gmail.com