Welcome to the personal website of Jack Taub.
Welcome to the personal website of Jack Taub.
You have most certainly ended up here with at least one question on your mind, "Who was Jack Taub?" This website will answer that question and more. Come discover who Jack Taub was and why you should know his name. Prior to his passing in April of 2011, Jack built and inspired a team of educators and leaders from industry, government and the public sector to work with him in pursuit of his vision.
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Jack Taub, proclaimed by Venture Magazine as one of America's most successful entrepreneurs, had an incredible impact on American technology. This incredible impact began in the late 1970s. Jack Taub, pioneered the consumer online industry in 1977 creating The Source, which became the model for the consumerization of the Internet and cloud computing. He watched the profound impact the technology had on his child who was born physically challenged. After selling The Source to Reader's Digest, in 1980, Mr. Taub decided to dedicate his life and fortune to educate children with special needs. He discovered that special needs children were required by law to have an individualized education plan (IEP).
It quickly became apparent to Mr. Taub, who never graduated from high school, that virtually every child receiving a K-12 education is socially or economically disabled in the sense that schools are not providing them the knowledge and skills necessary to earn a living and be successful in a global marketplace. His solution was to customize education for every student and eliminate student boredom - one of the main causes of high student dropout rates.
This plan would accomplish his goal by making every classroom an intellectual Disneyland so that children would want to attend school, rather than have to attend. In 1982, he committed his life to this goal; vowing not to move forward with this solution unless he could be certain that all the elements were in place to lead to the transformed system of his dreams. And so began one of the longest and most complex journeys in this nation's history. Jack fulfilled his vision for digital utilities, and has moved on to another, bringing American education into the 21st century. He dedicated the last thirty years of his life to achieving that goal, and was absolutely serious about creating a better tomorrow for our children.
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It quickly became apparent to Mr. Taub, who never graduated from high school, that virtually every child receiving a K-12 education is socially or economically disabled in the sense that schools are not providing them the knowledge and skills necessary to earn a living and be successful in a global marketplace. His solution was to customize education for every student and eliminate student boredom - one of the main causes of high student dropout rates.
This plan would accomplish his goal by making every classroom an intellectual Disneyland so that children would want to attend school, rather than have to attend. In 1982, he committed his life to this goal; vowing not to move forward with this solution unless he could be certain that all the elements were in place to lead to the transformed system of his dreams. And so began one of the longest and most complex journeys in this nation's history. Jack fulfilled his vision for digital utilities, and has moved on to another, bringing American education into the 21st century. He dedicated the last thirty years of his life to achieving that goal, and was absolutely serious about creating a better tomorrow for our children.
