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Ron Jones (born 1941) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his classroom exercise called "The Third Wave" and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008.
The Third Wave was an experimental movement created by the high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could have accepted the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and the Second World War.
In spring 1967, in Palo Alto, California, high school history teacher Ron Jones conducted a social experiment in fascism with his class of 10th-grade 15-year-olds, to sample the experience of the attraction and rise of the Nazis in Germany before World War II.
Aug 20, 2023 · Ron Cephas Jones, who won two Emmy Awards for his acting on the hit television drama “This Is Us,” has died at age 66, according to his manager, Dan Spilo.
In 1967, Ron Jones, a young teacher at Cubberley High School, decided to try an innovative method to teach his students about fascism. He introduced them to a movement he called The Third Wave, based on discipline and community.
Oct 14, 2008 · Schoolteacher Ron Jones's personal account of his experiment which created a proto-fascist movement amongst his high school pupils in Palo Alto, California, which in 2008 was subject of the award-winning film The Wave.
Verde Magazine interviewed Ron Jones, the creator of the Third Wave social experiment, in both 2016 and 2020 to see his differing views on how his work relat...
Aug 13, 2017 · Exclusive interview with American writer, teacher and storyteller - Ron Jones, and his former student Mark Hancock.October 17, 2014 San Francisco, Californ...
Jan 1, 2001 · The Acorn People, written by Ron Jones, is an autobiographical account of Ron's experience as a summer camp counselor. The book begins as Ron approaches his last week as a counselor, when the camp opens up to children with disabilities.
Ron Jones is often asked to explain The Wave! How did it happen? Is it like the movie? Can you teach me how to do it? He has turned down inquiry from Jim Jones of Peoples Temple to magazine editors, scholars, students, skinheads and evangelists.
