Education Reform Action Heroes:

The Center for Education Reform salutes all those folks beyond the Beltway who have written laws on the back of a napkin, worked tirelessly to persuade lawmakers to pass those laws, created schools, written standards, and generally challenged the conventional wisdom in the interest of making schools work better for all children. These are YOUR Action Heroes, and here are their stories.

January 2007

Action Hero: Ronald E. Johnson, Ph.D.

He designed individualized, accelerated, virtue-based textbooks with a staff training system for recovering at-risk teenagers, especially those from homes without resident dads. He has testified before the Texas State Board of Education and legislature to promote educational choice, especially the concept of none-punitive alternative schools. He conducts seminars for juvenile probation and correctional personnel who work with delinquent, fatherless boys. He has published books and articles to enhance educational choice, especially among minorities. His textbooks and individualized learning concepts are being used in more than 50 schools in eight states. He served on the state textbook selection panel and on the state academic assessment transition team.