Yet another national report from another reformer group, grading the states that meet their definition of what ought to be done.
Here, Mercedes Schneider, a Louisiana teacher with a Ph.D. in statistics and research methods, dissects the NCTQ state report on teacher preparation.
Dr. Schneider, a member of our honor roll, previously deconstructed the claim that charters in New Orleans had a higher graduation rate than the state or the nation.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Yes, the concerned editorial. This past week the CEO of ConnCAN (the lobbying arm of Achievement First in CT) had an op-ed piece published in the New Haven Register in which she whined about the state cutting several hundred dollars per student from the money allocated to their charters. Since the teachers in my disctrict have had their pay frozen 3 of the last 4 years and our budget is currently frozen, my heart bleeds.
And as she and her predecessors, Alex Johnston and Patrick Riccards, whined before her, we are ruining the educational reforms that these concerned citizens (not a one of whom have any educational experience) are so nobly trying to enact. It’s encouraging to see the students, parents boards of ed, and teachers finally standing up to the deceit and bullying of these well-funded groups
That’s a great analysis! It doesn’t take much investigation to discover that Michelle Rhee and Wendy Kopp are both on NCTQ’s advisory board. They have a lot of nerve telling Teacher Education how to prepare teachers when they promote placing thousands of “teachers” with only 5 weeks of training in classrooms with our most at-risk students.
We ought to start forwarding some of these posts from different bloggers to our legislators.