Founder :: Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum founder and CEO Ronald E. Johnson, Ph.D. is a recognized educational innovator. He is married to Nancy (Foster). They have been happily married since college days at the University of Arizona. Both majored in education. Dr. Johnson earned two post-graduate degrees at the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. from the International Institute. He was awarded a L.L.D. from Louisiana Baptist University.

Dr. Johnson is a certified school administrator, author, seminar speaker and entrepreneur. He has conducted educational projects throughout the world, including Hispanic populations in Central and South America. He was appointed to Arizona and Texas Textbook Selection Panels and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills Review Panel. He was among the first entrepreneurs to design and operate for-profit store-front contract schools in Texas.

Dr. Johnson founded Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum (PAC) because he saw a need for a learning environment and curriculum that addresses problems related to underperforming schools, fatherless students, and declining virtues, while allowing students to work at a pace best suited for them as individuals.

Dr. Johnson grew up in a dysfunctional at-risk family with an abusive father. Both parents were violently murdered when Ronald was a teenager. An older brother was murdered a few years later for an insurance contract. Jobs as forest ranger, clerk in a gun store and bookkeeper in a citrus packing plant helped pay for college expenses and a B.A. Degree. Teaching and administrative jobs in public and private schools provided experience that earned awards and respect. Dr. Johnson was listed in Who's Who in Arizona Education, published Three R's and A Big Hug through Economics Press, was among the top 60 educators in America sponsored by the Ford Foundation. He was a public school Administrator before age 30. He helped develop and administer a large textbook publishing company for 21 years. He has published and/or conducted seminars on such timely subjects as "Working With Single Parent Moms," "Educating At-Risk Youth," "Why Standards?," "Helping Hyperactive Teens," "Individualized Learning," "Starting and Operating a Charter or Contract School," "How to Make a Man of a Boy", "Six Principles of Education," and "Harriet Tubman's Other Railroad." He was a featured guest on 60 Minutes with Harry Reasoner. USA Today newspaper recognized Dr. Johnson's school as among America's top 50 effective programs for recovering at-risk youth.

Dr. Johnson is a member of: National Association of Independent Businesses, Association of American Educators, and Small Publishers Association of North America. He served as president of the Dublin Rotary Club. His family is active in a local Baptist Church. He serves on the Boy Scouts Commanche Trail Council in central Texas.

The Center for Educational Reform (CER) listed Dr. Johnson among America's "Action Heroes" in recognition of his achievements in educational reform.

Ronald E. Johnson, Ph.D.
Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum & System (PAC)
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Dublin. Texas 76446
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